Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson interviewed Bruce Murray June 23 about Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready Xtend soybeans, which will be available to Manitoba farmers next spring if, as expected, China approves them.
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VIDEO: Roundup Ready Xtend soybeans and the fight against herbicide resistance
Monsanto’s glyphosate and dicamba tolerant soybeans will help in delaying glyphosate resistant weeds says DEKALB agronomist Bruce Murray
VIDEO: Roundup Ready Xtend crop system for soybeans, avoiding spray drift
Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready Xtend soybeans are glyphosate and dicamba tolerant. Here are some tips on avoiding dicamba drift
Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson spoke with DEKALB agronomist Bruce Murray June 23 about Monsanto’s new Roundup Ready Xtend soybeans. Monsanto’s technical development representative Allan Froese also demonstrated how different nozzles affect spray droplet size.
Manitoba overhauling Noxious Weeds Act
Noxious weeds will be listed in three tiers with control action based on the threat to agriculture and natural areas
The Manitoba government is overhauling one of the oldest laws on its books — the Noxious Weeds Act — to bring it into line with current weed threats in the province. If passed, Bill 32, the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, will put into statute much of what is already common practice — controlling weeds commiserate
Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 8
Conditions as of June 21
Weekly Provincial Summary The good growing conditions are benefiting crops across Manitoba. Areas in the Northwest Region would benefit from additional precipitation as symptoms of moisture stress are evident in some fields. Herbicide applications continue. Fungicide applications are also on-going, largely in winter wheat and spring wheat crops, for management of leaf diseases and fusarium
Retirement project reinforces need for conserving natural land
Retired dairy farmer Gord Hammell is redoing a breeding bird survey he did in the 1970s, documenting changes to local land, water and wildlife
Gord Hammell came to Manitoba over 40 years ago to count ducks, and after a long interval milking cows, he’s counting again. The University of Guelph science student arrived in 1970 to do summer research for his master’s thesis on lesser scaup, a waterfowl also called “little bluebill” whose numbers have long been in decline.
Expecting an early cereal harvest? Try growing a cover crop
A nitrogen boost is just one of many benefits of adding cover crops to the rotation
In many parts of Manitoba spring cereals were seeded early this year, and harvest may occur directly after winter wheat harvest. An early harvest means that there may still be two months of warm weather between harvest and freeze-up — warmth that could be used to grow a late-season cover crop. Cover crops are known
Flax farmers sought for French delegation
There is potential for more flax processing in Manitoba
Riverton-based Erosion Control Blanket (ECB) is sending 15 tonnes of Manitoba flax fibre and a delegation of Manitoba growers to France to explore the prospects for more processing in Manitoba. The flax fibre will be put through a decortication process, which separates the fibre from the woody core, and then processed into a mat that
Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 6
Conditions as of June 7
Weekly Provincial Summary Seeding operations are wrapping up for the 2015 season in Manitoba with progress estimated at 97 per cent complete. Crop types remaining to be seeded include canola and greenfeed. Reseeding of canola fields impacted by frost, insect activity, wind and excess moisture conditions is still occurring. Producers are also busy with herbicide
Tank mixing weed killers helps delay herbicide-resistant weeds
But don’t forget to rotate crops, including fall seeded and perennials, advises AAFC’s Hugh Beckie
Tank mixing two herbicides with different modes of action targeting the same weed is a good way to delay the development of herbicide-resistent weeds, a study by weed scientists at the University of Illinois and United States Department of Agriculture concludes. “We don’t say that mixing is the end-all solution,” study co-author Pat Tranel of
Human security at risk as depletion of soil accelerates, scientists warn
Change is needed so that valuable, non-renewable fertilizers are recycled
Steadily and alarmingly, humans have been depleting Earth’s soil resources faster than the nutrients can be replenished. If this trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with the effects of climate change, will present a huge risk to global food security over the next century, warns a review paper authored by some of the top
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