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Universe In A Clump Of Dirt

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“If you build it, they will come.” – KRIS NICHOLS Uproot a plant in healthy soil, and you’ll see tiny pellets clinging to the roots. To most people, that’s just dirt. But to farmers in the know, those hard little clumps represent whole towns and cities of soil biota that work together night and day
Opinion

Farming Must Change To Feed The World

The world’s farmers must quickly switch to more sustainable and productive farming systems to grow the food needed by a swelling world population and respond to climate change, FAO’s top crops expert told an international farm congress Feb. 4. In a keynote speech to 1,000 participants at the IVth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (CA)
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UN Agency Promotes Organic For Africa

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“Even in this current economic crisis, where demand for most products is dropping fast, demand for organic products continues to grow.” Demand for organic foods will keep growing despite the world economic crisis, creating an opportunity for farmers in poor countries, the United Nations’ trade and development agency said Feb 9. In a research note,
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Nitrogen Miser

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As every agronomy student knows, three things are required to produce a crop moisture, sunlight and nutrients. The challenge is to make sure crops receive just the right amount of each, at just the proper time. Managing nutrients especially nitrogen is one of the greatest challenges. That’s because even if the proper amount is applied
Cereals, Crops

CWB backs organic sector development

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Eight new research and k n owl e d g e -s h a r i n g projects on organic grain production will get a financial boost from the Canadian Wheat Board. The board on Jan. 28 announced a new round of funding worth $200,000 in 2009 through its Organic Sector Market Development Initiative
News, Oilseeds

Sanitation key to keeping clubroot out of Manitoba

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The best way to keep clubroot from damaging canola yields is to do whatever it takes to keep it out of your fields, Manitoba Agriculture’s plant pathologist told farmers attending Manitoba Ag Days recently. “For clubroot to occur, the pathogen needs to be present in the field,” Philip Northover said. That seems like stating the
Crops

New twists on growing nitrogen, building soil organic matter

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It is well known that alfalfa and other legumes in a crop rotation fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil. What may be less widely understood, however, is the extra boost that more diverse crop rotations offer to long-term yields in the form of increased organic matter. This phenomenon is described by soil scientists
News

New executive director for Soil Conservation Canada

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Retired soil conservationist Glen Shaw has been hired as the new executive director of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada. He will be based at Indian Head, Sask. Shaw replaces Doug McKell, who steps down from the executive post after seven years. Shaw started his career with Saskatchewan’s Agriculture Department, then moved to Manitoba Agriculture
Crops

High prices make fertilizer a tougher sell

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“In essence, soil tests work only when soils are severely phosphorus deficient.” – RIGAS KARAMANOS, VITERRA Bill Toews saw the price of phosphate fertilizer in the fall of 2007 and decided he’d wait until spring before purchasing what he usually applies to his land near Kane. However, by spring 2008 prices had soared from $600
News

Soil science prof joins Agri-Trend

Soil scientist Geza Racz, a professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and former head of its soil science department, has joined Agri-Trend Agrology as a senior agri-coach. Racz’s fields of expertise and research are in the reactions and fate of various elements in soil – nitrogen, phosphorus and minor elements such as zinc and

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