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Wetland restoration in Pembina Valley ‘a rarity,’ said CD officials

About 160 acres have been converted back to wetland after the landowners farming it saw more advantage using the acres to hold water than farming it at a loss

By Lorraine Stevenson November 14, 2017

Brenda and Cliff Seward had known for a long while a certain piece of farmland wasn’t very productive — but they kept on cultivating it anyways. This was about 40 acres, once slough, and drained more than 30 years ago, explains Brenda who farms southwest of Morden in the Kaleida area. Read more: A watershed

Wetland loss continues to grow at an alarming rate and Ducks Unlimited Canada says compensating farmers for environmental services could slow and even reverse that trend.

News

Compensate farmers for environmental good: Ducks Unlimited

The conservation group has told the Senate agriculture committee protecting wetlands requires funding

By Alex Binkley March 7, 2017

The next Agriculture Policy Framework needs to compensate farmers and landowners who embrace environmentally sustainable land management, Ducks Unlimited Canada has told the Senate agriculture committee. Otherwise the alarming loss of wetlands and other critical wildlife habitat will continue its upward spiral, Scott Stephens, DUC’s director of regional operations for the Prairie region told the

The state of Minnesota has made buffer zones mandatory as a way of protecting streams from nutrient run-off. But a Manitoba researcher says they may not be as effective as first believed.

Crops

New research raises red flag over buffer strips

A University of Manitoba researcher says riparian buffer  strips may not be the answer to preventing nutrient run-off

By Julienne Isaacs April 5, 2016

New research from the University of Manitoba raises questions over the effectiveness of buffer strips often used around cropland to filter out nutrients before they reach waterways in run-off. David Lobb, senior research chair for the Watershed Systems Research Program and a University of Manitoba soil science professor, says riparian buffer strips are “highly inefficient”

Wetland undergoing restoration to retain additional water in the basin.

Livestock, Local news

Wetland restoration relies on farmer participation

MHHC is seeking more landowners interested in wetland restoration on their property,  something that can benefit them and those downstream

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 23, 2016

A Deloraine-area wetland restoration project is showing how farmers can work with habitat organizations to alleviate downstream flooding, while retaining water for their own use. The Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation project, on properties owned by Gord Weidenhamer and Glenn Scott, is restoring a 32-acre wetland that was drained years ago by previous owners. Weidenhamer said

After a decade of experimentation with equipment and processes, cattail harvesting is poised to move beyond the pilot project stage.

Local news

Cattail harvesting shows promise to aid province’s water woes

The cattail-harvesting project taking place at Pelly’s Lake sees progress in extracting overloaded nutrients and processing  the biomass crop

By Jennifer Paige December 17, 2015

Ten years after a research team first considered harvesting cattails in Manitoba, one of the lead researchers remains as enthusiastic as ever about its environmental and economic potential. “Essentially, we have been working on this for the past 10 years. When we set out it was a small project looking at how cattails and reeds

The red-belted bumblebee, shown here visiting a lupine, is among the species shown to be “responding very badly” to climate changes across continents. (Jeremy Kerr photo)

Livestock, Weather

Study of bumblebee decline points to climate ‘vise’

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News July 9, 2015

A study of the shrinking range of bumblebee habitat suggests farmers relying on those species to pollinate crops may soon have to look elsewhere, barring a reversal of climate change — or, perhaps, an “assisted migration.” An international study of specimens from 31 species of bumblebees in North America and 36 such species in Europe, as

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Good weather pushes Alberta harvest along

Tag Archives Habitat

Wetland restoration in Pembina Valley ‘a rarity,’ said CD officials

Compensate farmers for environmental good: Ducks Unlimited

New research raises red flag over buffer strips

Wetland restoration relies on farmer participation

Cattail harvesting shows promise to aid province’s water woes

Study of bumblebee decline points to climate ‘vise’

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