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The herd grazes one of 100 paddocks at Nerbas Bros. Angus, part of the operation’s strip grazing system.
Beef cattle, Livestock

Nerbas Bros. Angus recognized for environmental efforts

Grazing systems and forage are key for the winners of this year’s 
Manitoba Beef Producers Environmental Stewardship Award

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The Nerbas family of Shellmouth, Man., isn’t interested in a whole lot of inputs for their forage-only Angus herd. Arron and Shane Nerbas, along with their wives, Amber and Sacha, their children, and their parents Gene and Cynthia, run a 525-head commercial herd and 75 head of registered breeding stock under a mix of summer
A simple pair of cotton underwear can tell you a surprising amount about your soil health.
Crops

Planning for a bumper crop of underwear

The Soil Conservation Council of Canada is hoping underwear will be neither tight nor white 
after two months in the ground

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Cotton underwear should be the latest tool producers use to measure soil health. Soil Your Undies, a campaign pushed by the Soil Conservation Council of Canada as part of its 30th annual awareness week April 16-22, encourages Canadians to bury a pair of cotton underwear for two months. If soil is healthy, with a healthy
Altona farmer Danny Penner (r) Somerset farmer Gerry Demare and 
Emerson MLA Cliff Graydon.
Local news

Carbon tax effects could undermine rural support for PCs

Somerset farmer Gerry Demare proposes farmers pay the tax on inputs 
if they get the money back like they do with the GST

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Manitoba’s coming carbon tax must not hurt farmers or the governing Progressive Conservatives (PC) could face a new right-wing party next election. Local farmer and PC supporter Danny Penner delivered that blunt message to Emerson MLA Cliff Graydon here at a carbon tax meeting March 30. “I am disappointed in Brian Pallister and his government,”
Speaker Clayton Robins gives a first-hand account of cover crops as used on his own operation in Rivers, Man., Mar. 1.
Crops, Local news

Soil management, cover crops and recouping costs explored

Farm-specific cover crop integration was the backbone of the latest Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association grazing club workshop

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Clayton Robins knows something about fighting soil salinity. His farm, located near Rivers, Man., sits on top of what he’s described as “starry night” soil, speckled with white pockets of high salt content. It’s an issue he says has largely disappeared since he first added a secondary NS simultaneous crop focused on soil management rather
flooded field drainage - FIW
Comment, Local news, Weather

Pull the plug or turn off the tap?

A holistic approach to drainage and flooding issues will help us do both

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The bathtub is almost full. It will begin to overflow momentarily, unless I do something right away. Do I pull the plug or turn off the tap? And maybe, just maybe, I could do a little of both to solve my impending dilemma. After sitting in on a series of meetings in the southwest corner
The rangeland and pasture health assessment tool aims to help land users and producers determine potential plant community composition, forage production, stocking rates and the impacts of management practices on ecological functions.
Forages, Livestock

Creating a better process for assessing pasture

Stakeholders from across the industry are currently working together to develop 
a Manitoba-focused rangeland and pasture health assessment

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Following in the footsteps of our Prairie neighbours, Manitoba is working towards developing a customized rangeland and pasture health assessment. “The project is born out of similar initiatives that started in the United States, Alberta and then Saskatchewan. They have developed these tools for assessing rangeland health, looking at various indicators like bare soil, litter
Multiple flooding events in the Assiniboine River basin the past several years have seen crops losses increase in many jurisdictions.
Local news

MCDA updated on progress of Aquanty project

Conservation districts could one day use the program to run water-based scenarios in their jurisdictions

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It’s no crystal ball, but when a new computer modelling program now under development is complete, a much clearer picture how various flood and drought scenarios could impact the rural landscape will emerge. Delegates at last month’s Manitoba Conservation District Association annual convention heard more about how a new HydroGeoSphere model under construction will work
Graziers from across Canada visited the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative recently.
Forages, Livestock

MBFI collaboration draws accolades from visiting graziers

Tour participants said the model performs extension, something Canada has begun to fall behind on

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Around 40 delegates to the Canadian Forage and Grasslands Association annual conference, recently held in Winnipeg, arrived a day early to get a look at how Manitoba does it. They enjoyed unseasonably warm and sunny weather as they took a close-up look at the action at the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative (MBFI) operations around
Co-operation between municipalities can help reduce flooding that otherwise results when water problems are simply passed to the next jurisdiction, the ARBI conference was told.
Local news

Flood resilience increasing as jurisdictions co-operate: ARBI

By pulling the pieces of the puzzle together, a better and more co-ordinated approach is possible

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Flooding remains a persistent threat, but some farmers and landowners living along the Assiniboine, Souris and Qu’Appelle rivers and their tributaries are now better prepared for the next occurrence. Since 2011 five municipalities along with the City of Brandon, working in Manitoba’s Upper Assiniboine Conservation District, have funded and built several new small dams and
Manitoba is developing a reputation for its grazing research efforts.
Forages, Livestock

Showcasing the value of the forage industry

The Canadian Forage and Grassland Association will highlight Manitoba’s 
unique forage research initiatives at the organization’s national conference

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If you want to talk about grasslands and forage, go to where the action is — and lately a lot of that action is in Manitoba. In the eyes of the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association (CFGA), Manitoba has been a standout in its efforts towards forage research and the ideal place to hold this

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