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Mario Tenuta holds up a jar containing soybean roots with nematodes for inspection at the Ian N. Morrison research farm near Carman.

Soybean cyst nematode co-evolved with crop

They are tiny world travellers and Manitoba’s Red River Valley could be  the next stop on the soybean cyst nematode’s global tour

By Shannon VanRaes August 11, 2015

In the middle of the Ian N. Morrison research farm near Carman, an unlikely scene is unfolding as farmers and agronomists crowd around what looks like an old jam jar. “Careful, we don’t want this to break,” Mario Tenuta stresses, with a bit of a chuckle. But what’s inside the tightly sealed jar is no

Spotted wing drosophila (SWD) is a vinegar (fruit) fly of East Asian origin that can damage many crops by piercing healthy fruit and laying its eggs.

Crops, News

Spotted Wing Drosophila an unwelcome visitor to fruit farms this summer

MAFRD began monitoring for SWD in 2013 and this is the worst year yet, say provincial fruit crops specialist

By Lorraine Stevenson July 31, 2015

Altona-area fruit grower Waldo Thiessen knew what was wrong immediately when his U-pick customers started calling back a few hours after their first day in his raspberry patch in mid-July. “They said they’d started to make jam, and, well, there was a lot of protein (in the raspberries),” he said. It was larvae of spotted

Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 7

Conditions as of June 15

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development June 16, 2015

Weekly Provincial Summary Seeding operations in Manitoba are essentially complete for the 2015 season, with the exception of some greenfeed crops. Crops benefitted from the warmer temperatures over the past week and allowed producers to make good progress on weed control operations. Weed control, and fungicide applications where warranted, will remain a priority for producers

Crops, Local news

Seeding 2015: The never-ending story

Close to a million Manitoba acres could get reseeded and 90 per cent of them were canola 

By Allan Dawson June 11, 2015

What started as an early spring has turned into a reseeding frenzy as farmers race against crop insurance deadlines to reseed nearly a million acres damaged by a blizzard, frost, heavy rains and voracious flea beetles. “The May 30 frost was bad for two reasons. One, it was widespread. Two, it was later in the

News, Oilseeds

Scout for silent soybean killer

The soybean cyst nematode is all over the map in North Dakota, so it’s only a matter of time  before it arrives in Manitoba

By Shannon VanRaes January 16, 2015

While the soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines, has yet to be found in Manitoba, producers are being urged to begin scouting now for what is sometimes called the “silent killer.” “They call it the silent killer in areas where it’s been a problem for longer, because yield loss occurs long before symptoms are visible,” Holly

Opinion

Assiniboine River Basin Initiative a good first step

But 'there be dragons' to tame for it to be a success

By Jim Collinson December 1, 2014

Those who attended the meeting in Regina that established the Assiniboine River Basin Initiative deserve credit for their effort. Their determination to come up with a plan to address land and water issues within the basin should be welcomed by all, but the obstacles they face are many. The biggest by far is the poor

The image in question that mistakenly referred to these threshermen as "shoveling hay" instead of "pitching sheaves." Our apologies for the error.

Opinion

Editorial: Hay there!

Telling your stories in the big, broad world of agriculture

By Laura Rance-Unger September 22, 2014

Several readers called in about our reference last week to “shovelling hay” into a threshing machine in our front-page cutline. The general consensus was as a farm paper, we should know better. And we do, most of the time. Of course, you don’t shovel hay into a threshing machine. You pitch in the sheaves. However,

News, Oilseeds, Weather

Frost damage reported in a few areas

An area around Somerset saw below-freezing temperatures for four to seven hours last Friday

By Allan Dawson, Shannon VanRaes September 16, 2014

Most Manitoba producers have dodged an icy bullet for now, but there are reports of some minor injury and areas that received a killing frost. Long-season crops, including corn, and later-seeded crops in parts of western Manitoba got some frost early Monday morning, but the extent of the damage wasn’t known at press time Monday,

Dennis Lange of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development says soybean maturity can vary a lot between varieties as illustrated in this plot near Carman photographed Sept. 5.

Crops, Oilseeds

Manitoba soybean growers hoping for more frost-free days

By Allan Dawson September 10, 2014

Much of Manitoba’s soybean crop is mature enough to survive the sub-zero temperatures expected this week, although yields and quality could be reduced in some areas, a soybean expert said Sept. 8. “Ideally two weeks without frost would be wonderful,” Dennis Lange, a farm production adviser with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) said

Crops, Opinion

No need to run for cover

Have we reached a "tipping point" on the issue of land drainage?

By John Morriss August 18, 2014

For farm writers who value their safety, there are usually two cardinal rules — don’t print anything bad about any breed of cattle, and don’t put good news on the front page (you get calls saying that we shouldn’t give the impression that farmers have lots of money). For Manitoba farm writers however, there is

Daily Network News

Spain probes whether swine fever outbreak was caused by lab leak

World food prices fall for third month in November, UN’s FAO says

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices levelling as demand wanes

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