The art of slow feeding horses

The art of slow feeding horses

Get started with slow feeding in your horse’s routine: Here’s what to expect and the benefits horse owners can anticipate

Slow feeding horses: How to get started, what to expect and the benefits horse owners can expect to see when hay is no longer getting eaten all at once.

A cow leads her calf to higher ground near Vogar, Man., in 2011 as Lake Manitoba over flows onto surrounding ranch land.

Manitoba beef producers still feeling the 2011 flood, 14 years later

It’s been 14 years since flooding submerged pastures and hay fields around Lake Manitoba and other parts of western Manitoba, but beef producers can still count their cost from the disaster

It’s been 14 years since flooding submerged pastures and hay fields around Lake Manitoba and other parts of western Manitoba, but beef producers can still count their cost from the disaster.


Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn (left) and Premier Wab Kinew (center) announce Crown land rent changes in 2023.

No auctions this year for forage Crown land

The province says they’re taking more time to review how changes have impacted Agricultural Crown Lands used for haying or grazing

The Manitoba government says forage Crown land lease auctions are paused this year as they review how changes have impacted Agricultural Crown Lands used for haying or grazing

Hay is cut west of Holland July 8. Many first cuts were delayed by rain but final harvest numbers were good.

Winter feed supplies a good news story

Producers are urged to test for quality, but hay yields Prairie-wide broke the drought cycle in 2024

From Manitoba to Alberta, grazing sectors got a reprieve on their hay and forage yield volumes this year, although moisture delays earlier in the season slowed Manitoba harvest and producers are urged to test for feed quality.



The study focuses on the effects of both a nurse crop and application of starter phosphorus with the goal of helping producers achieve better long-term growth and higher yields.

How to get a better hay yield

Research suggests higher phosphorus, no oat nurse crop during stand establishment for long-term yield

Research suggests higher phosphorus, no oat nurse crop during forage stand establishment for better hay yields.


photo: NDSU

Hay prices, supply steady for now

FEED | Producers in some parts of the province will be buying hay this winter

Areas across Manitoba may be hard up for hay and feed, but those watching the market say there’s good supply available for purchase and prices have yet to rise significantly. Ads for new-crop and carryover forage are plentiful, said John MacGregor, forage expert with the Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association, and prices have been fairly

Barry Janssens was among the producers worried about encroaching water levels from Whitewater Lake in 2020.

Sweet and salty: Using sweet clover to fight salinity

Producers use salt-tolerant forage to claw back productivity on previously flooded land

East of Deloraine, in the far southwestern corner of Manitoba, waves of yellow sweet clover are reclaiming farmland that, three years ago, was under the waves of Whitewater Lake. A road runs near the field planted with the legume, a raised snake of land that, in 2019, would have been surrounded by water. In August,


As combines roll across the province, the expected highly variable yield picture is emerging.

Variable moisture, variable yields as harvest in Manitoba begins

Early reports say spring wheat crops are rated mostly fair to good; some producers report below-average or average yields

Variability was the name of the game as spring wheat harvest began in the third week of August. “This is the most variable I can remember,” said Clayton Harder. He has fields around the north side of Winnipeg and said he has soybeans that are ankle high and others that are waist high. One field

Table 3: Percentage Harvest Completion by Crop and Region to Aug. 15, 2023 (crops still unharvested, or negligible acres displayed as – or omitted from this table).

Harvest in Manitoba at three per cent, wheat crop mostly fair to good

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 14 (week 33)

Overview  Harvest progress sits at 3 per cent complete across the province (table above), which is on-par with the 5-year average harvest progress. Winter wheat and fall rye harvest continues, with 67 per cent of acres harvested. Early yield reports for winter wheat are averaging about 60 bu/acre. Harvest has started in spring cereal crops,