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Letters – for Nov. 25, 2010

I wish to sincerely apologize to your many readers – producers, organizations, agencies, and members of the public, who I may have offended with my poorly chosen words and comments in the recent front page article in your Nov. 11 issue. My comments, while quoted accurately, were unprofessional, unkind, and may well have negatively impacted
Hogs, Livestock

Variable-Rate Hog Manure Still Needs Work – for Sep. 2, 2010

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Precision agr icul ture isn’t ready for natural fertilizer. That’s the finding of a recently completed study by Nivervillebased Agra-Gold Consulting researcher Scott Dick, who along with Farmer’s Edge Precision Consulting, tested whether the cutting-edge technology could work with a drag-hose application system to apply hog manure. In the MRAC and Manitoba Pork Council-funded study
Opinion

Doing The Right Thing – for Aug. 19, 2010

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Governments, although they usually mean well, make mistakes. And when those errors are incorporated into policy, they can have lasting repercussions. Such was the case in the mid-1990s when the Manitoba government made the ill-fated decision to regulate manure applications to farmland on the basis of nitrogen content. The error was an honest one. The
News

MZTRA Farm Tests Jumpstart Inoculant On Canola – for Aug. 12, 2010

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An Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher has launched a study to find out whether Jumpstart really works. Ramona Mohr will be examining how the phosphate-solubilizing seed inoculant containing the naturally occurring fungi Penicillium bilaii, will affect growth, P uptake, yield and quality of canola at the MZTRA farm, and a handful of other sites in
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MZTRA Farm Tests Jumpstart Inoculant On Canola – for Aug. 12, 2010

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An Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada researcher has launched a study to find out whether Jumpstart really works. Ramona Mohr will be examining how the phosphate-solubilizing seed inoculant containing the naturally occurring fungi Penicillium bilaii, will affect growth, P uptake, yield and quality of canola at the MZTRA farm, and a handful of other sites
Country Crossroads

Going Green In The Greenhouse

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On first glance they looked like various sizes of peat pots but they were actually Cow Pots. The greenhouse industry is not known for being particularly environmentally friendly. Most of the containers used in plant production are non-recyclable plastic and most of the planting medium used is peat based. The extensive use of plastics, derived
Crops, Livestock, Oilseeds, Pulses

Puratone Study To Look At Whole Farm Nutrient Balance

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Hog producers are under pressure from all sides these days, from feed costs to new provincial environmental regulat ions on spreading manure that are due by 2013. With an eye on potentially reducing those burdens, Carole Furedi, a researcher at Niverville-based Puratone, will be testing the effects of including zero-tannin fababeans and dried distillers grains
Livestock

BMP Program Approves 180 Projects

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The Manitoba Sustainable Agriculture Practices Program (MSAPP) has completed its first intake of applications for beneficial management practice (BMP) incentive funding for the 2010-11 fiscal year, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers has announced. “The MSAPP is a incentive-based program announced by the province in 2008 to encourage producers to adopt and implement
Livestock

Air Pollutants Eyed From Poultry Barns

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The federal government could shut down barns because they emit toxic air pollutants. It hasn’t happened yet, nor is it likely to happen without plenty of warning. But the fact remains that the gases and tiny particles coming from barns include ones that are officially deemed toxic and open to regulation. Dr. Bill Van Heyst,

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