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Excess Water Management Initiative Funded

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The governments of Canada and Manitoba have announced an investment of over $860,000 towards the Rural Municipality of Bifrost Excess Water Management Model initiative to help develop a more comprehensive approach to a sustainable water management system for agricultural lands. The Rural Municipality of Bifrost will also provide an in-kind contribution of $24,000. The initiative
Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock

What Eats Grass And Is Worth $2.25/Lb. On The Rail?

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Jim Lintott’s biggest problem selling grass-fed beef at the St. Norbert Farmers Market last summer was not having enough to sell to all the people clamouring to buy it. “We have more market than we actually have supply,” said Lintott, president of the Manitoba Grass-Fed Beef Association speaking on the sidelines of the recent Manitoba
Crops

Vietnam Aims To Boost Rice Crop For Food Security

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Vietnam vowed to maintain current rice crop areas and boost yields to ensure supplies remain adequate in the face of demand pressures from a fast-growing population as well as the effects of climate change. The government’s pledge of security of food supplies touched a key agenda topic at two conferences that opened in Hanoi recently,
Crops

Food Security Risk If Crop Biodiversity Lost

Future global food security may be at risk unless greater efforts are made to conserve and use the genetic diversity of cultivated crops and their wild relatives, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. The world’s cereals output needs to rise by one billion tonnes a year by 2050 to feed a population that
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Phosphorus Depletion An Ongoing Concern

The excess moisture that has plagued Manitoba’s Interlake forced Bragi Simundsson to cut back on his organic operation last year. “If you can’t cultivate for over a year, you’re pretty much beat trying to be organic,” says Simundsson, who had as many as six quarters of his 2,000-acre mixed grain farm near Arborg certified. Organic
Crops

Federal Support For Organic Marketing

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Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has announced an investment of more than $150,000 to assist the Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA) in promoting Canada’s high-quality organic products to consumers abroad. COTA is one of several organic organizations across the country that is partnering to make Organic Week Oct. 11 to 16 a success. “This investment will
Crops

Organic Agriculture Is The Future

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Does organic agriculture have a future? For some, such as well-known plant scientist E. Ann Clark, organic is the future. In a paper released earlier this year, the University of Guelph professor joined those who say that the end of cheap oil will mean the end of conventional agriculture as it’s currently practised. “(T)he future
Crops, News

Blending Farmer Innovation With Science

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A60-bushel-per-acre crop of wheat would make any farmer proud, but how about one that was grown without pesticides or non-organic fertilizer? That’s how organic wheat yielded last year on a 1.5-acre field plot at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm at Carman. The average wheat yield in the R. M. of Dufferin,
Opinion

Our “Response Ability”

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But can it feed the world? The question routinely arises when the conversation turns to organic agriculture. Conventional wisdom says organic agriculture is a nice niche for those who can afford to pay the higher premiums as compensation for the farmers’ lower yields. But the production system can’t possibly achieve the productivity that will be

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