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La Salle Redboine Conservation District manager Justin Reid spoke to municipal and conservation officials during the latest phase of the large-scale water-retention project south of Holland last week.

Pelly’s Lake watershed management project complete

Officials visit site to see the gates opened on the now complete Pelly’s Lake Watershed Management Project

By Lorraine Stevenson June 26, 2015

Conservation and municipal officials opened the gates here June 16 to release water that had been held back through the spring as part of a water control project expected to bring multiple benefits to the area. The June opening of the gates on the Pelly’s Lake dam built last year is the latest phase of

Hogs, Livestock, News

Researcher says blaming farmers for phosphorus in Lake Winnipeg is overly simplistic

By Shannon VanRaes February 15, 2012

Recent flooding has driven Lake Winnipeg’s already high nutrient levels even higher, says Michael Stainton of Freshwater Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada. “I think we’ve demonstrated that the major change we’re seeing in the lake is driven by changes in the flow of the Red River,” Stainton told hog producers at the 2012 Swine Seminar

Crops

Noxious Or Necessary?

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 1, 2010

Phosphorus is not an evil pollutant – in fact it is a foundational building block for the DNA and RNA of all living things, even viruses, and is absolutely necessary for plants to capture energy of the sun through photosynthesis. “A reporter asked me a year ago, ‘Is there a substitute for phosphorus?’” said Flaten.

Crops

Holistic Approach To Phosphorus Management Urged

By Ron Friesen March 4, 2010

“It’s time to treat environmental health like we do human health.” – DON FLATEN They’re the latest buzzword in environmental management – beneficial management practices, or BMPs for short. Follow them and your farm will be environmentally sound, producers are told. It sounds good in theory. But are BMPs really the answer to environmental problems

Opinion

More Phosphorus Study Not Needed

October 29, 2009

According to “In briefs” (Manitoba Co-operator Oct. 22.) the province has implemented new management regulations for phosphorus, plus a $300,000 grant for yet another study. The study is needed, according to the water stewardship minister to determine the relationship between phosphorus build up in the soil and “how” it later gets into Manitoba waterways. The

News

U. S. “Dead Zone” Smaller But More Severe

By Timothy Gardner August 6, 2009

The “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, an area choked by low oxygen levels that threatens marine life, is smaller than expected this year but more deadly, the U. S. government said July 27. The zone, caused by a run-off of agricultural chemicals from farms along the Mississippi River, measured about 3,000 square miles

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Pelly’s Lake watershed management project complete

Researcher says blaming farmers for phosphorus in Lake Winnipeg is overly simplistic

Noxious Or Necessary?

Holistic Approach To Phosphorus Management Urged

More Phosphorus Study Not Needed

U. S. “Dead Zone” Smaller But More Severe

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