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Start Composting

June 16, 2011

Starting a compost pile is as easy as following a cooking recipe. Just get the right ingredients together, mix well and let it cook. In a matter of months you’ll have finished “black gold” to mix into the soil of your flower, herb and vegetable gardens. Compost ingredients Compost is decomposed or well-rotted organic material.

Cereals, Crops, Forages

Crop Report – for May. 26, 2011

By Manitoba Agriculture May 26, 2011

SOUTHWEST REGION Seeding is about 10 per cent complete throughout the region with some areas reporting as high as 30 per cent. Warm, dry weather at the beginning of the week helped to dry fields allowing producers to seed, but widespread weekend rainfall brought seeders again to a standstill. Reports of 40-60 mm in the

Crops, Forages

Crop Report – for May. 19, 2011

By Manitoba Agriculture May 19, 2011

SOUTHWEST REGION Seeding has just begun only on fields that can be travelled on. Hard red spring wheat and canola have been the crops most producers are concentrating on. Rainfall of 15-35 mm at the beginning of the week delayed seeding and field work to the weekend. Warm weather and wind over the weekend helped

Cereals, Crops

Massive Crop Losses Feared In U.S. South

By Carey Gillam May 12, 2011

The worst drought in more than 40 years has intensified across Texas with high winds and heat causing “massive crop losses,” and with little relief in sight, according to weather experts April 28. A report released from a consortium of national climate experts, dubbed the Drought Monitor, said drought worsened along the Texas border with

Crops

Reading The Small Print In The Soil

April 28, 2011

What is a healthy soil? It is difficult to def ine that term so we prefer to use the term soil quality. Soil quality can be measured in terms of organic matter, fertility, texture, salinity, cation exchange capacity, pH and a number of other factors, all of which have identifiable quantitative numbers that can be

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Tips For Analyzing Your Canola Crop’s Fertilizer Needs

By Canola Council Of Canada April 21, 2011

Canola fertility needs have never been higher. And with current field conditions, soil fertility levels have never been so uncertain. The following tips will help growers find solutions to meet the nutritional demands of their high-yielding genetics. Canola growers last year could be divided into three camps: wet fields, dry fields or high yields. No

Crops

Climate Change A Mixed Bag For Farming On The Prairies

By Ron Friesen April 14, 2011

In an 1860 report to the British government, Captain John Palliser recommended against settling the southern Canadian Prairies because he considered the area too arid and poorly suited for farming. Now, a century and a half later, his words may be prescient. The Palliser Triangle, a 200,000-square-km area named after the 19th century explorer and

Cereals, Crops, Forages

Two Growers Needed To Try Something New

By Daniel Winters April 7, 2011

Ever wonder what would happen if you just dumped a shotgun blast of legume, cereal and brassica seeds into the seeder and drilled it in? Two or more growers in the southwest and southeast corners of the province are needed to do just that, as MAFRI’s polycrop trial enters its second year. “The multicropping thing,

Country Crossroads

Give Seeds A Good Start

March 31, 2011

During March and April avid gardeners are busy planting seeds to produce plants for their upcoming outdoor gardens. To achieve success, use of correct materials is essential and no other single material is quite as important as the planting medium in which the seeds are planted. All else will be in vain if a suitable

Cereals, Opinion

Letters – for Mar. 3, 2011

March 3, 2011

In “Delaying the drainage” (editorial, Feb. 3) you referred to the Red River Basin report about storing water upstream, with an estimated 885,000 acres of one foot of storage being adequate to reduce peak levels. This probably wouldn’t take up 885,000 acres because some storage would be more than one foot deep, but nonetheless it

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans mixed on doubts over Chinese demand

Tyson Foods to close U.S. beef plant as cattle supplies dwindle

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures dip as Brazilian beef tariffs lifted

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