Letters – for Mar. 5, 2009

Where’s the beef… plan? The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) is very good at name-calling, but sadly lacking when it comes to laying out a coherent plan for increasing the money that farmers and ranchers are receiving for cattle sales. The CCA affiliates in each province except Alberta collect a checkoff of $2 per head for

Sunflowers average in 2008

Manitoba farmers harvested a generally average sunflower crop in 2008, despite ongoing disease and insect problems. Producers reaped an average 1,480 pounds per acre of confectionery and oil-type sunflowers from 182,000 planted acres, according to provincial crop insurance figures. That compared favourably with the long-term four-year average yield of 1,460 pounds per acre from an


Steps to mitigate sunflower rust next year

“Sunflower rust does not require an alternate host like cereal rust does.” – KHALID RASHID Sunflower rust cut yields and bushel weight significantly in some Manitoba fields this year. Seventy-four per cent of the sunflower fields surveyed in Manitoba this year had rust ranging from a trace to 40 per cent of the leaf area