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Crops, News

Organic industry pushes back on regulatory changes

Sector spokespersons say moving rules governing organic production under a 
larger regulatory framework will limit market opportunities and create 
needless new certification requirements

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A spokesperson with Canadian Organic Growers (COG) says the organic industry is confident it’s made a strong case against having its rules shifted into a larger regulatory framework. At issue is the migration of the Organic Products Regulation (OPR) into the Safe Foods for Canadians regulation. In 2012, the passage of the Safe Foods for
A simple pair of cotton underwear can tell you a surprising amount about your soil health.
Crops

Planning for a bumper crop of underwear

The Soil Conservation Council of Canada is hoping underwear will be neither tight nor white 
after two months in the ground

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Cotton underwear should be the latest tool producers use to measure soil health. Soil Your Undies, a campaign pushed by the Soil Conservation Council of Canada as part of its 30th annual awareness week April 16-22, encourages Canadians to bury a pair of cotton underwear for two months. If soil is healthy, with a healthy
Getting an early start is every farmer’s goal, but sometimes too early can be a problem.
Crops

You may be ready for seeding, but is your land?

That early start to seeding is desirable, but not without some risks to manage

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There’s little doubt that in recent years Manitoba farmers have been getting the crop in earlier and earlier. More tracked tractors, different seeder designs, management changes such as getting more work done in the fall and the ability to place more fertilizer at seeding time, has all added up, says Rejean Picard, a farm production
Manitoba Agriculture’s John Heard says many farmers are being forced to 
adjust their fertility strategy after a tough fall.

Crops

Farmers adjust fertility plans after tough fall

There’s still plenty of opportunity to get nitrogen on if you missed the fall application window

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While spring banding of fertilizer has become more popular recently, there’s still plenty of growers putting it down in the fall. That is, unless they run into a season like last year. Many farmers throughout Manitoba struggled to just get the crop off, never mind getting their fall work done. Now they’re left with the
soil
Comment, Crops

Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world

It’s sustainability, not one production system or the other, that is the real solution

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One of the biggest modern myths about agriculture is that organic farming is inherently sustainable. It can be, but it isn’t necessarily. After all, soil erosion from chemical-free tilled fields undermined the Roman Empire and other ancient societies around the world. Other agricultural myths hinder recognizing the potential to restore degraded soils to feed the
A lygus bug prepares to wreak havoc on a canola plant.
Crops, Oilseeds

Shining a light on the creepy crawly side of agriculture

Entomologist John Gavloski is warning producers to maintain beneficial bugs found in crops

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Not all bugs are made equal and entomologist John Gavloski is warning producers of “collateral damage” in their beneficial insects. “Certainly we’ve got insects that feed on the crops, but we’ve also got a lot of beneficial insects that feed on those insects that feed on the crops and when those are numerous, often the
Tom Sewell shared how he went to complete no-till seeding in Britain.
Crops

British no-tillers worry about potential loss of glyphosate

But Tom Sewell says he’ll still find a way to continue his no-till system

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A pioneer in British no-till farming said there’s a good chance European farmers will lose access to glyphosate. “It’s a French and German thing,” said Tom Sewell at the Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario conference recently in London. The politics of those two countries mean that there is pressure to ban the herbicide which is
Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: Family feud

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Everyone has that cousin, uncle or sibling. You love them, they’re family after all, but sometimes you just don’t like them much. Maybe it’s their insistence on talking about their controversial politics over Christmas dinner. Perhaps it’s the way they can’t just talk about how much they like their new tractor without running down yours.
University of Manitoba professor, Martin Entz says tensions between conventional and organic producers appear to be softening.
Crops, Local news

Organic agriculture no panacea: study

Too many uncertainties exist to say it’s the only solution

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Organic agriculture has benefits but it is not a silver bullet for global food security, a new study says. Too much scientific uncertainty exists for organic agriculture to be considered a better alternative to conventional farming, says the study by two University of British Columbia researchers. “(O)rganic agriculture cannot be the Holy Grail for our
Speaker Clayton Robins gives a first-hand account of cover crops as used on his own operation in Rivers, Man., Mar. 1.
Crops, Local news

Soil management, cover crops and recouping costs explored

Farm-specific cover crop integration was the backbone of the latest Manitoba Forage and Grassland Association grazing club workshop

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Clayton Robins knows something about fighting soil salinity. His farm, located near Rivers, Man., sits on top of what he’s described as “starry night” soil, speckled with white pockets of high salt content. It’s an issue he says has largely disappeared since he first added a secondary NS simultaneous crop focused on soil management rather

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