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Editorial: Changing how we think

By Laura Rance-Unger January 12, 2015

Back in the days when Prairie farmers were still in the experimental phase of adopting what is now known as conservation agriculture, I remember interviewing a farmer who had gone all the way and embraced zero tillage. He said it was an exercise in frustration bordering on failure until he realized the transition involved more

Opinion

Saline soils, plant growth problems linked to tillage practices

Research on saline soils underway, but at least one cause points to over-tilling

By Red River Basin Commission November 4, 2014

Here in the Red River basin, most fields in crop production are tilled one or more times each year, whether with cultivators, disks or deep tillers. The resulting fields look well cared for — good farming is often associated with well-tilled fields. In many places in the basin, however, farmers are noticing areas of fields

Southwest Manitoba has traditionally been considered part of the semi-arid Palliser Triangle. Today Wade (l) and Ryan Flannery are among the area farmers whose fields are sprouting cattails, not crops. Photo: Meghan Mast

Crops, News

Southwestern Manitoba — semi-arid to semi-fluid

Dedicated minimum- and zero-till farmers are now dragging out tillage  equipment that’s been in store for years

By Meghan Mast September 18, 2014

When Ryan and Wade Flannery began working on the drilling rigs to supplement grain farming, they did not imagine that several years later they would be working for oil companies year round. “We (initially) went to the drilling rigs for something to do for the winter and now it’s turned into a full-time deal,” said

News

Agricultural Hall of Fame: Robert McNabb

Five new members of the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame were inducted July 17 at a ceremony  in Portage la Prairie. We’re featuring a new inductee each week

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 27, 2014

Robert (Bob) McNabb was born and raised on a farm at Minnedosa, Manitoba. He attended the University of Manitoba where he obtained a degree in agriculture, majoring in animal science. While at university, he took flying lessons and obtained his commercial flying licence. Following graduation, Bob spent eight years in northern Saskatchewan where he was

Forages, Opinion

Editorial: The third option

Trials have shown adding a perennial forage to your crop rotation can be effective weed control

By Laura Rance-Unger August 11, 2014

At a time when soil erosion is recognized as one of the biggest threats to the world’s ability to continue feeding itself, it’s disturbing to see weed scientists advising tillage to address invading “superweeds.” There is no question that addressing the lengthening list of weeds that have developed resistance to glyphosate must be a top

Crops, News

VIDEO: The pros and cons of vertical tillage

Conclusion? More research needed to know if it's the right choice for producers

By Allan Dawson August 1, 2014

Wet springs have some farmers thinking about more tillage, including vertical tillage. Marla Rieckman, a Landscape Stewardship Specialist, with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRD) spoke with Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson about vertical tillage at the 2014 Crop Diagnostic School at the University of Manitoba’s Carman facility on July 17. Watch a UAV

Crops

Conservation not a hippie delusion

Small-scale farmers can implement conservation agriculture and improve soil health  in developing areas, often by using a mix of science and local knowledge

By Shannon VanRaes July 16, 2014

The damaging effects of tillage on soils is well documented on Europe and North American soils. So why is that approach still being exported to developing nations, proponents of conservation agriculture asked the recent World Conference on Conservation Agriculture. “We’re taking that paradigm to developing countries, so one has to ask, what is actually going

Opinion

Looking below the surface

By John Morriss July 7, 2014

Some of the world’s top soil scientists and conservation agriculture exponents convened for the sixth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture in Winnipeg last week. The message from speakers was on one hand sobering, if not frightening — massive soil erosion continues around the world, and in both developed and undeveloped countries. The good news is

From upper left: Steve Groff, Jodi DeJong-Hughes, David Montgomery, Amir Kassam.

News

Conservation agriculture gaining ground

But breaking through  tradition is difficult

By Shannon VanRaes July 4, 2014

It’s common to rebel against your parents, except it seems, when deciding how best to farm. “Never underestimate tradition,” Jodi DeJong-Hughes told those gathered in Winnipeg for the sixth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture last week. The Minnesota-based extension educator and tillage specialist said there is one thing she hears more often than not when

Tests showed tillage took out 69 per cent of the weeds, but the rate was the same for both high and low densities.

Crops

Many ‘little hammers’ best for organic weed control, says Maine expert

If tillage kill rate averages only 69 per cent,  that still leaves plenty for next year

By Daniel Winters February 10, 2014

Controlling weeds in organic systems is a bit like balancing your chequebook, except that the goal is to get the (seed) bank account as low as possible. “When managing annual weeds, the important thing is the seed bank,” said Eric Gallandt, a weed ecologist in the latest webinar of this spring’s Western Canadian Organic Webinar

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