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What is 4R Nutrient Stewardship?

By Alexis Stockford March 7, 2017

Manitoba is not like other agriculture areas looking to implement 4R, the room heard during the latest 4R Nutrient Stewardship training workshop in Brandon Feb. 23. The four Rs (right nutrient source applied at the right rate at the right time in the right place) form the backbone of Fertilizer Canada’s campaign to balance environmental

Global warming will mean a longer growing season and more forage production — as long as there’s enough water.

Livestock, Weather

‘Change’ is the watchword in a warming world, says researcher

Longer summers and milder winters sound nice, but even the pluses come with some negatives

By Alexis Kienlen March 7, 2017

How will the Canadian cattle industry fare if global temperatures continue to rise? Count a reduced feed demand, a longer grazing season, and higher forage production among the benefits — but also expect more extreme weather, pests, and transport headaches, according to University of Manitoba research scientist Kim Ominski. “We know the future of our

John Heard, crop nutrition specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, reports on phosphorus deficiency in soil and best practices during the recent 4R Nutrient Stewardship training in Brandon.

Crops, Local news

The phosphorus conundrum: low soil levels meet Lake Winnipeg pressures

Experts weigh in on managing low phosphorus levels in soil, while minimizing water health impact

By Alexis Stockford March 6, 2017

Manitoba is in a difficult position of simultaneously having too much phosphorus and not enough. Manitoba Agriculture crop nutrition specialist John Heard highlighted this contradiction recently during a recent presentation at a nutrient stewardship workshop, noting phosphorus buildup in the Lake Winnipeg watershed has been a source of long-standing tension between regulators and agriculture. A

Weather

Global warming and manufactured doubt

Debate in peer-reviewed science about human-induced warming has been over for ages

By Daniel Bezte February 22, 2017

Several years ago, Weather Underground’s co-founder Jeff Masters wrote a blog about the manufactured doubt industry, how and when it was created, and how it now plays into the current global warming or climate change controversy. At the time I emailed Jeff Masters asking permission to use some of the information from his blog in

Melting glaciers are a clear sign of climate change and global warming

Weather

Jumping off the global warming fence

If we take action now, the worst that happens is we clean up our planet

By Daniel Bezte February 15, 2017

Over the years, some weather articles I’ve written have provoked or inspired various amounts of comments. What surprised me was the number of emails I received about the top weather events from around the world in 2016. What was surprising, in particular, was that several of the emails accused me of leaning too heavily toward

The U.S. renewable fuel standard is just one of many things on hold as the new U.S. administration takes power.

News

In Trump freeze, U.S. agencies delay rules affecting farms

The move creates an air of uncertainty surrounding key provisions, such as the U.S. renewable fuel standard

By Chris Prentice, Tom Polansek February 8, 2017

U.S. regulators under the new presidential administration have instituted a freeze on rules key to the country’s Farm Belt, agricultural groups said Jan. 26, heightening uncertainty for some of the regions that helped propel Donald Trump into office. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will delay implementation of this year’s biofuels requirements along with 29 other regulations

Climate change-fuelled drought could hit U.S. yields hard this century, researchers say.

Did you know?, News

Climate change is poised to hit U.S. harvests

The latest models suggest many key crops could suffer  significant yield losses in the coming decades

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 30, 2017

Dutch researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change have published a paper in the journal Nature that says U.S. crop yields could be hard hit as the world warms. To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will likely impact wheat, corn and soybean, an international team of scientists ran

News

Ottawa needs to get serious about encouraging renewable fuels

A constantly churning industry with various provincial standards  isn’t a good foundation for growth, proponents say

By Alex Binkley January 25, 2017

If the federal government wants to see renewable fuels attracting investment and growing, it needs to set a national standard and provide stability. That’s according to Warren Mabee, public policy professor at Queen’s University, speaking at the Renewable Fuels Canada Forum, held recently in Ottawa. Sticking with the existing provincial standards means every province goes

The view of ruins that once formed the centre of the Roman Empire from the rooftop terrace of the UN FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. The empire failed for many reasons, but declining health of its population was among them.

News

Radical transformation of food system needed

The focus of future investments in the food system must be on nutrition — not calories

By Laura Rance-Unger January 6, 2017

From its offices overlooking centuries-old ruins of the fallen Roman Empire, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is grappling with an issue many consider a threat to modern civilization. Global rates of malnutrition are growing at an unprecedented pace, despite progress that has been made reducing hunger and poverty. Sandwiched between the two extremes

Farm land owner Boris Michaleski (left) and IMCD technician Aaron Kulbacki stand at one of two dry dam sites constructed earlier this year on Michaleski’s farm land to temporarily hold back water during peak flows.

Local news, Weather

Farm-based dry dams to help reduce downstream flooding

Intermountain Conservation District built two dry dams in 2016 on a  Keld-area farm that will hold water temporarily on farmland – the landowner sees gains from doing so

By Lorraine Stevenson December 19, 2016

Road washouts, soil erosion and other water-related damage are nothing new to any municipality, but some parts of Manitoba are especially vulnerable. Those living and farming around Riding Mountain National Park are all too familiar with the kind of havoc water rushing downstream creates. With the steepest slopes in the province in their region, Inter-Mountain

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

Tag Archives Environmental issues

What is 4R Nutrient Stewardship?

‘Change’ is the watchword in a warming world, says researcher

The phosphorus conundrum: low soil levels meet Lake Winnipeg pressures

Global warming and manufactured doubt

Jumping off the global warming fence

In Trump freeze, U.S. agencies delay rules affecting farms

Climate change is poised to hit U.S. harvests

Ottawa needs to get serious about encouraging renewable fuels

Radical transformation of food system needed

Farm-based dry dams to help reduce downstream flooding

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