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Gordon McPhee, Dauphin
. 1935 –
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Agricultural Hall of Fame: Gordon McPhee

Four Manitobans were inducted into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Portage la Prairie July 14. Over the next few weeks, we’re featuring each one with their citations

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For most of his career, Gordon McPhee has played a major role in preserving one of our most precious resources, the soil and working with the agricultural industry towards sustainable development. Together with his wife Mary, Gordon has always been able to look at what was happening on farms and then be quick to acknowledge
Patrick Walther speaks to a group of farmers during the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers annual SMART day in Carman.
Crops, Local news

There’s an economic case for strip till

The technique can save time and organic matter when it comes to soybean production

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While strip till has long been shown to have ecological benefits, a recent field day at the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm suggests there are also economic ones for producers to consider. “We have basically made a case study where we compare one pass, versus two passes,” said Patrick Walther, speaking to a group of
The FAO’s principles of sustainability say yield should not be the only criterion for farming, and that current intensification is detrimental to crop and animal biodiversity.
Comment, News & Opinion

Defining just what ‘sustainable agriculture’ really means

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The term ‘sustainable agriculture’ is used often, but what does it mean? The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently issued these five principles to define sustainable agriculture. 1. Improving efficiency in the use of resources is crucial to sustainable agriculture. Modifying current practices can do much to improve the productivity of many food
Manitoba conservation districts are looking at establishing soil health programs to demonstrate how to increase water infiltration.
Crops, Local news

Conservation districts aim to improve water infiltration

Cover crops could be the key to building higher organic matter and catching water

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The best place to store water is where it falls. That’s the conclusion of four Manitoba conservation districts that are banding together to launch a new project that will demonstrate how to build organic matter in soil and make it a sink for rainfall and meltwater. “Our surface water management strategy has been built on
Gabe Brown is pictured while hosting a field tour on his North Dakota operation in October 2015.
Crops

Cover cropping – tips of the trade

Cover crop grower Gabe Brown says the best place to start when designing a species mix is to understand what your field needs and find the species that best addresses those issues

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The first step to success using cover crops is defining the problem you need to fix. Gabe Brown, a North Dakota farmer and cover crop advocate, told an April 6 Ducks Unlimited grazing club meeting in Lenore that too often farmers plant before they truly have a strategy. “The first thing you need to do
Cutaway of Plant and Roots in Dirt
Comment, Crops

Healthy soils mean a sustainable future

Causes, consequences of and solutions to soil erosion are always connected

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Healthy societies and healthy economies are the product of healthy soil. Healthy soil produces abundant inexpensive food in a sustainable and reliable way. This requires soil care on the part of land managers and courage on the part of policy-makers who oversee soil protection. Scientists who understand soil formation tell us the only sustainable way
A pea/oat/tillage radish cover crop seeded in early August, pictured on October 17.
Crops

Cover crops breaking out of livestock niche

Benefits of cover crops shown to accrue to grain portion of mixed operations, causing some without livestock to consider them

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Cover crops could be a game changer for Manitoba, and not just for mixed crop and livestock operations. Typically those farms have been the earliest adopters of this new technique, said Michael Thiele, who works with the province’s grazing clubs through a Ducks Unlimited program. “These guys growing cover crops are finding that using and
North Dakota producer, Gabe Brown spoke on cover crops and soil health strategies at the Ducks Unlimited grazing club event in Lenore on April 6.
Livestock

Taking grazing-management tips from Mother Nature

Gabe Brown says his success in cover cropping has come through 
observing and mimicking nature’s processes

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North Dakota farmer and cover crop and soil health expert Gabe Brown says if farmers give the techniques he advocates an honest try they’ll be hooked. “Take one field and promise yourself that for five years you will focus on the principles of soil health,” said Brown. If you stick with it for those five
Soil health is getting better, but there is still plenty of work to do.
Crops

Soil Conservation Week highlights land stewardship, public education

Soil conservation makes land more productive, but the benefits go well beyond that

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There are few things more important than the soil beneath our feet and this week — National Soil Conservation Week — highlights just how critical it is. Running Apr. 17 to 23, this year the focus is the importance of land stewardship for soil and other resources under the care of the agriculture industry, Paul
Most fields may have dried out from floods in 2010 and 2011, but there’s a lingering effect from compaction and poor aeration.
Crops, Weather

A wet cycle has caused some farmers to rethink zero till

Seeding & Tillage Focus: As the province’s wet cycle appears poised to break, soil compaction is a lingering after-effect

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The past few years have been a bit hard on zero till in Manitoba. Faced with a flood followed by a long wet cycle, more and more farmers in the southwest part of the province were forced to do something they thought they’d left in the past — pull out their tillage implements. Their aim,

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