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If It’s Too Wet To Drive Across, It’s Too Wet To Seed

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Business Development Specialist – oilseeds Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Delayed seeding due to flooding or wet conditions may have you considering broadcast seeding your canola by floater or aerial application. In general, broadcast seeding is not recommended. This includes seeding canola by aircraft onto very wet fields: if it’s too wet to drive
Cereals, Crops

Midge-Tolerant Wheat By Fall 2009

Alliance Seed Corporation has obtained the rights to the Goodeve VB midge-tolerant wheat variety developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Under the terms of the licensing deal, Alliance Seed Corporation has been awarded exclusive marketing and distribution rights for the Goodeve VB variety in Canada. Alliance Seed Corporation plans to work with its own retail
Forages, News

Frost Seeding Cheaper, But Results Can Be Sketchy

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“If I had some really rough land and the stand was really bad and I wanted to get some legumes in, I might try it on some parts. I certainly wouldn’t go out and seed 160 acres that way.” – jane thornton There are two ways of reviving pastures that are past their prime. The
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Bee Stings Top Concern Among Public

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“How does anything survive on that kind of a schedule? That’s not the way to keep bees, I don’t think.” – MURRAY COX Do you get stung a lot? That’s the question asked by 95 per cent of the public who stop in to check out the beekeeping display at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair.
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
Country Crossroads

One Sweet Home-Based Business

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HONEYBEE FACTS Honey is the only food that includes all the substance necessary to sustain life including water. A hive of bees must fly 5,000 miles to produce one pound of honey. To make honey, bees drop the collected nectar into the honeycomb and then evaporate it by fanning their wings. Honeybees collect nectar from
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Oversold Biotech Hurts Plant Breeders

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“Breeding has been hijacked by biotech’s bio-bulls–t.” – BRIAN ROSSNAGEL Misplaced hype over biotechnology is making it harder to garner research dollars for good, old-fashioned plant breeding, a plant breeder with the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre says. “Breeding has been hijacked by biotech’s bio-bulls–t,” Brian Rossnagel told the Prairie Grain Development Committee’s annual
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No Smoking Gun For CCD

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For the past three years, a mysterious die-off of honeybees in the U. S. has gripped public attention and led to fascinating theories about its origin. Suggested causes of colony collapse disorder (CCD) included pesticides, diseases, changing weather patterns, inadequate nutrition, environmental stress and plain overwork. Some blamed radio waves from cellphones for causing bees
Crops

Massive Effort Underway To Save Endangered Seeds

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Farmers and plant breeders around the globe are planting thousands of endangered seeds as part of an effort to save 100,000 varieties of food crops from extinction. In many cases, only a handful of seeds remain from rare varieties of barley, rice and wheat whose history can be traced back to the Neolithic era, said
Crops

New Protection From Wireworm Damage

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Canadian potato growers have a new tool to reduce the damage caused by wireworm with new Titan (clothiandin). Available for the 2009 planting season, Titan is the only seed piece treatment registered for suppression of the damage caused by wireworm. “Protecting potatoes from the moment the seed piece hits the ground gives growers a head

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