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Editorial: The waiting game
Crops, Opinion

Editorial: The waiting game

Support is greatly needed for farmers affected by flooding, but what will it be and when?

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“May the odds be forever in your favour” is a memorable quote from the The Hunger Games, a popular book trilogy later made into movies. Although it is voiced as a cheery sendoff into competition, the irony is that the child protagonists face unspeakably cruel odds, pitted against one another in a fight-to-the-finish match from
How do we define a fall frost?
Weather

How do we define a fall frost?

Temperatures at thermometer level may vary from what's happening on the ground

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Around the same time every year, if you are into agriculture at any level, thoughts start to turn to fall frost. Will it be earlier or later than average? I love overhearing weather conversations, because it often makes me realize I need to keep revisiting certain topics, and fall frost is one of them. When
Some weather models point to widespread frost Friday (Sept. 12) in western Manitoba.
News & Opinion, Weather

Killing frost Friday would damage W. Man. crop

After the weekend, warmer, drier weather is forecast until the end of September

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A killing frost Friday morning will damage a lot of crops in western Manitoba, including cereals and canola, says Lionel Kaskiw — and that’s what the forecast is calling for. “We needed at least until the third week of September or the end of September (without frost) and we’re getting (frost possibly) the second week
Dennis Lange of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development says soybean maturity can vary a lot between varieties as illustrated in this plot near Carman photographed Sept. 5.
Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba soybean growers hoping for more frost-free days

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Much of Manitoba’s soybean crop is mature enough to survive the sub-zero temperatures expected this week, although yields and quality could be reduced in some areas, a soybean expert said Sept. 8. “Ideally two weeks without frost would be wonderful,” Dennis Lange, a farm production adviser with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) said
American canola crusher setting up delivery facility in Winkler
Crops, Oilseeds

American canola crusher setting up delivery facility in Winkler

Northstar Agri Industries located in Hallock, Minn. is making it simpler and faster for 
Manitoba farmers to deliver to them on this side of the border

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An American crushing firm is making it easier for southern Manitoba farmers to deliver canola to it. Northstar Agri Industries of Hallock, Minnesota, is building a new 1,500-tonne high-throughput facility at Winkler to receive, store and transload canola. The operation, due to open this fall, will employ two or three people. “The demand for (canola)
These eight women make up half the current number of Valley Harvest Maids, a non-profit group of volunteer cooks who’ve been baking and cooking traditional meals at the Pembina Threshermen’s Museum since the late 1960s. Pictured (l to r) are Judy Thiessen, Esther Wieler, Mary Penner, Tina Holenski, Gert Hiebert, Katharina Peters, Mary Zacharias and Tina Friesen. Jake Buhler, in back, is the vice-president of the Pembina Threshermen’s Museum who was helping out in the kitchen last week.  PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON
Country Crossroads, Local news

VIDEO: Forty years of ‘old-fashioned food’

Women in the cheerful kitchen of the Valley Harvest Maids at the Threshermen’s museum between Morden and Winkler keep everyone very well fed with the traditional recipes

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Would you be calm with 1,000 or more expected for dinner, bringing with them big appetites and even bigger expectations that your cooking will be just as good as it’s always been for over 40 years? You are if you’re a Valley Harvest Maid. On a sunny August afternoon, a half-dozen women from the farms
VIDEO: Watch soybean varieties closely as frost looms
Crops, Oilseeds

VIDEO: Watch soybean varieties closely as frost looms

Keep varieties' progress in mind when choosing for next year

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Manitoba soybean growers are hoping for at least another frost-free week. Dennis Lange of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development discussed soybean maturity on Sept. 7 with Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson at a test plot near Carman. The plot of yellow-leaved soybeans seen in the video are in the R-7 stage. According to Lange, this
Emerson’s “R” rating for fusarium head blight is driving demand for the new winter wheat.  photo Canterra Seeds
Cereals, Crops

Big demand for “R” rated Emerson winter wheat

Early indications are Canada’s only fusarium head-blight resistant wheat 
performed well despite a high incidence of fusarium this year

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Canada’s first fusarium head-blight resistant wheat variety survived a baptism by fire this summer, which explains why demand for its seed exceeds the available supply. Emerson winter wheat is the first variety to achieve the “R” rating for resistance to fusarium. The level of fusarium head blight infection affecting winter wheat crops in Manitoba in
A flooded field in Manitoba this past July.
Crops, Local news

KAP, APAS fear pleas for AgriRecovery falling on deaf ears

KAP says aid is needed to offset some of the ongoing affects of excessive moisture and cuts to AgriStability

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Hopes are fading of extra federal and provincial assistance for farmers affected by moisture this year, Manitoba and Saskatchewan farm leaders say. “I am very concerned, unlike in 2011 when I had a real good feeling that government would be doing something for farmers,” Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Doug Chorney said in an interview
Swathed canola near Elphinstone awaits drier weather.  Photo: Laura Rance
Crops, Forages, News, Oilseeds, Weather

Rain, rain go away

Recent rains and forecasts for more along with shorter days and cooler temperatures are delaying Manitoba’s harvest

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Harvest is looking like spring — too wet. Most of agro-Manitoba received rain last week, and again over the long weekend with more was forecast for this week, prompting concerns about harvest delays and deteriorating grades. “I think everyone is pretty worried about this is affecting the quality of grain, especially wheat,” Keystone Agricultural Producers’

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