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Mixed crop and livestock farming can be good for the soil. Photo: Laura Rance

Conservation and livestock can be a good mix

While intensive livestock production can cause waste and nutrients to pile up,  mixed farms are better able to recycle nutrients

By Shannon VanRaes August 6, 2014

When Ian Grossart harvests alfalfa on his farm in southwestern Manitoba, he knows where most of the nutrients he’s just removed are going to end up — back on his land. “With the cattle we compost all of our own manure, so that becomes a big part of our fertility program,” he said. “And because

Livestock

Getting your nitrogen fix from manure a slow and steady process

New research says standard formulas overstate  the amount of nitrogen released

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 3, 2014

Standard calculation formulas overestimate the amount of nitrogen that is available to crops the year after solid manure is applied to the field, researchers with the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment (NCLE) say. Don Flaten and Wole Akinremi say the formula that is used in Manitoba is based on the assumption that 25

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Crops, Livestock, Oilseeds

Struvite from manure safer in canola seed row

Manitoba Soil Science Society serves up a heaping helping of new research

By Daniel Winters March 12, 2014

There’s a whole lot of stinky goodness in hog manure, and researchers at the University of Manitoba have been working hard to make it more convenient for grain farmers to use. Experimental extraction of struvite, or magnesium ammonium phosphate — the same greyish-white crystallized minerals that kidney stones are made of — has shown promise as

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Crops

Four Rs keep the regulators at bay, MSSS hears

Right source, rate, time and place are the best guides for staying on the straight and narrow

By Daniel Winters March 4, 2014

Widespread adoption of voluntary protocols for balancing soil fertility requirements with the need to protect surface water quality will be far more effective than legislation, the director of the International Plant Nutrition Institute says. Tom Jensen told the recent Manitoba Soil Science Society’s annual conference farmers can maintain crop yields and minimize adverse environmental effects

News

KAP president angry over fall fertilizer ban

By Allan Dawson November 20, 2013

Doug Chorney, the normally calm, cool and collected president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), is steaming mad at the Manitoba government for failing to accommodate farmers wanting to apply fertilizer and manure to their fields last week. “I’m really upset because we were misled and I think it was deliberate,” he said in an

Local news

National soil science meeting meets Manitoba mud

A look back in time on Manitoba's escarpment — and a vision of what the future could be

By Allan Dawson July 31, 2013

Dale and Caroline Steppler’s farm on the Manitoba Escarpment was shaped by glaciers,  but today the challenge is keeping nutrients from running down to Lake Winnipeg

In an abandoned shale pit a busload of muddied-shoed soil scientists from across Canada and beyond peer back millions of years into the geological history of this part of the Manitoba Escarpment west of Miami. Marine dinosaur fossils are routinely discovered nearby in the bentonite clay formed from prehistoric volcanic ash. They once swam in

Crops

Cows and crops: A perfect combination, experts say

By Julienne Isaacs March 25, 2013

Fifteen years ago, Marc Boulanger and his family took a closer look at what was happening on their operation near Grande Clairière, Man. — and didn’t like what they saw. “In the late 1980s, when grasshoppers were a major problem, we’d spray — then we were watching how the grasshoppers died, then the birds were

Crops, Forages, Livestock, News, Other livestock

Bison do double duty on organic farm

By Daniel Winters January 17, 2013

Unlike many organic farmers, John Finnie isn’t always scrambling for manure — he has 150 helpers in that task. His herd of Plains bison are a perfect fit on his 1,000-acre certified organic operation near Kenton, northwest of Brandon, he says. “I like to look at them as being a very large piece of machinery,”

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Milk house waste considered manure

By Shannon VanRaes November 30, 2012

Dairy Farmers of Manitoba is looking at ways to assist producers in the face of an upcoming ban on winter manure spreading, which will also affect milk house waste. Under the Save Lake Winnipeg Act, milk house wastewater is considered a manure product, and must be stored until spring. This regulation also rules out the

Crops, News

Fertilizer deadline Nov. 10

By Allan Dawson November 15, 2012

Manitoba farmers have until Saturday, Nov. 10 to finish applying fertilizer to their fields. Provincial government regulations prohibit the application of synthetic fertilizer and manure between Nov. 10 and April 10. The restriction is based on the presumption the ground is normally frozen then. Fertilizer and manure applied to frozen soil is more vulnerable to

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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