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A University of Alberta team scouting for signs of clubroot. Researchers say the key to stopping the spread is scouting fields where the problem isn’t obvious, but where it’s likely to appear next.
Canola, Crops

Clubroot continues its march across prairie canola fields

So far nothing appears to have slowed the spread of clubroot, so some are suggesting it might be time to rethink our approach

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Over the past dozen years the canola industry has poured an ocean of effort into halting the spread of clubroot around the Edmonton area. And while there have been advances such as new resistant varieties, one uncomfortable truth remains — the disease continues to spread. Dan Orchard, a Canola Council of Canada agronomist who discovered […] Read more
Soybean Field on the Edge of Small-Town Iowa.
Crops, Soybeans

Is Manitoba the new Iowa?

Moisture gives the top U.S. soybean-producing state a yield advantage, but also causes more disease problems

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Is Manitoba the new Iowa? That was the official theme of one Manitoba Agronomists’ Conference as professionals considered the future of soybeans in the Keystone province. It is also the question that producers and industry officials are pondering now that soybeans in Manitoba are well over the million-acre mark. The doubling of soybean acres in […] Read more
(FIle photo by Allan Dawson)
Corn, Crops, Markets

Manitoba corn locked in sideways trading mode

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Manitoba corn appears locked into a sideways trading range for the foreseeable future, according to one industry watcher. From where the president of the Manitoba Corn Growers Association sits, it’s not surprising, given commodities’ bearish nature these days. “It’s not super-rosy; the (weak Canadian) dollar helps a bit, but we would like […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Manitoba pledges more law on nutrient loading

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Reading Time: 2 minutes More legislation to cut nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg and other water bodies is among the shorter-term commitments in the Manitoba government’s latest throne speech. In the speech, which Lt.-Gov. Janice Filmon delivered Monday, Premier Greg Selinger pledges to “work with all partners to reduce nutrient loading” in Lake Winnipeg and work to prevent further spread of […] Read more
Co-operator website earns national silvers
Crops

Co-operator website earns national silvers

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The website for Manitoba’s farm newspaper of record has earned two silver medals from the Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPAs). The Manitoba Co-operator’s website, ManitobaCooperator.ca, part of Glacier Media’s Farm Business Communications division in Winnipeg, won silver for Best Media Website, coming in second behind SalonMagazine.ca in the Blue division (scholarly, farm and B2B publishing). […] Read more
(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)
Crops, Weather

Manitoba winter fertilizing ban back on

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Snow’s arrival throughout Manitoba means no more extensions for the province’s farmers to apply winter fertilizer or manure. The province said Thursday its second extension, which was to run until the end of the day, has been rescinded, and the winter nutrient application ban is in place effective immediately, given “recent snowfall accumulations.” The winter […] Read more
(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Warm Prairie soils delay fertilizing ban, winter weights

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba’s winter ban on nutrient application has been postponed, again, while Saskatchewan has postponed its move to winter weights on its highways, due to warmer-than-average soil temperatures. Manitoba’s water stewardship department announced Friday it will further extend its nutrient application window until midnight, Nov. 19. Variances to Manitoba’s winter fertilizing ban — which typically runs […] Read more
“There are lots of opportunities for growth,” Bernard says. “You just have to see them.”
Crops, Guide Business, Livestock

The new way into farming

After 10 years on the farm, these top graduates have succeeded by transitioning their family farms from conventional to holistic

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Reading Time: 9 minutes A decade ago, a fresh-faced group of graduates jumped into a grain industry beaten down by prices and Prairie drought, and a livestock industry ravaged by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) debacle. It was hardly the best of times. By the end of 2004, a year and a half after the BSE crisis began, Canadian […] Read more
(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)
Beef Cattle, Crops, Hogs, Weather

Manitoba extends fertilizing deadline to Saturday

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Reading Time: < 1 minute A warmer-than-usual November has allowed Manitoba’s conservation and water stewardship department to delay its winter fertilizing ban until Saturday (Nov. 14). With soil temperatures not yet at the freezing point, the province announced Monday it would extend its deadline for spreading of phosphorus and/or nitrogen, including synthetic fertilizers and/or manure, to Nov. 14 from Nov. […] Read more
(FIle photo by Allan Dawson)
Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, Weather

Man. corn harvest progresses rapidly despite moisture issues

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Manitoba’s corn harvest is nearly finished and may be bringing farmers above-average yields, according to a provincial crop specialist — though some producers have had to make tough decisions when it comes to drydown. The province’s latest crop report for the week ended Oct. 13 pegged grain corn’s harvest progress at 45 […] Read more

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