Marla Riekman with Manitoba Agriculture talks about the 4Rs and the effective use of fertilizers when growing crops.
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VIDEO: THROWBACK: Targeting your fertilizer needs using the 4Rs
Synchronizing nutrient uptake and 4R principles for optimal crop results
Tillage questions posed for Manitoba
David Lobb with the University of Manitoba is researching the cost of soil degradation
What does soil degradation cost you? Dr. David Lobb hopes the answer to that question will get producers looking more closely at what’s happening under their feet. The University of Manitoba researcher spoke Nov. 15 in Dauphin at the “Soil Health and Your Bottom Line” workshop, hosted by the Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve. Lobb estimates
Manitoba sees changing erosion landscape
Manitoba may not have a lot of topography but Dr. David Lobb says it’s enough for tillage erosion, especially as soybeans expand
As soybean acreage has exploded, new questions about soil erosion are arising. This past spring a record 2.3 million acres were planted and that has soil specialists expressing some concern about increased tillage practices and the soil impact of the new crop. “When you go to crops like soybeans, the ability of the soil to
VIDEO: Getting down to your roots
Crop Diagnostic School offered a cutaway view of how crop roots move through soil
Along with her colleagues, Marla Riekman, land management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, took up a shovel last month at Crop Diagnostic School to help show what’s going on underground with roots. Allan Dawson met up with Riekman to learn about the types of root systems in crops, how they extract nutrients from the soil, the effects of
What’s in your field?
Planting a pair of tighty whities can help you find out
Doug Wilton is curious about how much soil “wildlife” is in his fields. That’s why the Roland-area farmer is participating in the “soilyourundies” demonstration launched during Soil Conservation Week in April. “The Soil Conservation Council (of Canada) decided this would be something kind of fun and exciting and different to do in order to bring
VIDEO: Testing soil health with cotton underwear
Local farmer offers up a patch of land for underground undie research
Soil specialist Marla Riekman and farmer Doug Wilton – whose patch of land has been zero-till for more than 30 years – talk about their ‘Soil Your Undies’ project with Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson on April 18, 2017.
Lower air pressure in tires to reduce soil compaction
There are no easy solutions to soil compaction but there are some strategies to help avoid it
For producers soil compaction probably feels like an unwinnable catch-22. They need to get out and perform field operations to grow crops, but each pass contributes to the creation of soil compaction that can seriously hinder productivity. Provincial land management specialist Marla Riekman told producers at the recent St. Jean Baptist Farm Days that there
Applied research already well underway at MBFI
MBFI has kick-started a number of research projects, examining everything from energy-dense annual forages to riparian health
Just 18 months into its existence, the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative (MBFI) has hit the ground running with a number of research projects. “Transitioning from the initial concept of MBFI to successfully completing several research projects in such short order is no small feat,” said Ramona Blyth, chair of the MBFI board during the
A wet cycle has caused some farmers to rethink zero till
Seeding & Tillage Focus: As the province’s wet cycle appears poised to break, soil compaction is a lingering after-effect
The past few years have been a bit hard on zero till in Manitoba. Faced with a flood followed by a long wet cycle, more and more farmers in the southwest part of the province were forced to do something they thought they’d left in the past — pull out their tillage implements. Their aim,
Salt of the earth
Salinity exists in Manitoba, but producers might not be aware of it until it's too late
Switching from forages to soybeans is one way to see if you’ve got saline soil, but it’s not the method Marla Riekman recommends. The provincial land management specialist told producers attending Manitoba Ag Days that testing is the only surefire way to learn what kind of salinity you have on your farm, although there are
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