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Winnipeg Galina Beilis is the owner of Dairy Fairy, a small-batch cheese company, making a traditional cheese at the University of Manitoba’s Dairy Plant.

Winnipegger introducing a new ‘old’ cheese to the market

Dairy Fairy cheese maker Galina Beilis has eaten this fresh cheese since she was a child. Now she’s making a business producing and selling it

By Lorraine Stevenson March 15, 2016

Galina Beilis’s cheese might be new to Manitoba, but as she’ll tell you, there’s really nothing new about it. The recipe is as simple as it is old. Farmers and villagers have been making it for centuries and it dates back to the discovery of milk going sour when you left it at a warm

Brian Amiro and Karin Wittenberg look over their presentation at Crop Connect in Winnipeg.

News

Prairies to play pivotal role in future food production

Climate change will provide both challenges and opportunities for Prairie producers by the year 2050

By Shannon VanRaes March 4, 2016

What will Prairie agriculture look like in the year 2050? That’s something a diverse group of experts and researchers set out to determine in a Green Paper presented at the Alberta Institute of Agrologists, titled Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050. “Our future includes change from a number of perspectives, we understand some better than others,

Cereals, News

Prairie wheat growers wanted to assist in gluten strength study

Farmers can get some valuable data about their wheat, and potentially help boost returns for the whole class

By Allan Dawson February 26, 2016

Scientists investigating the effect weather, agronomics and genotype have on milling wheat quality are appealing to farmers across the Prairies to participate in their study. The goal is to improve the quantity, quality and consistency of Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat and in so doing increase returns to farmers. In return participating farmers will

Skaters make their way to river trails near the historic site of The Forks, the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in Winnipeg.

Local news

Cities have nutrient recycling role too, soil scientist says

Winnipeg continues to be the province's largest generator of nutrients such as phosphorous

By Shannon VanRaes February 18, 2016

It’s time to begin recycling nutrients from the province’s largest confined feeding operation — Winnipeg, a University of Manitoba soil scientist says. “If you look at Manitoba’s largest confined feeding operation, it is Winnipeg,” said Don Flaten, speaking at Crop Connect in Winnipeg last week. “And to just be putting the waste water nutrients into

Average harvest loss in canola across the Prairies translates into 4,000 to 5,000 potential volunteers per square metre.

Crops, Oilseeds

Keeping volunteer canola out of soybeans

Inter-row tillage looks like a promising management tool

By Angela Lovell February 17, 2016

The average of six per cent canola seed loss during harvest sounds bad enough, but even worse when converted into the number of seeds left to germinate as volunteers the following year. “We’re losing an average of 4,000 to 5,000 seeds per square metre so it doesn’t take a lot of persistence for volunteer canola

"I think there has to be a whole new generation of tillage equipment developed in the next five years." – David Lobb.

Crops

High-disturbance seeding can be as erosive as a plow

Conservation tillage isn’t conserving as much soil as you thought. That’s why  University of Manitoba soil scientist David Lobb says new tillage equipment is needed

By Allan Dawson February 12, 2016

The era of black summerfallow is over, and direct seeding and zero tillage have pretty much solved problems of soil erosion on the Prairies. Or so goes conventional wisdom. Not so, says David Lobb, a professor in the University of Manitoba’s department of soil science and senior research chair for the Watershed Systems Research Program

Crops, Local news

VIDEO: Tillage erosion and how you can avoid it

Soil science professor says it can be the most damaging type of soil erosion

By Allan Dawson February 12, 2016

You’ve heard of wind and water erosion, but how about tillage erosion? It’s often the worse of the three, says University of Manitoba soil science professor David Lobb, who spoke to Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson Feb. 4 at the Manitoba Soil Science Society’s 59th annual meeting in Winnipeg.

Being involved in your community is a tremendous learning opportunity, says Elm Creek farmer  Colin Penner. He became involved in KAP about a year ago.

Country Crossroads

Leaders needed — but harder to find

Delegates to the Keystone Agricultural Producers Young Farmer Conference  were urged to consider volunteering as a rewarding investment

By Lorraine Stevenson February 10, 2016

If you’re joining that committee or sitting on that board because ‘someone’s got to do it,’ Elm Creek farmer Colin Penner has some advice. Think about how you’ll benefit from it too. “Be a little selfish. You don’t have to get involved for strictly noble reasons,” he told some 60 delegates attending Keystone Agriculture Producers

A study in Manitoba found one adult female of the thirteen-spotted lady beetle ate about 110 English grain aphids in 24 hours.

Crops, Oilseeds

Engaging natural enemies to fight soybean aphids

The economic threshold for spraying is  much higher if there is a good population  of natural enemies

By Angela Lovell February 2, 2016

Don’t only count the bad bugs before deciding to spray — count the good ones as well, says Jordan Bannerman of the department of entomology at the University of Manitoba. Bannerman is developing a new decision-making tool that will provide growers a way to predict whether there are enough natural insect enemies present in the

Comment, Weather

Let science speak without bias

Objective, rigorous science  stands on its own merits

By Brian Ransom February 2, 2016

I think the Manitoba Co-operator is an advocate for the theory that observed warming over the past century is dangerous climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions partially resulting from agricultural use of fossil fuels and cattle ranching. I’m skeptical about the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) but I nevertheless faithfully read what the

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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