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Research lights up pulse flours’ specific properties

A project uses Saskatoon’s synchrotron to dissect the best flours for given food uses

By Janelle Rudolph February 9, 2025

Glacier FarmMedia — Pulses have a niche in the plant protein space, but the industry hopes new markets and new end-uses will help those crops expand their footprint. Chitra Sivakumar, a doctoral researcher at the University of Manitoba, is one of the people trying to make that happen. In a recent project, she and her […] Read more

Canola, Guides, Soybean Production Guide, Soybeans

How to keep last year’s canola out of your beans

If any good herbicide options are off the table, canola will compete well against soybeans

By Miranda Leybourne September 16, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Fighting off volunteer canola in your soybean crop begins with added effort to keep your non-volunteer canola from escaping the back of the combine the year before. While there’s already been a lot of work done on the matters of volunteer canola issues and canola harvest loss, recent research from the University […] Read more

Canola, Crops

VIDEO: Bringing new pod-shatter resistant canola to market

By Grainews Staff August 23, 2024

Pod-shatter tolerance in canola is a valuable trait to have if you want as much of your harvest as possible to reach the bin – it also can help with less volunteer canola plants alongside your next crop as well. At this year’s Carman Field Tour at the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm in Carman, […] Read more

According to Hector Carcamo of AAFC, low populations of lygus bugs can actually benefit canola crops.

Canola, Features

When a pest isn’t a pest

Finding flea beetles and lygus bugs in canola fields doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a problem. Sometimes lygus bugs can even benefit the crop

By Mark Halsall June 4, 2024

Insect pests aren’t always true pests. Hard as it may be for farmers to imagine, sometimes the insects do more good than harm. That was a key message from an April online seminar on insect control in canola organized by the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. The three panelists — Alejandro […] Read more

Features

Enhanced efficiency fertilizers must pay off

The potential yield gain isn’t enough to entice farmers, soil scientist says

By Ed White February 23, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Enhanced efficiency fertilizers work. They might even be able to pay for themselves. But right now the bottom line impact is too unclear for a lot of farmers to embrace them, University of Manitoba soil scientist Mario Tenuta acknowledged during a discussion at St. Jean Farm Days last month in St. Jean […] Read more

U of M professor Paul Bullock checks data from a portable weather station during development of the FHB risk assessment tool.

Cereals, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Online fusarium management tool due out this spring

Preliminary tests of the online tool showed a good level of accuracy

By Jim Timlick February 19, 2024

A follow-up to a story we first brought you last July about a new online tool being developed by soil scientists at the University of Manitoba to make fusarium head blight (FHB) risk management in cereal crops easier for Prairie farmers. Paul Bullock, a senior scholar with the U of M’s department of soil science, […] Read more

Here we see a cover crop grazing blend at the Ag in Motion farm show near Langham, Sask., in 2023.

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Forages

Grazing cover crops shows soil health dividends

Livestock producers see the benefits but say they could really use more information

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan January 12, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — If you’ve wondered whether livestock producers are taking a different approach to cover crops than those growing them for the grain — and are seeing distinct benefits in doing so — the surveys so far say yes. Callum Morrison, a crop production extension specialist for Manitoba Agriculture at Carman and a master’s […] Read more

Managing automated systems from inside the cab or supervising fully autonomous machines remotely requires rethinking how to best input instructions and receive feedback.

Machinery

A new kind of communication with your tractor

U of M focuses on improving interactions with automated systems

By Scott Garvey May 3, 2023

One thing machinery brands have emphasized for decades when introducing new machines is the incremental improvements they’ve made in ergonomics in the cab. Controls continually get easier to manipulate and feel more natural to use, and cabs get more comfortable. Having attended more than a few machine introductions, I’ve heard brand marketing staff describe in […] Read more

Dr. Digvir Jayas. (University of Manitoba photo)

Crops

Acclaimed Manitoba stored grain researcher now Alberta bound

Digvir Jayas named president at University of Lethbridge

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 2, 2023

A leading Canadian researcher and expert in safe storage of grain is headed westbound and up to the head office at another Prairie university. Dr. Digvir Jayas, currently on sabbatical as professor and vice-president (research and international) at the University of Manitoba, will become president and vice-chancellor at the University of Lethbridge effective July 1 […] Read more

File photo of potatoes in storage. (Kativ/E+/Getty Images)

Crops, Potatoes

Potato storage research to get boost

A federal-provincial investment goes to improve an existing storage facility at the University of Manitoba

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 27, 2023

Manitoba’s potato research landscape is getting a funding injection to improve infrastructure. The governments of Canada and Manitoba are investing $98,970 through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership to upgrade the University of Manitoba’s horticulture storage facility so it can conduct potato research. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and provincial Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson made the announcement […] Read more

Daily Network News

Richardson back in the fold at canola council

ICE Weekly: Canola to stay elevated as war persists

Online hub gives farmers tools to prepare for crises like extreme weather, disease outbreaks

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