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Work with nature or pay the price, says ex-grain farmer

By Daniel Winters February 23, 2013

Holistic management instructor calls for adoption of farming methods  that restore soil health and make farmers prosperous

Don’t talk to Blain Hjertaas about “sustainability.” The farmer and holistic management instructor from Redvers, Sask., can’t stand that word. “I hate the word ‘sustainable,’” Hjertaas told the recent Western Canada Holistic Management conference. “If we’re in the toilet bowl, and we keep sustaining it, we aren’t ever getting out.” Hjertaas’s presentation juxtaposed the decline

Crops, Oilseeds, Opinion

Sequence and intervals

By Laura Rance-Unger February 15, 2013

Ask a room full of agronomists what’s significant about the year 1993 and the word “fusarium” ripples through the crowd. It was a memorable year. Much of the wheat in Manitoba, particularly in the Red River Valley, was contaminated with fusarium head blight disease, which affects yields but also creates toxins that can affect human

Crops, News

Manitobans honoured by Man-Dak

February 15, 2013

Staff / Two Manitobans were recipients of awards at the recent Manitoba North Dakota Zero Tillage Association in Bismarck, South Dakota. John Heard, a soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives received the non-farmer-of-the year award for his work over the past 20 years in helping farmers understand the agronomy related to

Crops, News

Farmers need to take on sustainability issues

By Alex Binkley February 15, 2013

The push for green certification isn’t going away, but there can be an upside for farmers, say two experts with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. There’s no doubt the proliferation of sustainability standards are confusing and time consuming for farmers, especially as they employ different auditing systems, said Greg Meredith, assistant deputy minister in the Strategic

Crops

Tight supplies and growing organic demand signals brighter days

By Lorraine Stevenson January 30, 2013

Tight supplies and growing demand mean organic farmers can anticipate decent prices for 2013. “It’s definitely a good time to be in organics,” Leslie Johnson, marketing manager of Growers International Organic Sales (GIOSI) told a small gathering of organic farmers at Ag Days last week. “Prices are on the rebound with interest in

News, Opinion

Shelterbelts make the landscape more resilient and sustainable

By Louise Bellet January 30, 2013

New research is exploring another crucial ecosystem function to agriculture — the role shelterbelts play  in maintaining soil fertility by sustaining soil biological activity

Scientists and environmental agencies inform us that agriculture on the prairie, like in most parts of the world, is becoming more vulnerable as climate changes, energy cost rises and natural resources including organic matter and biodiversity are depleted. This increased vulnerability not only threatens food security at a global scale (the Canadian Prairies contributes to

Crops, Forages, Livestock, News, Other livestock

Bison do double duty on organic farm

By Daniel Winters January 17, 2013

Unlike many organic farmers, John Finnie isn’t always scrambling for manure — he has 150 helpers in that task. His herd of Plains bison are a perfect fit on his 1,000-acre certified organic operation near Kenton, northwest of Brandon, he says. “I like to look at them as being a very large piece of machinery,”

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Is it time to rethink your phosphorus management?

By Angela Lovell January 6, 2013

Farmers may need to rethink their phosphorus management due to the dramatic shift in Manitoba acres towards canola and soybeans at the expense of cereals, an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher says. Cynthia Grant, a soil management and fertility specialist with the Brandon Research Centre told the Manitoba Agronomy Conference farmers are growing more crops

Livestock, News

Farm groups should track CCA sustainability move

By Alex Binkley January 4, 2013

The move by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association to join an international group that promotes sustainable agriculture is being hailed as a model for other farm groups. The cattle producers’ organization recently joined the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, whose members range from Cargill, JBS and McDonald’s to the World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and

Crops, News

Organic farmers reject call to self-insure against GM contamination

By Carey Gillam November 30, 2012

Organic growers and food safety advocates are condemning an advisory report to the Agriculture Department claiming its recommendations would be costly for farmers who want to protect their conventional crops from being contaminated by genetically modified varieties. The USDA is studying how biotech agriculture could best “coexist” with organic and conventional farming, but critics slammed

Daily Network News

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

Australian farmers shift to less fertilizer-intensive crops as Iran war costs surge

India, Japan canola crops to be steady in 2026/27 – USDA

Tag Archives Sustainable agriculture

Work with nature or pay the price, says ex-grain farmer

Sequence and intervals

Manitobans honoured by Man-Dak

Tight supplies and growing organic demand signals brighter days

Bison do double duty on organic farm

Is it time to rethink your phosphorus management?

Organic farmers reject call to self-insure against GM contamination

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