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Crops, International news

Kenyan farmers profit from the sun to water crops

Drip irrigation requires a costly upfront investment, but it pays for itself in a relatively short time

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For subsistence farmers in rain-scarce Kenya, drip irrigation can mean the difference between hand-to-mouth survival and being able to grow an agricultural business like Alice Migwi’s. She now has three full-time employees, an expanding plot of land, and enough surplus produce to sell to restaurants and hotels after harvest. “A drip system is perhaps the
world war 2 department of labour notice
Our History

Victory in Europe, economy on the homefront

Our History: October & November 1945

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The Second World War had ended with victory in Europe declared in May and in Japan in August of 1945, but the lingering effects were still clear in our fall issues of 1945. This advertisement in the Oct. 1 issue advised how armed forces personnel could apply to be released for farm work. Economizing was
soil tiller equipment for farming
Opinion

Saline soils, plant growth problems linked to tillage practices

Research on saline soils underway, but at least one cause points to over-tilling

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Here in the Red River basin, most fields in crop production are tilled one or more times each year, whether with cultivators, disks or deep tillers. The resulting fields look well cared for — good farming is often associated with well-tilled fields. In many places in the basin, however, farmers are noticing areas of fields
a herd of cattle in the snow
Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock

Building winter cattle feed rations that won’t wreck your bottom line

Improving your feeding efficiency and reducing waste can help you 
save money overwintering your cattle this year

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Despite record-high cattle prices and strong demand for beef, margins remain tight for cattle producers who are battling the high price of land and feed. But cattle feeders can widen their margins as they head into winter by taking measures to improve feed efficiency and reduce waste right now. “To prepare your cattle for winter,
cattle feeding at a trough
Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock, Local news

Cattle producers have forage concerns after wet season

High nitrate levels in frost-stressed crops can be fatal for cattle

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Cattle producers should test their feed this year because wet weather has compromised the nutritional value in late-seeded cereal crops, and cold weather could make them potentially dangerous, a provincial forage specialist says. “We’re quite concerned about nitrates this year after the stress that the plants have been under all summer and then with the recent
chickens in a modern barn
Opinion

A sustainable food supply is a worthy goal, but beware of simplistic solutions

Intensive, large-scale production employing the latest technology is key to feeding a hungry world

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The view that we need to change how we produce food in the name of sustainability has become ubiquitous in Canada and other developed countries. Indeed, spurred on by the perceptions of some consumers, the food industry has become keenly interested in how farmers produce food. They want to know about their carbon footprint; animal
Forages and grasslands are not just about cattle and hay, they also provide a major environmental benefit for all Canadians.  
top and above photo: Canadian Forage and Grassland Association
Forages, Livestock

The fight for the future of forages

There has been a dramatic drop in forage research, but it’s not just because producers could make more money growing canola

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What’s Canada largest crop? The usual answer is “wheat,” which in 2012 was seeded on about 20 million acres. But that year, cultivated forages made up 33 million acres, and more than 36 million acres were in native or unimproved pastures and rangeland. Yet farmers who manage grasslands and forage fields say their industry is
Southwest Manitoba has traditionally been considered part of the semi-arid Palliser Triangle. Today Wade (l) and Ryan Flannery are among the area farmers whose fields are sprouting cattails, not crops.  Photo: Meghan Mast
Crops, News

Southwestern Manitoba — semi-arid to semi-fluid

Dedicated minimum- and zero-till farmers are now dragging out tillage 
equipment that’s been in store for years

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When Ryan and Wade Flannery began working on the drilling rigs to supplement grain farming, they did not imagine that several years later they would be working for oil companies year round. “We (initially) went to the drilling rigs for something to do for the winter and now it’s turned into a full-time deal,” said
Brian Harper says he’s doubled the carrying capacity of his pastures by 
using a high stock density system.
Forages, Livestock

Get in line and move on — grazing an acre at a time

Switching to a high stock density system with 128 paddocks instead of 16


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I call it my ‘big red swather,’” Brian Harper told a group of cattle producers visiting his farm near here last August. Harper smiled and as if on cue, 63,550 lbs. of his herd of Shaver Beefblend/Lincoln Red cattle started munching their way down one of his field’s narrow one-acre grazing paddocks. “Up to 2013,
New project aims to put soil at scientific forefront
Opinion

New project aims to put soil at scientific forefront

Soil health not a new topic, but it’s been taken for granted

The U.S. National Farm Foundation and The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation have launched a new website with a strategic plan for its Soil Renaissance Project launched on World Soil Day on 2013. When the average person inventories humanity’s most precious resources, soil rarely makes the list. Yet without soil there is no agriculture, no food

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