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Cereals, Crops

Add Stripe Rust To Your Disease Watch List

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“With any rust the younger the crop is when infected the greater the potential for yield reduction. That’s why one of the main control methods is early planting.” – PAM DE ROCQUIGNY Farmers checking their wheat crops for leaf rust, tan spot and septoria can add stripe rust to the disease watch list. Jason Voogt,
News

In Brief… – for Jun. 17, 2010

Correction: Several errors regarding the Cover Crop Protection Program (CCPP) appeared in a story about excess rain in the June 3 edition of the Manitoba Co-operator. The CCPP was introduced for 2005 and 2006 to assist farmers with flooded cropland, not 2004 and 2005 as reported. It paid farmers $15 an acre, not $30. And
Beef cattle, Livestock

Hog Herd Shrinkage Is Tapering Off

Canadian hog farmers continued a four-year downsizing trend in the first quarter, but the pace is slowing even though the government is paying some to cease production. Farmers reduced the national pig herd 2.1 per cent from a year earlier to 11.635 million head as of April 1, Statistics Canada said April 28. Canada’s hog
Livestock

Michigan Battles Bovine TB In Deer, Cattle

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“The big issue is that we still continue to find bovine TB in whitetail deer. So, there’s that reservoir that continues to exist that isn’t getting worse or getting better and is a constant source of bacteria for our cattle.” – Daniel Grooms Although it was declared TB free in 1979, Michigan state animal health
Opinion, Poultry

“Chicken Feed” Sums Up U. S. Poultry Returns

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In a morning session of the May 21 U. S. Department of Justice-Department of Agriculture workshop on ag and antitrust enforcement, Alabama poultry grower Garry Staples told officials he expected “retaliation” from the firm he grows chickens for because of his participation in that event’s discussion of poultry contracts. Not so, opined Assistant Attorney General
Cereals, Crops

FAO Website To Track Wheat Fungus

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said it had launched a website to track and help prevent the global spread of wheat stem rusts including Ug99, a devastating strain that poses a global threat to production. About 90 per cent of wheat varieties around the world lack resistance to the deadly wind-borne fungus that destroys
Livestock

Short Winter Eases Manitoba Bee Losses

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“Weather is a big part of the losses in Canada.” – RHEAL LAFRENIERE, MAFRI Ashort winter may have moderated the loss of Mani toba honeybee colonies this year, following three years of abnormally high losses. Winter colony losses appear closer to traditional levels of 20 to 25 per cent, compared to annual losses of around
Opinion

Nothing To Hide

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Forty-five years may have dimmed a frame or two of memory, but I can still see my father emptying small bags of flour-like powder into a five-gallon bucket and then, slowing stirring in a trickle of water until the two ingredients combined to make a chalky, white cream. The bags contained the still-new, pre-emergent herbicide
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

U. S. Well Ahead In Seeding

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U. S. farmers are seeding corn at a record pace this spring and have made a good start in soybean planting despite rainy weather during the past week. U. S. Agriculture Department data released May 3 that showed farmers had completed 68 per cent of their corn planting as of May 2. The record for
News, Poultry

HSUS Targets Laying Hen Abuses

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“I don’t think anyone can see this footage and feel good about this production system.” – WAYNE PACELLE An undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States of major U. S. egg producers showed “rampant abuse” of hens, which the animal rights group said April 7 could prompt more consumers to embrace “cage-free”

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