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Dale Alderson (l) and Don Campbell of Intel Seed beside the company’s seven-chute AMVT optical sorter.
Crops, News

Optical sorters can add value to grain by taking bad stuff out

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Optical sorters, used to remove unwanted material in grain, are constantly improving and becoming more affordable, says Dale Alderson of Intel Seed. Nowadays a sorter can remove nearly 100 per cent of the ergot in a cereal crop, take wild oats out of tame ones and dramatically reduce the percentage of fusarium-damaged kernels in wheat.
Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 14
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 14

Conditions as of August 4, 2015

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Winter wheat and fall rye harvest is underway in Manitoba. Preliminary reports indicate winter wheat yields range from 60 to 85 bu/acre, with low levels of fusarium damaged kernels in harvested samples. There are also a few fields of spring wheat, barley and field peas harvested last week. Swathing or preharvest applications in the earliest-seeded spring
A severe thunderstorm the afternoon of Saturday June 27 hit near the Roseisle area west of Carman. Many fields in the area were destroyed or damaged by hail including this soybean field at the Junction of PR 240 and 245.
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 9

Conditions as of June 29

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Weekly Provincial Summary Severe weather systems containing strong winds, heavy rains and hail passed through isolated areas in several Regions of Manitoba. Damage to crops from hail and strong winds range from light to severe with assessments continuing over the next several days. However, overall good growing conditions continue to advance crops, as well as allowing
fusarium head blight risk in Manitoba
Cereals, Local news

Fusarium Head Blight report for Manitoba

Maps show current FHB risk and how it's evolved over the past week

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Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) has released its latest FHB Risk Map of the season, now posted on the MAFRD website. The map shows the fusarium head blight risk for June 16th based on precipitation and temperature data from the last seven days. A second map displays an animation of the last 7 days to show how
Pupae and larva of redbacked cutworm
Crops, Local news

Manitoba crop insect and disease update – June 9, 2015

Flea beetles in canola and cutworms are the insects of most concern

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Summary Flea beetles in canola and cutworms continue to be the insects of greatest concern. Insecticide applications and some reseeding have occurred because of feeding by these insects. Monitor emerging crops for seedling disease. So far populations of disease vectors have been low. Aphid vectors of barley yellow dwarf have not been seen or reported, and only small populations of
mature winter wheat crop
Cereals, Opinion

Canada’s wheat yield gains compare well to world

In Manitoba from 2000 to 2012, wheat yield gains outpaced 
those for canola


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There have been opinions expressed in the media claiming the rate of yield gain for wheat in Western Canada is low compared to that of the rest of the world. However, a survey of the data suggests that’s not the case. Rob Graf, a wheat breeder with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Lethbridge Research Centre, says
man at presentation podium
Crops, Local news

On-farm scientific research saves Westman producers big bucks

What started off as a way to answer questions on one farm has evolved 
into a research business other farmers can access

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Adam Gurr says he and his partners have discovered a way to save more than a million dollars over their farming career, and they’re sharing it with others. Gurr, who farms 4,800 acres near Rapid City and Brandon with his father Barry and brother-in-law Stephen Vajdic, isn’t peddling a miracle product. Their money-saving discovery is
handful of grain
Cereals, Crops

Visually assessing grain quality more challenging this year

Falling numbers are down but still good, says the CGC’s David Hatcher


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The visual factors grain inspectors use to estimate falling number and vomitoxin in wheat are never exact, but this year there’s even more variation than usual, says Norm Woodbeck, manager, agri operations with Intertek Commodities Services, a private grain-grading company. “This has driven the industry to do a lot of testing (for the toxin deoxynivalenol)
Norm Woodbeck, former chief grain inspector
Cereals, Crops

Representative sample critical in grading grain

Norm Woodbeck also says the U.S. and Canadian wheat-grading systems 
are as different as apples and oranges

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Playing the grain-grading game successfully starts with collecting a truly representative sample from your crop, the former chief grain inspector for Canada told farmers meeting here recently. It also requires understanding the differences between Canada and the U.S. grading systems, said Norm Woodbeck, who retired from the Canadian Grain Commission in 2011 and now works
wheat sorting in a grain facility
Cereals, Crops

Cigi testing fusarium damage-control technology

New equipment shows promise for sorting fusarium kernels out of wheat and durum


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Cigi researchers are working with two technologies that show promise for upgrading fusarium-damaged grain. In partnership with the University of Saskatchewan, the institute has spent three years investigating the possibilities of near-infrared spectroscopy using a Swedish-designed BoMill. The institute has also been looking at the use of optical sorters, and presented both technologies at a

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