Daily Network News

More News →

Tag Archives University of Manitoba

Ron Krahn shows students a damaged recovery strap that is no longer safe to use.
Machinery

Safely extricate a stuck machine

Replace those chains with tow straps and think safety

By
If you have a pile of old chains in your workshop ready to use when your tractor or combine gets stuck, just leave them there was the message instructors gave students during a lesson on how to extricate stuck heavy trucks and machines. The January classroom session was part of the University of Manitoba’s first […] Read more
Simplifying phosphorus
Columns, Crops

Simplifying phosphorus

Experts’ opinion on P fertilizer have changed over time, and are still changing now

By
In the early days of fertilizer use on the Canadian Prairies phosphorus was the only game in town- mostly 11-48-0. “If in doubt use 11-48,” was the chant. Much work was done to find the amounts to use for various crops and soils and the best way to put it on. We thought we knew […] Read more
Wheat research in the pipeline
Cereals, Crops, Features

Wheat research in the pipeline

Not happy with wheat in your rotation? One of these projects will brighten your future

By
Following is a roundup of some of the major wheat research and breeding projects across Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan that address priority areas such as increasing yield, improving disease and pest resistance, agronomics and tolerance to drought and excess moisture, as well as end-use qualities. Better wheat under stress Two projects are looking at improving […] Read more
When a seed sprouts in the field, starches, which ultimately become bread or pasta, convert to sugars, which make end products, like bread or pasta too sticky.
Cereals, Crops, Features

Genes can control pre-harvest sprouting

Manitoba researchers are using new technology to solve an old problem


By
Pre-harvest sprouting of cereal seeds in the field is directly linked to the seed’s dormancy level. Plants produce different compounds that regulate physiological processes, including seed germination and dormancy. When seeds are dormant, even if they have adequate moisture, heat and oxygen, they simply won’t germinate. One of the factors which prevents seeds from germinating […] Read more
During a training exercise, students hid around a tractor while another student in the cab tried to spot them, most remained unseen. That highlighted the need to do a walk around before starting machinery.
Machinery

U of M hopes to expand machine safety training

By
As a group of students were clustered around and under a tractor, another student in the cab looked out to try and see them. It was all part of the University of Manitoba’s first tractor safety training day. The point of the exercise was to show a class of ag students how many bind spots […] Read more
Students in the U. of M. ag certificate program took part in a pilot project that added a machinery safety-training day to their course.
Machinery

U of M holds first tractor safety day

Pilot project aims to teach ag students about on-farm machinery safety

By
Last weekend I found myself sitting in the local Tim Hortons having coffee with a retired farmer. He was missing some fingers on his left hand from an amputation. And it made me think of how many retired — and current — farmers I know just in this area that have similar injuries from a […] Read more
ground flax seeds
Columns

Control blood pressure with flax

Reporter's Notebook: New research shows that eating ground flaxseed can lower your blood pressure

By
One of the interesting side effects of covering agriculture is that influences my eating habits. I get to hear about the research into food uses and health claims of the crops grown in Western Canada. I eat pulses for the fibre and protein. I use canola oil several times a week. I’m not shy about […] Read more
Crops, Features

Apomixis 101

By
Apomixis could be called the Holy Grail of plant breeding. According to Rob Duncan, a canola breeder at the University of Manitoba, scientists have been working on it since the 1840s. Even Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, caught the apomixis bug, analyzing the apomictic properties of hawkweed species in the 1860s. What is […] Read more
Soybean cyst nematodes on the Prairies?
Crops, Soybeans

Soybean cyst nematodes on the Prairies?

This yield-stealing roundworm moves with soil. And it's probably on its way to your soybean field

By
The soybean cyst nematode is the number one yield robber in soybean crops in Ontario and the U.S. This parasitic roundworm has been in North America since the mid-1950s, with the first detection in North Carolina, says Albert Tenuta, provincial field crop pathologist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Since then […] Read more
This is a feed barley crop at Spiritwood, Sask., in 1996, on Gray Wooded loam soil. This crop yielded 80 bu./ac. with no fertilizer in the year of seeding.
Columns, Crops

A convert to long-term experiments

Soil fertility is a long-term prospect that calls for long-term approaches to research

By
In my younger days I was not a fan of long-term experiments. Almost all were on Federal Research stations with good soils and plot practices that did not always relate to farm fields. But recent information coming from long-term experiments has changed my mind. Worldwide, the longest experiment is the famous Broadbalk field at Rothamsted […] Read more

AgCanadaTV

AgCanadaTV Special Feature: Crop pest insects to watch out for in 2026

Sponsored by:
More Videos →

Latest Market News

More Market News →