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Resistant weed headaches growing, survey shows

By Daniel Winters March 16, 2013

New survey says 43 per cent of farmers now believe they have herbicide-resistant weeds, but the number who report using more than one mode of action is falling

More Canadian farmers are reporting herbicide-resistant weeds, according to a new poll. Nearly two-thirds of the 500 farmers surveyed in a poll conducted for BASF Canada said weeds in their fields are getting tougher to control, and 43 per cent said they suspect they have weeds resistant to herbicides. In a similar poll conducted a

Crops, Oilseeds

Got bald patches on eroded knolls? Ammonium sulphate may be the cause

By Daniel Winters March 7, 2013

If you’ve always assumed canola emerges poorly on eroded knolls because the soil there is poor, think again. Toxicity from ammonium sulphate fertilizer could be the real reason behind those bald patches, especially on Newdale-type soils with high amounts of calcium carbonate in the subsoil zones, according to University of Manitoba student Laryssa Grenkow. “The

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Opinion

Colourful, but effective

By John Morriss February 28, 2013

Both Alex Binkley and Allan Dawson relate some memories of the accomplishments of the late Eugene Whelan elsewhere in this issue, but we can’t let him leave us without noting one ambition he failed to achieve. Whelan desperately wanted to be minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board (never making a secret of it) but

News

Barry Todd retires March 1

By Allan Dawson February 28, 2013

Barry Todd knows what he’s going to miss most as he prepares for retirement after serving Manitoba’s agricultural sector more than three decades — the people Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural initiatives’ (MAFRI) deputy minister retires March 1 after almost 32 years with the department, including the last 10 as acting and then the permanent

Livestock, News

New leaders at NCLE

February 28, 2013

Martin Scanlon of the University of Manitoba’s department of food science, has been appointed chair of the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment (NCLE) for a three-year term. Scanlon replaces Don Flaten, who has held the position over the past four years. Christine Rawluk, a beef-forage systems researcher, has been appointed research development co-ordinator

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Hairy vetch opens up opportunities

By Shannon VanRaes February 23, 2013

Hairy vetch has long suffered snickers and quizzical looks at the very mention of its name, but new research shows the legume has potential in Manitoba. Scott Chalmers, a diversification technician with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, told producers at the annual Special Crops Symposium in Winnipeg that plant is a possible cover crop

Country Crossroads

Rural kids play Survivor — only this time it’s in Winnipeg

By Lorraine Stevenson February 23, 2013

It’s a bitterly cold February day and a dozen rural high school kids are wandering the aisles of a Safeway in Winnipeg. Their task: Stick to a very tight budget, buy healthy food, and get a feel for a student’s lifestyle. The trip to the grocery store is part of their orientation as participants in

Crops, News

ADM to shut Medicine Hat flour mill

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 22, 2013

Archer Daniels Midland is set to permanently close its century-old Medicine Hat, Alta. flour mill at the end of May. The Chicago-based food firm quietly announced Jan. 31 it would close the former Ogilvie Flour Mills plant and supply the plant’s customers from its “larger, more centrally located” flour mill at Calgary. The decision followed

Crops, Forages, Pulses

Put these crop pests on your radar

By Allan Dawson February 13, 2013

Which pest is going to strike where next and how hard ranks right up there with weather forecasting for jobs that are difficult to get right. But extension agronomists say these are some of the yield robbers on their watch list. Soybean cyst nematode This pest hasn’t been found in Manitoba yet, but it could

Cereals, Opinion

Letters, Feb. 7, 2013

February 12, 2013

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