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Letters – for Mar. 3, 2011

March 3, 2011

In “Delaying the drainage” (editorial, Feb. 3) you referred to the Red River Basin report about storing water upstream, with an estimated 885,000 acres of one foot of storage being adequate to reduce peak levels. This probably wouldn’t take up 885,000 acres because some storage would be more than one foot deep, but nonetheless it

Livestock

Equipment Sales Tell Farm Story

By Gus Trompiz March 3, 2011

Farm machine sales are showing a divide in French agriculture, with grain growers stepping up investments after a price rally but struggling livestock farmers still holding back, a Deere &Co. manager said. Crop farmers were being much more careful, however, in choosing products after experiencing a market surge in 2007-08 followed by a downturn, Jean-Francois

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

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

Livestock

Leave More Grass, Make More Money

By Daniel Winters January 13, 2011

Graziers are quick to tear up pastures, plant the latest “wondergrass,” dump truckloads of fertilizer onto their paddocks or install irrigation in the name of boosting pasture productivity. But many overlook the one strategy they can implement to boost their productivity at little or no cost, says Jim Gerrish, an independent grazing lands consultant from

Opinion

Environment And Agriculture: Talking The Talk Or Walking The Walk

By Les Mcewan January 6, 2011

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Lake Winnipeg Basin Summit has come and gone, and I think most participants would agree that it was a resounding success. To quote IISD director Hank Venema, “This summit has moved us closer to a unified effort under the umbrella leadership of IISD.” The issues surrounding the degraded level

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Drought In U.S. Winter Wheat Fields Worries Experts

By Carey Gillam December 16, 2010

U.S. wheat experts are growing increasingly concerned about the new winter wheat crop in parts of top producer Kansas and other Plains states, as persistently dry conditions erode production potential. Drought conditions are plaguing the entire western third of Kansas, which routinely is the top U.S. wheat-growing state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a

Cereals, Crops, News

Risk Of Unseeded Acres Looms Again For 2011

By Ron Friesen December 2, 2010

Western Canada could see a lot of unseeded cropland again next year because of an excessively wet summer and a possible snowy winter. Up to five million acres in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta could go unseeded in 2011 because of wet conditions, said Bruce Burnett, Canadian Wheat Board director of weather and market analysis. It’s

Cereals, Crops, News

U.S. Plains Rain Provides Little Relief To Dry Wheat

December 2, 2010

Light rains that fell over the driest areas of the U.S. western Plains last weekend provided little relief to the young wheat crop which will soon turn dormant, a forecaster said Monday. “You are still looking at a situation that continues to deteriorate in those western areas – western Kansas, eastern Colorado and southwestern Nebraska,”

Crops

Controlled Burning Season Extended

By Manitoba Agriculture November 25, 2010

Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) advises, as a result of the unusually late fall season, the province has extended the requirement for permits to burn crop residue to Dec. 3. Under the permit program, authorization is required for daytime burning of crop residue. Authorizations are issued for certain hours and in certain areas

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

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