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Changing Of The Guard At Deerwood

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Local lore has it that one of the reasons Bill Turner devoted more than two decades of his life to seemingly mundane tasks such as capping off abandoned wells dates back to his childhood. As a nine-year-old, Turner was peering down an old well shaft when a mischievous older schoolboy gave him a little nudge
Crops, Oilseeds

Wet Last Year, Maybe Wet Again This Year

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Last year’s deluge will make for some interesting agronomic issues for canola growers this spring, Derwyn Hammond, senior agronomy specialist for the Canola Council of Canada told farmers attending Ag Days. Denitrification in low spots, soil compaction from last summer’s abortive attempts at field work, and weed issues are all things to look out for,
Opinion

Environment And Agriculture: Talking The Talk Or Walking The Walk

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The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Lake Winnipeg Basin Summit has come and gone, and I think most participants would agree that it was a resounding success. To quote IISD director Hank Venema, “This summit has moved us closer to a unified effort under the umbrella leadership of IISD.” The issues surrounding the degraded level
Crops, Oilseeds

Farmers Support GE Crops, Saskatchewan Researcher Says

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A poll conducted among Prairie farmers has found widespread support for herbicide- tolerant crops, says a University of Saskatchewan researcher. The poll also showed arguments from groups opposed to genetically engineered varieties don’t ring true with producers, Stuart Smyth, who was raised on a Saskatchewan farm, told the Grow Canada conference. Farmers are using less
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Value Adding Important Part Of The Package

erard and Marie DeRuyck decided it was time to find a different way to farm in 2000 after spending buckets of money to seed, spray and harvest – only to have yields decimated by fusarium. The following year Gerard broke up 25 acres of pasture and sowed oats, sans synthetic inputs. Their son Dan and
Opinion

Bipole III Absurdities – for Aug. 19, 2010

In response to Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk’s statement regarding cultivating beneath power lines in the July 22 issue of theManitoba Co-operator,I would invite the minister to explain how exactly you get a 45-foot cultivator under a tower that has a footprint of 23-feet to a side. A farmer with big implements will not be able
Opinion

End Of An Era – for Jul. 29, 2010

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It was dry in the late 1980s, and farmers were told by the herbicide manufacturer that’s why their favoured herbicide – trifluralin (Treflan) – wasn’t doing its job. But two public extension workers in Manitoba, the late Ian Morrison, a weed scientist with the University of Manitoba, and Barry Todd with the soils and crops
Cereals, Crops, Forages

No Shortage Of Topics For Crop School

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“Zero-till is harder in wheat stubble and strip-till seems to be a way to deal with it.” – JOHN HEARD John Heard and his Crop Diagnostic School team have taken the advice that when life delivers lemons, you make lemonade. All that rain that’s hurting Manitoba crops has also hit the diagnostic school’s plots here
Crops, Oilseeds

Midwife Crop Could Help Green Shoots Break Through

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Aunique trial at the Brandon AAFC research farm will see if planting seed of other crops in the furrow along with canola can help the notoriously weak seedlings break through the soil crust and improve establishment rates. Research scientist Byron Irvine said that companion crops such as canary seed, flax, camelina, and golden German millet
Livestock

BMP Program Approves 180 Projects

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The Manitoba Sustainable Agriculture Practices Program (MSAPP) has completed its first intake of applications for beneficial management practice (BMP) incentive funding for the 2010-11 fiscal year, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers has announced. “The MSAPP is a incentive-based program announced by the province in 2008 to encourage producers to adopt and implement

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