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VIDEO: When cover crops and cattle meet
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VIDEO: When cover crops and cattle meet

Partnership with local cattle producer helps improve soil health

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In July, the Manitoba Organic Alliance (MOA) held a cover crop farm tour at Faspa Farm near Manitou, Man. Here, Karen Klassen, farmer and executive director of the MOA, talks about the cover crops that were planted at Faspa Farm, how the cover crops planted in 2021 fared during drought, her partnership with a local
The CFIA has done consultations on how it would treat gene-edited seeds.
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Health Canada decision worries organic growers

Potential for contamination will increase if gene-edited crops become widespread, say organic organizations

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Organic producers are concerned that a Health Canada decision deeming most gene-edited crops safe will disrupt their farms and markets. “It will have a significant effect on our sector,” said Marla Carlson, executive director of SaskOrganics. In May, Health Canada released a decision which said that gene-edited plants and food from those plants would not
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Crops

Hepatitis A outbreak linked to organic strawberries

Cases reported in two provinces, three states

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Washington | Reuters –– Food safety regulators in both Canada and the U.S. are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak potentially linked to tainted organic strawberries that has sickened 17 people in the U.S. and 10 in Canada, the agencies said. Fifteen illnesses were reported in California, and one each in Minnesota and North Dakota, the
The Canadian Organic Trade Association gave Manitoba organic crop insurance three out of five stars.
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Manitoba middle of pack in organic regulation, crop insurance

COTA ‘State of Organics’ gives low scores for organic market and production supports, data collection

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Manitoba’s organic crop insurance and organic regulation and enforcement land the province about in the middle in Canada, according to a new Canadian Organic Trade Alliance (COTA) report. Recent overhauls of Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation’s (MASC) organic crop insurance programs have led to “significantly larger payouts” while adding more crops to the program,” said COTA
Canada exports organic wheat around the world.
Markets, News

Organic grains snapshot

Climbing acreage, high prices, good contracts, but expansion may be a tough sell in 2022

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With timely rains, organic farming could be a good place to be in 2022 — but it may not be enough to drive expansion of organic acres, said Laura Telford and Stuart McMillan. In a talk during the Prairie Organics Conference on February 9, Telford, the provincial organic specialist, and McMillan, an organic farmer and organic inspector, shared
A 2018 aerial view of Pipeline Foods’ grain elevator at Gull Lake in southwestern Saskatchewan. (Pipeline Foods video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops

Bankrupt organic firm’s Prairie growers to be paid

CGC to issue compensation

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Over four dozen Prairie grain growers who supplied a Minneapolis firm specializing in organic and non-GMO grains will get paid in full, the Canadian Grain Commission says. The CGC on Tuesday announced the results of its review of producer claims in the wake of last July’s bankruptcy filing by Pipeline Foods, whose footprint in Canada
Organic farmers more likely to leave space for biodiversity, study says
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Organic farmers more likely to leave space for biodiversity, study says

Biodiversity concerns became part of the Canadian Organic Standards in 2020

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Organic farmers leave more semi-natural vegetation in their fields than their conventional counterparts, according to a recent study out of Dalhousie University. Out of 71 organic and conventional field pairs mapped in a Saskatchewan-based study, the organic fields contained just over nine per cent mixed perennial, or semi-natural, vegetation whereas conventional fields contained about six per
The true cost of producing a field of corn goes beyond just the inputs to grow the crop.
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Before transforming a food system, count the costs — all of them — says economist

Traditionally crop production is measured in inputs and outputs, but that approach doesn’t tell the full story

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What does corn cost? Not the price per bushel, or the tag on a can of niblets in the grocery store. What is the true cost of rolling fields of corn and how does this compare to the millions it brings to local economies? In a 2020 study published in Scientific Reports, Australian ecological economist Harpinder Sandhu
Callum Morrison takes moisture readings in a soybean cash crop that is part of a long-term cover cropping field trial in Carman.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Cover crop survey reveals risks and benefits

Producers like the potential but say short season, lack of moisture key concerns

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Planting a cover crop is a new idea this far north. It has its agronomic advantages, it keeps roots in the soil after the harvest, although it comes with its problems as well, especially in Western Canada. Prairie farmers were historically skeptical about cover cropping. Some say it’s purposely growing “weeds” that will deplete your
File photo of a dairy operation in B.C.’s Fraser Valley. (Modfos/iStock/Getty Images)
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Weather

Some B.C. milk runs resume as roads reopen

Sumas Prairie remains under boil water advisory

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Milk pickups are resuming for some southern British Columbia dairy farmers, days after flooding and landslides caused by a days-long rainstorm cut off vehicle traffic through the region. In the wake of the Nov. 14-16 storm, with trucks unable to reach farms, the B.C. Milk Marketing Board on Nov. 16 asked that affected dairy farmers

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