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Best In The West

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 17, 2011

AC Metcalfe, a two-row malting barley variety, is the winner of Seed of the Year – West in 2010, the Western Grains Research Foundation has announced. Part of the western award is a scholarship for $4,000 awarded to a student enrolled in a western Canadian university and currently completing a masters or PhD in plant

Crops

Mosaic Offers Fertility Uptake Guide

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 17, 2011

The Mosaic Company has developed a website offering soil fertility information and resources. It can be found at www.Back-to- Basics.net. Back-to-Basics is an ongoing initiative that helps keep growers and those who influence fertilizer management decisions informed about nutrient uptake levels, critical trends in soil fertility, the importance of proper crop nutrition and new crop

Crops, Forages

No-Tillers Tap Benefits Of Underground Livestock

By Daniel Winters February 17, 2011

North Dakota grain farmer Glenn Bauer is reaping the benefits of “livestock” in his operation – but you’d need a microscope to see most of them. “We don’t have any cows, but we’ve got a lot of livestock that we try to feed below the surface,” Bauer said during a panel presentation on no-till soil

News, Oilseeds

KAP Willing To Continue Paying For RR1 Soybeans

By Ron Friesen February 10, 2011

Manitoba farmers have expressed willingness to continue paying Monsanto to grow Roundup Ready soybeans even after the patent on them expires. A resolution passed at the recent Keystone Agricultural Producers annual meeting in Winnipeg calls on KAP to “lobby Monsanto to allow Manitoba farmers to continue to grow Roundup Ready 1 soybeans under a user

Cereals, News

Weeds Shift To Meet New Farming Practices

By Daniel Winters February 10, 2011

The widespread adoption of zero or minimum tillage has led to subtle changes in weed populations in Manitoba, according to the provincial weed specialist, Nasir Shaihk. In the 1970s, when tillage was widespread, the top three weeds were volunteer barley, dog mustard and field horsetail. An examination of weed survey results stretching back over the

Crops, Forages

Properly Done, Organic Grain Is A Money-Maker

By Daniel Winters February 10, 2011

Narrow rows, early seeding, and heavier seeding rates are just some of the strategies organic farmer Ian Cushon uses to fight weeds on his 3,600-acre organic farm on the fringes of the black soil zone near Oxbow, Sask. “In terms of weed management and crop competition, seeding equipment I think is the most important equipment

Crops

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By Daniel Winters February 10, 2011

espite all of mankind’s ingenuity, the weeds, it seems, always win in the end. Monsanto once boasted Roundup-resistant weeds were “highly unlikely” to be found, but now strains of glyphosateresistant giant ragweed can be seen growing 18 feet tall in Ontario cornfields, and some biotypes of rigid ryegrass in Australia have become immune to virtually

News

Changing Of The Guard At Deerwood

By Laura Rance-Unger February 3, 2011

Local lore has it that one of the reasons Bill Turner devoted more than two decades of his life to seemingly mundane tasks such as capping off abandoned wells dates back to his childhood. As a nine-year-old, Turner was peering down an old well shaft when a mischievous older schoolboy gave him a little nudge

Country Crossroads

Success With Streptocarpella

By Albert Parsons February 3, 2011

Many gardeners overwinter plants from their outdoor gardens with the hope of using them outdoors again the following summer. Most of us have boxes of bulbs and tubers tucked away in cool, dark spots for the winter, pots of bulbs kept dormant, as well as several parent plants we attempt to keep alive on windowsills

Crops

Between-Row Spraying Good Option, But Challenges Must Be Overcome

By Alexis Kienlen February 3, 2011

Spraying herbicides between rows to hit the weeds and not the crop could give producers more bang for their weed-control buck, but more research is needed, says Agriculture Canada research scientist Tom Wolf. Inter-row spraying has caught on in Australia, where farmers use hooded sprayers to apply non-select herbicide between rows. Wolf, an expert in

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Tag Archives Land management

Best In The West

Mosaic Offers Fertility Uptake Guide

No-Tillers Tap Benefits Of Underground Livestock

KAP Willing To Continue Paying For RR1 Soybeans

Weeds Shift To Meet New Farming Practices

Properly Done, Organic Grain Is A Money-Maker

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Changing Of The Guard At Deerwood

Success With Streptocarpella

Between-Row Spraying Good Option, But Challenges Must Be Overcome

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