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New Pulse Products Created In Mission ImPULSEible – for Aug. 19, 2010

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A new twist on the classic perogy, a yogurt beverage and pastry tart were the innovative new food products created in this year’s Mission ImPULSEible: Food Development Competition, which took place at the Canadian Special Crops Association (CSCA) convention in Saskatoon in July. Three student teams accepted the challenge of creating food products using pulse-based
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MZTRA Farm Tests Jumpstart Inoculant On Canola – for Aug. 12, 2010

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An Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher has launched a study to find out whether Jumpstart really works. Ramona Mohr will be examining how the phosphate-solubilizing seed inoculant containing the naturally occurring fungi Penicillium bilaii, will affect growth, P uptake, yield and quality of canola at the MZTRA farm, and a handful of other sites in
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MZTRA Farm Tests Jumpstart Inoculant On Canola – for Aug. 12, 2010

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An Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada researcher has launched a study to find out whether Jumpstart really works. Ramona Mohr will be examining how the phosphate-solubilizing seed inoculant containing the naturally occurring fungi Penicillium bilaii, will affect growth, P uptake, yield and quality of canola at the MZTRA farm, and a handful of other sites
Opinion

End Of An Era – for Jul. 29, 2010

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It was dry in the late 1980s, and farmers were told by the herbicide manufacturer that’s why their favoured herbicide – trifluralin (Treflan) – wasn’t doing its job. But two public extension workers in Manitoba, the late Ian Morrison, a weed scientist with the University of Manitoba, and Barry Todd with the soils and crops
Crops

Newdale Official Manitoba Soil – for Jul. 29, 2010

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The Manitoba legislature officially approved Newdale soil as Manitoba’s provincial soil June 17. Cliff Cullen, MLA for Turtle Mountain, introduced and supported the designation through the legislature. Newdale Soil is a valuable soil of the eastern Prairies in a group known as Black Chernozems, which are dark, grassland soils. Manitoba has more Black Chernozems than
Cereals, Crops

Heritage wheat more rust resistant than modern ones

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Walk with Gary Martens down a row of test plots the length of a football field and you’re walking backwards in time through the history of wheat in Western Canada. Start with the latest varieties: Carberry (introduced in 2009) and Waskada (2007). A little farther down you meet Glenlea (1972) and Manitou (1965). Still farther
Forages, Livestock

Alfalfa Keeps Water At Bay

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“If we have our soils conditioned to where they have increased organic matter, increased water storage and increased infiltration, that may be very important in the future.” – LINDSAY COULTHARD Asoaker of a summer has left farmers with one more reason to love alfalfa. An unforeseen benefit has surfaced at the Manitoba Zero Tillage Research
Livestock

Study On Farmers’ Health Seeks Participants

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Farmers face many challenges and difficulties related to their work, not the least of which is the way their occupation affects their long-term health. As one of the highest-risk occupations in Canada, farmers face greater work-related injuries and occupational illnesses than among the general population. Nonetheless, research into the impact of illness on both the

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