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Crops, Forages

Crop Report – for May. 19, 2011

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SOUTHWEST REGION Seeding has just begun only on fields that can be travelled on. Hard red spring wheat and canola have been the crops most producers are concentrating on. Rainfall of 15-35 mm at the beginning of the week delayed seeding and field work to the weekend. Warm weather and wind over the weekend helped
Country Crossroads

Gardening With Children

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Include your children or grandchildren in the gardening plans this year and reap the following rewards: Gardening allows children to witness the miracle of life through the seed. It’s an outdoor activity that allows the whole family to work together. If a child can throw a ball, he/she can toss a potato into a hole.
Crops, Oilseeds

Valtera Is A New Soybean Herbicide From Nufarm

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Roundup Ready soybeans dominate the Mani toba market now, but Nufarm thinks there’s room for Valtera, a new pre-emergent soybean herbicide from U.S.-based Valent. Nufarm says it controls broadleaf weeds such as Eastern black nightshade, lamb’s quarters and pigweed – including Group 2 and triazine-resistant biotypes. Grant Deveson, Nufarm’s commercial manager in Canada, told a
Cereals, Crops

Nufarm To Provide Valtera

Valent Canada Inc. has named Nufarm Agriculture Inc. its sales agent for Valtera herbicide. Effective immediately, Nufarm will be responsible for all sales, shipping and billing of Valtera in Canada. Pricing and programming for Valtera are already launched for the 2011 season and will not change as a result of this agreement. Valtera is a
Crops, Oilseeds

New Killer For Kochia In Flax

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Western Canadian flax growers have a powerful new herbicide to control Group 2-resistant kochia, called Authority. But there’s lots for farmers to consider before using Nufarm’s new pre-emergence product with residual weed control. Soil pH, organic matter and texture will affect the application rate and in some cases prevent its use. And there are re-cropping
Cereals, News

Weeds Shift To Meet New Farming Practices

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The widespread adoption of zero or minimum tillage has led to subtle changes in weed populations in Manitoba, according to the provincial weed specialist, Nasir Shaihk. In the 1970s, when tillage was widespread, the top three weeds were volunteer barley, dog mustard and field horsetail. An examination of weed survey results stretching back over the
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espite all of mankind’s ingenuity, the weeds, it seems, always win in the end. Monsanto once boasted Roundup-resistant weeds were “highly unlikely” to be found, but now strains of glyphosateresistant giant ragweed can be seen growing 18 feet tall in Ontario cornfields, and some biotypes of rigid ryegrass in Australia have become immune to virtually
Crops

Between-Row Spraying Good Option, But Challenges Must Be Overcome

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Spraying herbicides between rows to hit the weeds and not the crop could give producers more bang for their weed-control buck, but more research is needed, says Agriculture Canada research scientist Tom Wolf. Inter-row spraying has caught on in Australia, where farmers use hooded sprayers to apply non-select herbicide between rows. Wolf, an expert in
Crops, Oilseeds

Monsanto Encourages U.S. Farmers To Use Additional Herbicides

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Monsanto will pay American farmers to use at least one herbicide in addition to glyphosate on Roundup Ready soybeans next year. It seems odd to promote a competitor’s product, but it’s part of Monsanto’s effort to prevent more weeds becoming resistant to glyphosate, Monsanto spokeswoman Janice Person said in an interview from St. Louis, Nov.
Crops, News

Blending Farmer Innovation With Science

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A60-bushel-per-acre crop of wheat would make any farmer proud, but how about one that was grown without pesticides or non-organic fertilizer? That’s how organic wheat yielded last year on a 1.5-acre field plot at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm at Carman. The average wheat yield in the R. M. of Dufferin,

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