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Feed The Soil So It Can Feed The Crop

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Crop yields in a slump? Disease and insect probalems rife? Input costs chewing up profit margins every year? Before you cur se the weather, bugs, or chemical companies, you might want to consider another cause: Declining soil quality. Modern farming has developed a host of quick-fix solutions but the beneficial effects are temporary if you
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Changing Of The Guard At Deerwood

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Local lore has it that one of the reasons Bill Turner devoted more than two decades of his life to seemingly mundane tasks such as capping off abandoned wells dates back to his childhood. As a nine-year-old, Turner was peering down an old well shaft when a mischievous older schoolboy gave him a little nudge
Crops, Forages

The Role Of Cover Crops In Healthy Soil

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Want healthier soil, higher yields and lower input costs? Then take a page from Mother Nature’s playbook. That was the message from the recent Cover Crop Field Day in Bangor, Saskatchewan, organized by the Parkland Holistic Management club. The highlight of the tour was the farm of Garry Richards who, after taking a holistic management
Crops

Shotgun Silage, Grazing Mixes Tested

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“The quality that brings to your soil is huge. You get better water infiltration, water and nutrient holding capacity, tilth, aggregation, and all sorts of good things.” – SUSAN AINSWORTH, MAFRI On Bernie Dueck’s farm near Sidney, the crop is coming up gangbusters. That’s right, in five-acre strips, there’s a whole whack of plants emerging,
Crops

Soil Quality Is On The Public Radar

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“National Soil Conservation Week allows us to celebrate this success and keep soils in the public eye.” – GLEN SHAW Farm soils are moving up the radar of public interest. Long the forgotten child of the environmental movement, there is growing evidence that soils are becoming of greater interest to the general public and the
Crops

No Till No Silver Bullet For Lake Winnipeg Phosphorus Loading

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It has long been a commonly held belief that zero tillage is a good way to keep phosphorus out of watersheds. But the latest research at South Tobacco Creek, near Miami, shows that the soil conservation practice aimed at covering up bare dirt with crop residue may be leading to more of the nutrient leaking
Crops

Best Of Both Worlds

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“Often row crops that we grow just suffer too much growth and yield depression when they are seeded in zero-till conditions.” – JOHN HEARD It’s hard to beat warm, black soil for spring seeding. But under the zero-tillage doctrine, which places great importance on the moisture retention and soil preservation advantages of retained trash cover,
Crops

Strip Tillage Touted As Beneficial For Row Crops

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“To me, it’s a real nice compromise.” – GREG ENDRES, NDSU Row crop farmers who want to switch from conventional tillage but not to zero till may find a middle ground with strip tillage. Strip tillage is a system which allows growers to seed directly into a prepared seedbed while still retaining crop residue on
Crops

Organic No-Till Pioneer Explains Strategy

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When Jeff Moyer, farm manager of the Rodale Institute, started cutting back on tillage out of concern for the long-term health of the soil on the institute’s 330-acre research farm in southeast Pennsylvania, he faced a predictable result. Weeds – and lots of them. “Year after year, our weed pressure was building until it was
Cereals, Crops

Not A Good Year For Corn At MZTRA Farm

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“Are we there yet as an industry for growing grain corn in the cooler climates? The answer would be no. Is it coming? Yes, it is.” – BARRY CHAPPELL Corn likes heat, and lots of it. Unf o r tuna t e l y, i n Manitoba this spring, there wasn’t much of that. A

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