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Herbicide-resistant black-grass is costing English farmers $55 to $100 an acre in herbicide costs and if Canadian farmers aren’t careful they can expect similar problems with herbicide-resistant grass weeds, Gowan’s John Edmonds warned herbicide sellers last week. photo: john edmonds, Gowan

Old chemistry conscripted in battle with herbicide-resistant weeds

It’s an expensive fight in Europe that farmers here can expect to have if they don’t adjust first

By Allan Dawson October 6, 2014

Avadex and Fortress are old soil-applied, pre-emergence herbicides with a new purpose — helping delay the onset of herbicide-resistant weeds. And fall is the right time to apply both, herbicide retailers were told at a meeting here Sept. 22 held by Gowan Canada. Manitoba already has some herbicide-resistant weeds, including glyphosate- and Group 2-resistant kochia

The Mediterranean fruit fly damages 300 types of cultivated and wild fruits, vegetables and nuts worldwide. Photo: USDA

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Population control — just let the males take over

Unlike sterilized males, GM versions are good  performers but run out of females

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 21, 2014

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxitec Ltd. in the U.K. say they have a new way to control a damaging crop pest — release males genetically engineered to father only male offspring. The scientists conducted greenhouse research with the Mediterranean fruit fly, which damages 300 types of cultivated and wild fruits, vegetables

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

A new market opens up for Manitoba forage-finished cattle

By Daniel Winters June 12, 2013

A Minnesota-based entrepreneur who has landed a contract supplying grass-finished beef to the retail giant Target says he wants to source at least some of it from Manitoba. Todd Churchill, the entrepreneur behind Thousand Hills Cattle Company, plans to start bringing in cattle from Manitoba as early as this fall. “We expect to see some

Livestock, News

Successful first year for “Build a Better World” campaign

By Cca Release January 17, 2013

Co-operative supporters climbed mountains, shaved their heads, and pulled out their chequebooks to help raise funds for the Co-operative Development Foundation’s first year of Build a Better World campaign. “We are delighted with the way that co-operatives, credit unions, and individual donors have responded to the campaign,” said board chair Michael Barrett. “We can credit

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Higher feed costs could trigger wide-reaching shift in consumers’ meat purchases

By Nigel Hunt November 21, 2012

A surge in feed grain prices has stripped many livestock farmers of profit and set off a chain of events that threatens to drive up world meat prices in 2013. The global economic downturn has made it difficult for farmers to pass on rising costs to cash-strapped consumers, and they have sought to scale back

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Nuffield Scholar Showed Leadership Qualities From An Early Age

By Melanie Collison February 24, 2011

Northeastern Alberta farmer Léona Dargis is one of three winners chosen from a field of 60 applicants for the 2011 Nuffield Canada scholarships. “This is the next step,” says Dargis, who has an agribusiness degree, worked as a John Deere farm management consultant, and plans to be a farm finance consultant. The Nuffield organization looks

Livestock, News

In Brief… – for Jun. 18, 2009

June 18, 2009

Ag Growth’s gone corporate: Winnipeg-based Ag Growth, owner of grain-handling equipment makers including Rosenort auger firm Westfield Industries, has wrapped up its conversion from an income trust to a publicly traded corporation. The common shares of what will be named “Ag Growth International Inc.” were expected to begin trading on the TSX around about June

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Co-Op Model Suits Produce Growers

By Alexis Kienlen April 2, 2009

“Criticisms and comments come back from our customers, so we can improve and be better at what we do” Farming can be a lonely and difficult occupation, and a group of vegetable producers has found that working together can reduce risk and help to better serve their customers. The Innisfail Growers, a group of five

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Ukraine wheat exports remain low amid Russian attacks on ports, weak demand

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans dip in choppy trading as Greenland dispute and global supply weigh

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Old chemistry conscripted in battle with herbicide-resistant weeds

Population control — just let the males take over

A new market opens up for Manitoba forage-finished cattle

Successful first year for “Build a Better World” campaign

Higher feed costs could trigger wide-reaching shift in consumers’ meat purchases

Nuffield Scholar Showed Leadership Qualities From An Early Age

In Brief… – for Jun. 18, 2009

Co-Op Model Suits Produce Growers

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