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AGI to buy into soil microbe breeding firm

Machinery maker to take minority stake in MyLand

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 15, 2021

A U.S. company ramping up a system to harvest, reproduce and restore beneficial microbes from a field’s own soils, as a way to restore peak fertility, expects to get backing soon from a Canadian farm equipment maker. Winnipeg-based Ag Growth International (AGI) said Monday it has signed a conditional letter of intent with Phoenix-based MyLand

A best-case scenario for agriculture would be to get back to the pre-agriculture state of carbon sequestration, but even that’s a tall order, a new NFU report says.

Farmit Manitoba

Carbon offsets not the right policy says NFU

The National Farmers Union says to instead incentivize farmers to preserve and enhance their soil

By Allan Dawson May 31, 2021

[UPDATED: June 4, 2021] Carbon offsets for Canadian farmers aren’t the way to mitigate climate change in Canada, according to the National Farmers Union (NFU). Paying farmers to store more carbon in their soil by selling credits to carbon emitters is touted as a way for farmers to earn more revenue and cut carbon emissions.

A very dry period caused a major bout of blowing dust earlier this month, seen here near the outskirts of Portage la Prairie.

Crops, News

No rush to roll pulses

Dry soil might make this a good year for post-emergence field rolling, according to experts

By Alexis Stockford May 28, 2021

Producers may want to adopt their dry-weather mentality when it comes to managing pulse acres. For many Manitoba growers, it’s time for field rolling once crops like soybeans are safely in the ground. But Dennis Lange, a pulse specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development, says rolling should not be automatic. Instead, he argues, producers should be actively gauging whether rolling is

A certified crop adviser says Canadian farmers are losing close to $3 billion a year due to lost productivity caused by degraded, unhealthy soil.

Crops, News, Other

Tending to your farm’s factory floor: its soil

The health of your farmland can have a big impact on your bottom line

By Gord Leathers May 18, 2021

In any manufacturing business productivity is a matter of managing the building, the machinery and the workforce to put the product together in a cost-effective way. In farming, soil is the factory floor and growing a profitable crop is a matter of managing the biology and chemistry of the field within the limits imposed by

Flea beetle. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops, Weather

Forecast, flea beetles complicate canola timing

Dry conditions make ideal seeding time difficult to peg

By Alexis Stockford, GFM Network News May 15, 2021

Drought conditions, and the odds of more to come, have some Prairie canola growers pondering when to roll the dice on seeding, if they want to do more than feed the flea beetles. Small-seeded crops, such as canola, have garnered particular concern from agronomists and producers worried about germination, given power dry topsoil across much

Many people with livestock are searching for grazing land and a growing number of farmers are thinking about integrating livestock into their farms.

News

MOA soil health project to match livestock producers, landowners

Livestock integration, reduced tillage, perennials and cover crops to get a boost on organic farms with Conservation Trust funding

By Geralyn Wichers May 13, 2021

A website that will pair landowners with livestock producers in search of grazing land, and a cost-shared consultant agronomy program are two projects the Manitoba Organic Alliance (MOA) is taking on in a project called “Improving soil stewardship on Manitoba organic farms” funded by the Conservation Trust. “Organic farms are really well positioned to be

Salinity issues turn field edges in southwestern Manitoba white this spring.

Farmit Manitoba, Other

Plan now for a salty spring

Manitoba’s dry conditions have done little to beat back salinity in areas prone to the issue

By Alexis Stockford May 5, 2021

Snow wasn’t the only white creeping across Manitoba’s fields this spring, and unlike snow, this white stuff won’t be melting away. High salinity is not a surprising topic for provincial soil specialist Marla Riekman, given the province’s still-dry conditions and the rise in salinity questions she’s fielded from producers in the last few years. Salinity

News

Fertilizing tips for dry soil if you didn’t apply last fall

One option is safe amounts with the seed and topping up later if the crop looks good

By Allan Dawson April 23, 2021

Dry soils increase the risk of in-row fertilizer damaging early plant stands, but there are things farmers can do to make it safer, says John Heard, a soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development (MARD). “We like to take as much nitrogen and sulphur out of the seed row as possible in order

Take a systematic approach to improving the ecosystems beneath your feet.

Crops, Farmit Manitoba

There’s a teeming world of diversity and complexity in your field’s soil

This soil ecologist says six principles can be applied to improve soil health

By Gord Leathers March 16, 2021

Soil is more than just dirt, a place where plants put down roots to grow seeds. It’s a complex ecology, teeming with infinite varieties of flora, fauna, microbes and minerals that provide both the raw materials and machinery to build crops and livestock. It’s a factory floor with a lot of moving parts and we’re

... the health of one soil can be very different from the health of another and both are healthy.” – David Lobb, University of Manitoba.

Crops, Farmit Manitoba

Soil health a moving target

There’s no one-size-fits-all measure of soil health, David Lobb says

By Gord Leathers March 16, 2021

Saying a soil is ‘healthy’ isn’t something simple like running through a checklist. David Lobb, a soil scientist at the University of Manitoba says it’s a moving target that takes many variables into account. There are hundreds of different soils across the province, thousands across the country and the development of each one moves toward

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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