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More Family Celebrates 125 Years Of Farming In Western Manitoba

By Daniel Winters November 3, 2011

During the rush to settle the Prairies in the 1880s, thousands flocked to the promise of free land. Some hoped to turn a fast buck on a piece of land, while others hoped to put down permanent roots. Colin Thomas More, who arrived in Winnipeg from Bruce, Ontario, in 1882 with his wife Elizabeth and

Crops, News

Soil Testing Should Be A Priority This Fall

By Allan Dawson September 8, 2011

Don’t guess, soil test. That’s John Heard’s message to farmers this fall, especially in fields that didn’t get seeded or were flooded this spring. “In 2010, it looks like the average soil nitrogen level on fallow was about 60 pounds per acre, but that’s of no value to the individual farmer because he doesn’t know

News

Assistance Available For Restoring Eroded Land

By Allan Dawson September 8, 2011

Before some Manitoba farmers seed next spring they have weeds to work down, others have ruts to smooth out, while some have big washouts to repair in the wake of spring flooding. Farmers can apply for financial assistance to restore farmland scarred by water erosion, an official with Manitoba’s cabinet communications said last week. Each

Crops, Opinion

Unearthing The Potential

August 25, 2011

As I looked down at the thick mat of rotting vegetation PhD student Caroline Halde was holding up for me to peruse, it was hard to fathom – at first – why anyone but the most devoted of researchers would find this exciting. I was at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm

Crops, Opinion

Simple Solutions To The Food Challenge

By John Morriss July 7, 2011

Last month a milestone was marked in the history of world agriculture when the bovine disease rinderpest was officially declared eradicated. Though unknown in North America, rinderpest or “cattle plague” has been a devastating killer of cattle and wildlife for millennia in Europe, Africa and Asia. After smallpox, it’s only the second disease in history

Crops

Reading The Small Print In The Soil

April 28, 2011

What is a healthy soil? It is difficult to def ine that term so we prefer to use the term soil quality. Soil quality can be measured in terms of organic matter, fertility, texture, salinity, cation exchange capacity, pH and a number of other factors, all of which have identifiable quantitative numbers that can be

Crops, Oilseeds

Volunteer Corn Reduces Yield In Corn And Soybean Crops

March 24, 2011

Ohio’s Purdue University Extension Service reports that volunteer corn is causing major yield reductions to both corn and soybean crops. With 70 per cent of Indiana’s annual corn crop resistant to glyphosate, volunteer corn has become increasingly difficult to control. “We’re rotating Roundup Ready corn with our soybean crop, which is typically 95 per cent

Crops

Goss’s Wilt Firmly Established In Manitoba

By Allan Dawson February 24, 2011

The corn disease Goss’s Wilt is established in Manitoba and farmers will have to learn to manage it, says Wilt Billing, Pioneer Hi-Bred’s area agronomist for Manitoba. “Once a field has the disease, it has the disease,” Billing told farmers during the Manitoba Special Crops Symposium Feb. 10 in Winnipeg. “It’s not going away.” Yield

Crops, Forages

No-Tillers Tap Benefits Of Underground Livestock

By Daniel Winters February 17, 2011

North Dakota grain farmer Glenn Bauer is reaping the benefits of “livestock” in his operation – but you’d need a microscope to see most of them. “We don’t have any cows, but we’ve got a lot of livestock that we try to feed below the surface,” Bauer said during a panel presentation on no-till soil

News

Feed The Soil So It Can Feed The Crop

By Daniel Winters February 10, 2011

Crop yields in a slump? Disease and insect probalems rife? Input costs chewing up profit margins every year? Before you cur se the weather, bugs, or chemical companies, you might want to consider another cause: Declining soil quality. Modern farming has developed a host of quick-fix solutions but the beneficial effects are temporary if you

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