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Manitoba Agriculture land management specialist Marla Riekman (l) and Andrew Wilton and his father Doug Wilton examine the underwear that was planted April 18 and tighty-whities that were planted a foot away a month later after both were exhumed June 29 from Doug Wilton’s oat field between Jordan Siding and Miami, Man.
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Holey underwear shows soil health

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After two months in a zero-till field, this underwear was well on its way to being one with the earth

What a difference two months can make on the weather and tighty-whities buried in the soil. There wasn’t a lot left of the cotton underwear Marla Riekman buried in local farmer Doug Wilton’s zero-till field April 18, when she retrieved it June 29. “We can obviously see a lot of breakdown,” said Riekman, Manitoba Agriculture’s
This summer will be the first producers across Western Canada can access free seed for pollinator-friendly plants through Operation Pollinator.
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Bringing back flowers to the field

Operation Pollinator is asking producers to set aside two acres for pollinator-attracting plants this summer

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An initiative to increase biodiversity and pollinator habitat on golf courses is making its large-scale farm debut this summer. Operation Pollinator, spearheaded by Syngenta, was introduced in Canada in 2012 after first appearing in the United Kingdom over a decade ago. The program first approached golf courses, providing seed for out-of-play areas to be planted
A simple pair of cotton underwear can tell you a surprising amount about your soil health.
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Planning for a bumper crop of underwear

The Soil Conservation Council of Canada is hoping underwear will be neither tight nor white 
after two months in the ground

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Cotton underwear should be the latest tool producers use to measure soil health. Soil Your Undies, a campaign pushed by the Soil Conservation Council of Canada as part of its 30th annual awareness week April 16-22, encourages Canadians to bury a pair of cotton underwear for two months. If soil is healthy, with a healthy
Soil health is getting better, but there is still plenty of work to do.
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Soil Conservation Week highlights land stewardship, public education

Soil conservation makes land more productive, but the benefits go well beyond that

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There are few things more important than the soil beneath our feet and this week — National Soil Conservation Week — highlights just how critical it is. Running Apr. 17 to 23, this year the focus is the importance of land stewardship for soil and other resources under the care of the agriculture industry, Paul
topsoil drift in a Manitoba ditch
Comment, Opinion

Soil care: Will we make the right choices?

When net effects are considered, tillage can never be justified

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2015 is International Year of the Soil, and from April 19-25, National Soil Conservation Week brings focus to soil care in Canada. We need to consider our record through the ages as we implement soil protection now. Through the past 10,000 years, history records the successive rise and failure of great civilizations and powerful nations.
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Soil Quality Is On The Public Radar

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“National Soil Conservation Week allows us to celebrate this success and keep soils in the public eye.” – GLEN SHAW Farm soils are moving up the radar of public interest. Long the forgotten child of the environmental movement, there is growing evidence that soils are becoming of greater interest to the general public and the
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In Brief… – for Apr. 15, 2010

Canola crush plant eyed: The R. M. of Woodlands’ community development corporation (CDC) has confirmed ongoing discussions with an unnamed company interested in crushing canola at its new industrial park, just outside Warren. All that’s publicly known so far is that planned infrastructure for the park is meant to “immediately serve a canola-crushing plant and
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Farmers Won’t Tolerate Further Environmental Regulation

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“Agriculture’s been doing more than its fair share without recognition, without the credit for early action from any government at this point…” Whatever measures the federal government selects for cutting carbon emissions must recognize the contributions farmers have already made, says Don McCabe, chairman of the OFA’s Environment and Science Committee. “Any increased costs for
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Celebrating Ongoing Progress In Soil Conservation

soil conservation council of canada release Most Canadians have seen severe soil erosion. It might be the dramatic images of the dust bowl of the Canadian Prairies replayed as a reminder of the “Dirty Thirties.” Or it might be images of water erosion of severely flooded lands in Eastern Canada. Other than the odd reference

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