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Soil Test For Success

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“Maybe your banker sets soil fertility rates for your farm.” – JOHN HEARD If 80 per cent of Manitoba farmers aren’t soil testing their fields, how do they know how much nutrients to apply at the start of every growing season? That’s anybody’s guess, according to a MAFRI soil fertility specialist. “The last survey done
Crops, News

Universe In A Clump Of Dirt

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“If you build it, they will come.” – KRIS NICHOLS Uproot a plant in healthy soil, and you’ll see tiny pellets clinging to the roots. To most people, that’s just dirt. But to farmers in the know, those hard little clumps represent whole towns and cities of soil biota that work together night and day
Forages, Livestock, News

Index – for Feb. 26, 2009

Tributes/Memory ………………………………….0100 Announcements …………………………………..0200 Airplanes ………………………………………………..0400 Alarms & Security Systems ………………….0500 ANTIQUES Antiques For Sale………………………………..0701 Antique Equipment ……………………………0703 Antique Vehicle …………………………………..0705 Antiques Wanted ………………………………..0710 Arenas …………………………………………………….0800 AUCTION SALES BC Auction …………………………………………..0900 AB Auction Peace ……………………………….0905 AB Auction North ……………………………….0906 AB Auction Central …………………………….0907 AB Auction South ……………………………….0908 SK Auction …………………………………………..0915 MB Auction Parkland …………………………0920 MB
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Towards A Sustainable Future

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It is purely coincidental, but it seems somehow fitting that this year’s Manitoba North Dakota Zero-Tillage Farmers Association annual workshop is taking place in Brandon during Manitoba’s first-ever Organic Week. At first glance, it would seem these two production systems are polar opposites. One aims to reduce or eliminate tillage, usually replacing it with chemical
Forages, Livestock, News

Index – for Feb. 19, 2009

Tributes/Memory ………………………………….0100 Announcements …………………………………..0200 Airplanes ………………………………………………..0400 Alarms & Security Systems ………………….0500 ANTIQUES Antiques For Sale………………………………..0701 Antique Equipment ……………………………0703 Antique Vehicle …………………………………..0705 Antiques Wanted ………………………………..0710 Arenas …………………………………………………….0800 AUCTION SALES BC Auction …………………………………………..0900 AB Auction Peace ……………………………….0905 AB Auction North ……………………………….0906 AB Auction Central …………………………….0907 AB Auction South ……………………………….0908 SK Auction …………………………………………..0915 MB Auction Parkland …………………………0920 MB
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Crop husbandry makes a comeback

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“Can you see anything else at this show that gives you 20 per cent more yield while spending less money?” – COLIN ROSENGREN When Colin Rosengren was looking for ways to improve the sustainability of farm near Midale, Sask., he turned to the best agronomist he could find – Mother Nature. It was by clueing
Cereals, Crops

CWB backs organic sector development

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Eight new research and k n owl e d g e -s h a r i n g projects on organic grain production will get a financial boost from the Canadian Wheat Board. The board on Jan. 28 announced a new round of funding worth $200,000 in 2009 through its Organic Sector Market Development Initiative
Crops

Rolling research shows promise

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“These observations suggest that the roller is a legitimate tool for organic farmers and it will even allow them to completely eliminate tillage in some years.” – MARTIN ENTZ Organic farmers might do well to invest in a roller for help in reducing weed pressure. An experiment in its second year at the Ian N.

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