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Canada thistles pop through on one of the fields  still under recovery at Green Beach Farm & Food.

Selling the system

Managing with an eye to soil health makes fertile ground for direct marketing

By Alexis Stockford January 4, 2023

The Koscielny family farm near Strathclair doesn’t have many acres to work with but it makes a big impression. The farm, Green Beach Farm & Food, covers five quarters, about 200 acres of which grow grain. Much of the land base is perennial forage, feeding the Koscielny’s herd of grass-fed beef. The family finishes animals

Jim Warren, a soil scientist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, delineates the earth’s upper soil layers in a pit during the Harnessing the Power of Soil Health at the Grand River Raceway event where Senator Rob Black announced the national soil health study launching in the fall.

News, Other

National soil health study set to launch

It’s been decades since the last study was completed in 1984

By Diana Martin August 17, 2022

Glacier FarmMedia – The Canadian Senate plans to launch a new national soil health study this autumn. “The last study was done in 1984, chaired by Senator Herbert Sparrow,” said Senator Rob Black. “When I got into the chamber four and a half years ago, I set my sights on another Senate study.” Black announced

The plant species Arabidopsis thaliana is seen sprouting at a University of Florida laboratory in a small amount of lunar regolith — soil from the moon — on May 5, 2021. (Photo: Tyler Jones, UF/IFAS Lunar Plants Research Documentation/Handout via Reuters)

Crops

In one giant leap for Earth plants, seeds are grown in moon soil

By GFM Network News, Will Dunham May 13, 2022

Washington | Reuters — Scientists for the first time have grown seeds in soil from the moon — samples retrieved during NASA missions in 1969 and 1972 — in an achievement that heralds the promise of using earthly plants to support human outposts on other worlds. Researchers said on Thursday they planted seeds of a

The research team that discovered the bioinoculants at the BioCision fermentation facility this spring. Top row, left to right: John Sorensen, Rob Gulden. Middle row: Scot Wushke, Vikram Bisht. Bottom row: Stan Lozecznik, Tajinder Kainth, Richard Sparling, Bert Smith. Missing: April Johnson.

News

Phosphorus boosters and broad-spectrum antifungal found in Prairie soils

Researchers say naturally occurring microbes can make phosphorus more readily available

By Gord Gilmour May 11, 2022

A group of Manitoba researchers have isolated two naturally occurring micro-organisms they say will help farmers better utilize phosphorus and fight plant diseases. The work of the scientists, from the University of Manitoba and KGS Group, has centred around two novel bacterium dubbed KGS-2 and KGS-3. Stan Lozecznik, senior environmental engineer with KGS Group, said

Think of soil aggregates like the frame of a house, giving that building its shape and strength.

Crops, News

How to improve your soil architecture

Cover crops can help form better soil aggregates and soil structure

By Gord Leathers April 18, 2022

A lot of architecture is about bearing weight and many of the buildings on your property do this with two basic shapes. The triangle, that you see in your rafters, or the arch, as in the double 2×4 header over your garage door, are important weight distributors. They allow you to have large amounts of

There are many microbes that are used as biofertilizers, including bacteria and fungi, and the most common application is to improve crop nutrient status.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Unintended consequences of bioproducts

Adding fungi to soil may introduce invasive species, threatening ecosystems

By Miranda Hart April 11, 2022

Invasive, alien species are bad for ecosystems. They reduce biodiversity and disrupt food chains, including our own. History is full of examples of intentional and unintentional introductions of invasive species. VIDEO: Struvite shows promise as organic fertilizer The introduction of cane toads to Northern Australia in the 1930s to fight cane beetles led to the

Aerial and satellite imagery, combined with machine learning, could give large-scale soil carbon readings as robust as soil sampling.

News, Other

New path to monitor soil carbon

An eye in the sky and machine-learning methods could be as accurate as old-fashioned soil testing

By University Of Illinois April 7, 2022

Just how much carbon is in the soil? That’s a tough question to answer at large spatial scales, but understanding soil organic carbon at regional, national or global scales could help scientists predict overall soil health, crop productivity and even worldwide carbon cycles. Classically, researchers collect soil samples in the field and haul them back

File photo of a P.E.I. potato field against the backdrop of the Confederation Bridge. (Onepony/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

P.E.I. table stock potato exports to U.S. now allowed

New U.S. order replaces previous requirements; seed potatoes still blocked

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 2, 2022

Exports of Prince Edward Island table stock potatoes are again officially allowed to enter the mainland United States, after new U.S. entry rules regarding potato wart were published Friday. Canada’s federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said on Twitter that officials with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) are now preparing to certify exports of eligible

Soil compaction can wring out your soil’s sponge ability.

Crops, News

Saving your soil sponge

It’s in the voids that your fields find their life

By Gord Leathers March 29, 2022

“When it comes to soil, “… it’s all about the matrix.” Not the futuristic film, but the morphology. The soil structure. The ‘architecture.’ That’s according to soil scientist Francisco Arriaga from the University of Wisconsin, when talking about soil compaction at the recent 2022 Northern Soil Compaction Conference, hosted by the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition

An idea to take food waste and turn it into a charcoal-like product aims to bolster soil carbon and divert it away from landfills.

News

Manitoba company locks funds for biochar development

Carbon Lock Technologies hopes to recycle carbon from food waste into farm fields

By Alexis Stockford February 23, 2022

A local company’s plan to turn food waste into stable biocarbon, which can then be used as a soil additive, has earned them eight months of federal support. Carbon Lock Technologies was one of 18 companies, and the only Manitoba business, to be named a semi-finalist in the novel technologies stream of the federal government’s

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slide under pressure from weak cash prices

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola likely to remain rangebound

U.S. grains: Soybean futures ease from 17-month peak as traders gauge China buying pace

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