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Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report: 2018 season summary

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for October 29

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Southwest Region Weather conditions were dry and seedbed was very dry especially in southern parts of the region. Dry conditions in most of the region during July and August. Rainfall and below than normal temperatures in September and early October cause the significant delay in harvest and no major benefit to crops as most of
Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Dry weather, sunshine help push harvest progress

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for October 22

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Southwest Region Nice weather towards the end of week/over weekend, with minor showers on Friday night that stopped harvesting on Saturday. Harvest progress is increasing each day, with overall harvest at 85 per cent done. South of highway #1 90 per cent and North is 80 per cent done. Click here for the Crop Weather
Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Wet, cool conditions continue to slow harvest, now 73 per cent complete

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for September 24

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Southwest Region Rain showers across the region ranging from 8mm (Waskada) to 39 mm (Eden). All areas received some rain. More rain and snow in Northern parts of the region.  Hamiota, Rivers, Newdale got 3 to 4 inches of snow on the weekend.  Temperature was well below 0C during most of the nights.  Cloudy and
Canola swathed and waiting for harvest in the Interlake on August 8.
Crops, Local news, Other

Bringing in the bread

Cereal and canola growers are smiling after pleasantly surprising yields

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Cool-season crops once again dodged the drought bullet this year, according to the first harvest reports from Manitoba Agriculture, but soybeans may not be as lucky. Dry, hot weather has been among the big conversation starters in agro-Manitoba this year. Despite that, according to farm production adviser Rejean Picard, cool-season crop yields have impressed and
Terry Buss displays a photograph showing a side-by-side comparison of field peas infected with ascochyta blight isolates resistant to Frac 11 fungicides. From left to right: untreated, treated with Headline (Frac 11) fungicide and treated with a Proline fungicide.
Crops, Pulses

Field peas a strong alternative to soybeans

But you’ll need to remember the rulebook is different

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Field pea markets might still be depressed following last year’s trade disputes with India, but the crop represents an opportunity for Manitoba producers in the long term. That’s according to Terry Buss, farm production extension specialist for Manitoba Agriculture. “As you go west and south in Manitoba, the soils are lighter and better drained, and
Manitoba Agriculture pulse specialist Dennis Lange is suggesting farmers check their soybean fields for mature, green-seeded soybeans and if the percentage is high consider delaying harvest and also consulting with buyers.
Local news, Oilseeds

Advice on green-seeded soybeans

Consider delaying harvest and talk to your buyers, says Dennis Lange

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Grade-lowering levels of green seed is showing up in some of the soybeans being harvested in Manitoba. Manitoba Agriculture’s pulse crop specialist Dennis Lange is advising farmers who haven’t harvested to take samples to see if they have the problem and how bad it is. Those with green seeded soybeans should consider delaying harvest a
Holly Derksen, Manitoba Agriculture’s field crop pathologist is leaving her position to work for Arysta LifeScience.
Crops, Local news

Manitoba Agriculture is losing its field crop pathologist

Commodity groups are hoping the position will be filled quickly

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Field crop pathologist Holly Derksen is leaving Manitoba Agriculture Sept. 14 to join Arysta LifeScience Oct. 1 as its technical support specialist for Manitoba. “Obviously I like pathology and that’s what I went to school for, but I didn’t want to lose the general agronomy knowledge that I have,” Derksen said in an interview Aug.
Clubroot, which causes bulbous swellings on canola roots, has become infamous for its impact on yield.
Crops, Local news, Other

Manitoba has another confirmed case of clubroot

A third case in the RM of Lorne brings the total so far this year to 10

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A third case of clubroot was recently found in the Rural Municipality of Lorne, bringing the Manitoba total for the season to 10. Earlier this summer two other cases were confirmed in Lorne along with one in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin and six in the Rural Municipality of Pembina, Holly Derksen, Manitoba Agriculture field
Understand that straight cutting canola will mean taking a look at how the entire combine operates.
Crops, Equipment, Oilseeds

Different harvest, different combine settings

Those combine settings may not be doing you any favours if you’re aiming for straight cut and they’re still set to swath

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First-time canola straight cutters might want to take another look at their combine settings. “When we’re comparing picking up a windrow to straight cutting, we, again, want to kind of treat this like a different crop,” Angela Brackenreed of the Canola Council of Canada stressed during a recent Manitoba Agriculture webinar. “The same combine setting
Dry conditions saw many Manitoba producers harvesting canola ahead of schedule this year.
Local news, Other, Weather

Was this year actually wetter than last year?

Both this year and last year have been dry, but this year might actually be the wetter of the two, going by numbers alone

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Manitoba’s fields have had their feet to the fire this year as the province suffers through its second consecutive dry growing season — but Manitoba Agriculture data says this year might have actually been the wetter of the two. Timi Ojo, meteorology specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says more rain fell from May to late August

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