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An example of a cover crop mixture in the U.S. where some producers are using cocktails of 20 or more species. However, the U of M’s Yvonne Lawley warns about brassicas such as tillage radish, which might contribute to diseases such as clubroot in canola.

Season too short for cover crops? Maybe not

They could have a fit for Western Canada, but they require  just as much planning as any other crop choice 

By Angela Lovell February 8, 2017

Open just about any U.S. farming publication and you won’t read for long before seeing the words “cover crop.” There’s been an explosion of interest in the practice of sowing a cheap mixture of seed to cover the soil after harvest, and then seeding directly into it the following year. The benefits go beyond soil

The Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative is well on its way to becoming a noted beef research and education centre of excellence.

Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock

Research and ranching

Brandon-based Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives is realizing its  potential as education and research centre

By Duncan Morrison January 25, 2017

The Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative is fast becoming one of the key centres for sector education and research in Western Canada. The rapid ascent could not be more perfectly timed, as the MBFI is in the midst of adding a learning centre to the Brookdale site, to complement the activities on the farm. “Our

Derek Brewin will be leading the University of Manitoba’s department of agribusiness and agricultural economics for the next five years.

Local news

Brewin named department of agribusiness and agricultural economics head

The five-year appointment began January 1

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 24, 2017

Derek Brewin is the new department head of the University of Manitoba’s department of agribusiness and agricultural economics. Brewin started the five-year appointment effective Jan. 1. He holds a B.Sc. in agricultural economics from the University of Alberta in 1986, and went on to do an M.Sc. at the University of Saskatchewan in 1994 and

Fusarium head blight is an ongoing challenge but following best management practices can limit the damage.

Cereals, Crops

Managing fusarium can reduce risk

Nobody can change the weather, but better crop management can hamper the disease’s spread

By Angela Lovell January 17, 2017

Fusarium head blight continues to be a major challenge for Manitoba farmers, but there’s emerging evidence that they may be able to manage around the worst of it. At the recent Manitoba Agronomists Conference in Winnipeg, Dr. Anita Brûlé-Babel of the department of plant sciences at the University of Manitoba shared a number of management

Nitrogen use is going to get a lot more sophisticated in the coming years.

Crops, News

High-tech fertilizers offer great promise

More expensive fertilizer likely cheap compared to future N20 pricing

By Lorraine Stevenson January 12, 2017

The fertilizers farmers use will one day be manufactured from algae or hydrogen fuel, not natural gas, and they’ll be ‘SMARTer’ too, said a speaker at St. Jean Farm Days last week. These will be long-lasting sensor-based nano fertilizers, not likely to be nearly as easy to handle as current products, and which may reside

This field of soybeans was still green on Sept. 23, 2013 and would’ve been damaged if there had been frost then, says Manitoba Agriculture pulse specialist Dennis Lange. While the farmers grew early-maturing varieties a cool summer and lots of rain delayed crop maturity. One of these years some of Manitoba’s soybeans will be damaged by a fall frost and likely slow the pace of soybean expansion, he said.

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Three million acres of Manitoba soybeans by 2022?

Continued growth is possible, even probable, but there will be other factors  weighing in against continued runaway growth

By Allan Dawson January 5, 2017

If the trendline continues soybean acres in Manitoba could easily top three million acres in just five more years — but don’t necessarily bet the farm on it. That’s the message Manitoba Agriculture pulse crops specialist Dennis Lange brought to the recent Manitoba Agronomists’ Conference on Dec. 14 at the University of Manitoba. He foresees

The beef industry has anted up in a big way to fund forage research through the Beef Cattle Research Centre.

Beef cattle, Forages, Livestock

Canadian forage research on the rise

The Beef Cattle Research Council has increased forage research funding from $40,000 to $6 million since its inception

By Jennifer Paige December 20, 2016

The forage industry has begun to see a promised increase in research funding from the beef industry. According to Reynold Bergen, science director with the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC), more of Canadian cattle producers’ checkoff dollars are being put towards research and the piece of the pie that had been allocated towards forages has

Bill Brown, president and CEO of Adjuvants Plus Inc., explained his company’s new product called DONguard during the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight Nov. 22 in Ottawa. It’s a biocontrol for fusarium head blight. Brown said he hopes to have DONguard registered in Canada and the U.S. in 18 months.

Cereals, Crops

New product pits fungus against fungus

If DONguard gets into the plant first, it occupies the space fusarium would take and also consumes invading fusarium, according to the company that hopes to commercialize it

By Allan Dawson December 9, 2016

A new weapon to battle fusarium head blight (FHB) fights fire with fire. The traditional tools have been agronomy, genetic resistance bred into new cultivars and fungicides — the latter sprayed on wheat and other cereal crops to protect them from the potentially devastating fungus disease that can cut yields and quality. But a fungus

The “good” fat that makes up a large part of canola and high-oleic canola oil can help reduce belly fat and decrease blood pressure.

Did you know?, News

Canola oil can help trim inches off the waist

Researchers found a significant decrease of belly fat in a  clinical trial of obese subjects who consumed canola oil

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 5, 2016

Canola oil can help reduce belly fat, a new study has found. About 20 per cent of adults in Canada have metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions — including belly fat — that increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. Researchers at the University of Manitoba, Laval University, and Penn State University tested

Graziers from across Canada visited the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative recently.

Forages, Livestock

MBFI collaboration draws accolades from visiting graziers

Tour participants said the model performs extension, something Canada has begun to fall behind on

By Duncan Morrison November 30, 2016

Around 40 delegates to the Canadian Forage and Grasslands Association annual conference, recently held in Winnipeg, arrived a day early to get a look at how Manitoba does it. They enjoyed unseasonably warm and sunny weather as they took a close-up look at the action at the Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiative (MBFI) operations around

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: ‘Relentless’ fund selling knocks down CME cattle futures

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide as traders worry China may miss US buying target

Pulse Weekly: Steady prices, high production for chickpeas

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