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Alex Boersch has been inspired by nutrition farming techniques and is now trying them out on the family farm. Behind him is specialized equipment the farm now uses for solubilizing and mixing dry fertilizers or soil conditioners.

Local farmer takes a ‘dietary requirements’ approach to soil health

By Lorraine Stevenson November 19, 2018

An Elie-area farm family didn’t know exactly what they were in for when they signed up for a short course on ‘nutrition farming’ a couple of years back. But the Boerschs, who farm a 5,000-acre commercial grain farm here, figured there had to be something to it. Alex Boersch, who’d left his grain trading career

Field day attendees get a look at the pivot-mounted radiometers, one of AAFC’s efforts to nail down variable-rate irrigation and mapping at Carberry’s CMCDC this year.

Crops, News

Potato researchers delve into variable-rate irrigation

Potato producers are hearing more about variable-rate technology, but researchers at Carberry are trying to dig up some concrete numbers on the technology

By Alexis Stockford November 5, 2018

If there’s a perfect recipe for success when it comes to variable-rate irrigation in potatoes, the researchers at the Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre (CMCDC) are still trying to find it. The idea of variable-rate irrigation is hardly new. As early as 2012, news of field trials was coming out of Alberta, although one of the

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Soil N trend surprising

A dry summer could have left a nice bonus for you in your fields

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 2, 2018

AGVISE Laboratories says the trend this fall is towards higher levels of residual nitrogen in Manitoba soils. The Northwood, North Dakota company says an early harvest has allowed producers to get a jump on fall soil testing, and its accumulated data from more than 3,000 wheat fields already. That’s been surprising to many producers who

Straw being loaded off a field in central Manitoba.

Crops

Feed your straw to the herd or feed the soil instead?

How much of a nutritional dent does baling straw make when that residue could have been chopped and spread?

By Alexis Stockford September 25, 2018

Livestock producers have been scrambling for their neighbours’ straw, but growers may have been reluctant to let it leave the field. Attractive straw prices went head to head with the desire to chop and spread as growers weighed the balance between a secondary income and the cost of exporting those nutrients rather than working them

Manitoba Agriculture soil management specialist Marla Riekman wants farmers to consider “tillage rotation.”

Crops, Local news

Consider tillage rotation for improved soil management

High-speed, aggressive tillage can erode fields, especially in hilly terrain

By Allan Dawson September 13, 2018

There’s crop rotation, herbicide rotation and now Marla Riekman is advocating for tillage rotation. “There is the idea of rotational tillage where you can use some of your tillage options and use them in the most appropriate spots in your crop rotation,” Manitoba Agriculture’s soil management specialist said in an interview Sept. 7. Riekman isn’t

Tillage erosion is gaining attention around the world as researchers get a better understanding of how tillage can move soil.

Crops

Get your topsoil moving

Landscape restoration can offer immediate yield boosts

By Julienne Isaacs August 22, 2018

If you farm in the Prairie pothole region, you’re dealing with some yield loss due to tillage erosion, says Marla Riekman, land management specialist for Manitoba Agriculture. The good news is there’s a relatively easy way to restore that lost yield potential: simply move the eroded topsoil back up the slope. Riekman was at this

The researchers studied Acmispon strigosus, a plant in the pea family that is native to the southwestern United States.

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Reach for the top

It’s not just soil microbes that set crops up for success — it’s the right ones

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 21, 2018

Beautiful things can happen when plants surround themselves with the right microbes, according to researchers at the University of California (Riverside). They looked at Acmispon strigosus, a plant in the pea family, and found a thirteenfold growth increase in plants that partnered with a highly effective strain of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Bradyrhizobium. The ability of

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That’s one rich ditch

Our History: May 1994

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 16, 2018

Both the U.S. Midwest and the Canadian Prairies suffered from too much moisture in 1993, but things had switched by the spring of 1994. This photo in our May 26 issue showed a ditch full of topsoil north of Carman, the result of gale-force winds on May 17. A recently bulldozed shelterbelt could be seen

Data represents reported seeding date and crop yields of fields >200 acres (2005-2013).

Crops, Local news

Cool soils? Seed cereals, field peas first

Manitoba soil temperatures are increasing, but vary with soil type and location

By Allan Dawson May 2, 2018

If soil temperatures are cool plant cereals and field peas first, says Manitoba Agriculture Farm Production Advisor Lionel Kaskiw, based in Souris. Soil temperatures are warming, but are still variable depending on soil type and location, he said during the Westman Crop Talk webinar May. 1. Soil temperature readings are available at 109 Manitoba Agriculture

Crops

Four ways to increase your organic matter

April 10, 2018

A question that I hear a lot is, “How do cover crops fit into a grain operation?” Lots of grain farmers have no desire to get into the livestock business and no interest in producing hay. But many have some soil issues that need to be addressed. This can be done by buying more iron

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Local farmer takes a ‘dietary requirements’ approach to soil health

Potato researchers delve into variable-rate irrigation

Soil N trend surprising

Feed your straw to the herd or feed the soil instead?

Consider tillage rotation for improved soil management

Get your topsoil moving

Reach for the top

That’s one rich ditch

Cool soils? Seed cereals, field peas first

Four ways to increase your organic matter

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