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Kelly Patzer, Bayer CropScience’s cereals development manager, says Bayer’s plant health compound shows a lot of promise and is expected to have its biggest impact in Canada because crops here are usually under more stress than in other growing areas around the world.  Photos: Allan Dawson
Crops

Bayer says ‘plant health compound’ combats stress

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It sounds almost to good to be true — spring wheat yields averaging 6.5 per cent higher when treated with what Bayer CropScience calls a “plant health compound.” Bayer has yet to disclose the exact nature of the experimental product, but says it boosts yields by reducing plant stress. The results are based on 19
Mamoon Rashid, the provincial sheep and goat specialist speaks to
Rossburn-area farmers about predator control.
Livestock

Riding Mountain ranchers face new threat

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Ranchers south of Riding Mountain National Park fear a new headache is on the way — increased predator attacks from coyotes and wolves. Efforts aimed at preventing bovine tuberculosis in wildlife from spreading to their cattle herds have slashed the elk population, and now a special whitetail deer season for two zones bordering the west
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Crops

Night-only aeration not the best approach, three experts conclude

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Farmers who need to reduce the moisture content in their grain should steer clear of advice to run their aeration fans only at night, three grain-drying experts say after comparing different methods. Chandra Singh and Ronald Larson of OPI Systems Inc., in Calgary and Digvir Jayas, the distinguished professor and Canada Research chair in stored
Photo: Daniel Winters
Livestock

Tips and tricks for predator hunting

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Ranchers and shepherds who are handy with a varmint rifle may find that the key to coyote control is just a “mournful” call away. Rob Lamont, an avid coyote hunter from Brandon, offered a few tips and insights into the fine art of luring predators within shooting range with a call. First, find a site
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Livestock

‘Who’s your trapper?’ asks MTA director

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Urban foodies are being encouraged to get to know their farmer in order to forge direct links with their food supply. But to avoid feeding coyotes instead of customers, ranchers and shepherds should get to know their local trapper, said Neil Brandstrom, a Manitoba Trappers Association director from Eriksdale. “We need you to talk to
Clubroot galls on a canola plant. (Canola Council of Canada)
Crops

Manitoba no longer clubroot-free

MAFRI advises best management practices for disease prevention

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Tests on two unrelated canola fields in Manitoba in August and September have confirmed clubroot on both samples, Manitoba’s agriculture department said Thursday. “Due to these results, the department says Manitoba can no longer be considered free of clubroot disease,” the department said in a special bulletin. The discovery of clubroot symptoms in Manitoba had
Crops

They’re big and unwieldy, but farmers urged not to burn grain bags

A pilot project saw collection depots set up in Pearson, Portage la Prairie and Neepawa, 
with an eye to establishing a province-wide recycling plan

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In addition to being illegal in most provinces, burning used grain storage bags is bad for the environment and anyone downwind. But what do you do with the huge, unwieldy pieces of plastic, which can weigh up to 350 pounds? The bags are an inexpensive way to store grain and on many large operations, more
Moisture content at harvest determines whether to use a grain dryer, a drying bin or natural aeration.
Crops

Storage tips for corn and soybeans

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New varieties better adapted for Manitoba’s shorter growing season mean more farmers are growing corn and soybeans for the first time, which means they’ll soon be storing them for the first time. Like any other grain, the key is moisture and temperature control, says grain management specialist Dave Wall of Wall Grain. Grain needs to
Livestock

One step closer to solving the BSE mystery

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Prion proteins act normally, until they misfold and become infectious A decade after BSE rocked the Canadian cattle industry, two University of Alberta scientists and their Swiss colleagues have taken a major step towards finding a way to block prion infection which leads to BSE and scrapie. “My lab contributed how the antibodies interact with
Farmer Rob Brunel says he started to work on installing a new dryer in 2010 but didn’t use it until 2012 because of onerous regulations.
Crops

Less red tape for new grain dryer hookups

The fire commissioner's office has dropped the venting requirement on new CSA 3.8 certified dryers

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New provincial regulations should make it easier to hook up a new grain dryer — but installations and inspections will still take time and planning. The physical placement of the dryer (which often involves a new bin for wet grain and one for dried grain) and then getting an electrician and gas fitter out to

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