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MZTRA Farm Sees Big Benefits From Alfalfa

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“It may be one of the methods that we can help the guys in the heavier clay soils down in the Red River Valley move into a reduced-tillage regime.” – LINDSAY COULTHARD It’s hard not to like alfalfa. But Lindsay Coulthard’s feel ings for the nitrogen-fixing legume go a little deeper than most. During a
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Black, Rich And Found All Over

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Manitoba already has a provincial bird, the great grey owl. Our provincial flower is the prairie crocus. Soon we’ll have an official provincial soil too – Newdale. To the layman, Newdale is that nice black earth that grows really nice crops found around Brandon up to the Riding Mountains. Unlike the other Class 2 contender,
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Herbicide Residues Affect Sunflowers

Some crops are more sensitive to herbicide carry-over than others. Sunflowers can be negatively affected by herbicide residues. Visual damage can vary from mild to severe symptoms, but yield potential and quality can be affected greatly. The following recommendations are from the Guide to Field Crop Protection 2009. For more information and to verify risk,
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Conservation Tillage Story A Template For Innovation

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“You have technological things on top of economics on top of policy on top of psychological factors and this is what creates innovation.” – MURRAY FULTON When Prairie farmers think of conservation tillage, they think of things like economics, weed control and crop rotations. When academics like the University of Saskatchewan’s Murray Fulton think of
Crops, News

Summerfallow Was An Accident Of History

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Historians have dutifully chronicled the 1885 Battle of Batoche in Saskatchewan for its role quashing the Métis uprising led by Louis Riel. But less well known is how it caused the newly arrived agrarian settlers to take a wrong turn in soil management – one that would prove devastating to future generations and take more
Opinion

Innovation Capacity

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You could say mad scientists and farmers operating on the lunatic fringe brought about one of the greatest innovations of 20th century agriculture. Some might go so far as to suggest it has saved Prairie farming – from plowing itself into a dusty oblivion. Zero tillage or no-till farming, as it has come to be
Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Forages Could Reduce Canola Yield

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“Information about placing canola on forages is very limited, so caution is a definite must here.” Producers who have made the decision to put canola into fields previously in forages do so with a degree of risk, says Anastasia Kubinec, oilseed business specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. “Information about placing canola on forages is very limited,
Crops

You Can Come To Terms With Wireworms

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The bad news is that you can’t eliminate wireworms once they’re in your field, but the good news is you can protect your crop with a seed treatment the following year. Wireworms can have a devastating effect on cereal crops, resulting in poor emergence, compromised stand establishment and significantly reduced yields. Traditionally wireworms have been
Crops, Livestock

Cover Crops Go Beyond Nitrogen

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Like spending money to make money, some North Dakota grain producers are using soil nutrients to grow a soil-building cover crop. They have found seeding a diverse plant community or “cocktail” as a cover crop can do much more than put nitrogen into the soil. At a soil health workshop in Plumas sponsored by Mani

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