Putting this in global context, it will mean that crop production will need to increase to service the traditional food markets and the renewable fuel markets," [Mark Zenuk] said. It "will create a significant demand shift unprecedented in the history of our industry. A baking-industry consortium calling itself the "Band of Bakers" marched on Capitol Hill in Washington earlier this month in a campaign protesting volatile wheat markets that some likened to veterans marching for peace and suffragettes seeking a better deal for women. And pasta makers recently issued an odd plea to Canadian farmers -- please grow more durum to help alleviate "the problem" of high durum prices. " I don't think we need to go in and tear everything down and start doing the old way of extracting everything...
The turbulent economy, increased input costs and volatile prices for rotation crops like wheat, corn and onions each played a role in a reduced potato crop production in North America in 2009, producers heard Wednesday during Day 1 of Manitoba Potato Production Days.
The BRC is one of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's national network of 19 research centres that conducts research on crop production, including fertilization requirements of crops, ecology and control of weeds, biology and management of crop diseases, genetics and breeding of barley, management of pastures and cattle, land resource management, and impacts of agriculture on the environment.
That's odd. Just two years ago, farmers were assured there would be an unlimited market for every kernel of grain they could produce. In fact, if they didn't produce more, the world would starve. It was, in the industry's eyes at least, a moral imperative for farmers to pull out all the stops. As science becomes even more sophisticated, it will help increase and maintain our yields. This will be instrumental in feeding the world's forecasted 9.1 billion people by 2050," said [Rebecca Fecitt]. "The growing population, especially in developing countries, will demand more meat, milk and eggs as incomes continue to increase. We have to maintain our biotechnology education efforts in order to ensure that grain derived from biotechnology is accepted around the world. The Chicago corn market,...
... wouldn't produce enough heat to bring crops to maturity before the autumn frosts arrived. A Se... its ability to help farmers increase production. The release, however, offers a glimpse of the und...
Efforts to integrate management of water and agriculture are already occurring in Manitoba. A recent analysis of Manitoba's Conservation Districts (CD) program by the International Institute for Sustainable Development noted that the community-based decision making approach of the CD program to water and soil conservation can play a leading role in supporting adaptation to climate change. The review found that CDs "consistently adapted to new conservation challenges, in some cases with completely unanticipated stakeholders and around unexpected issues." The most successful CDs were the ones with physical boundaries that conformed to watershed boundaries, and had clear jurisdiction rules in place, particularly over drainage issues. The decentralization of power and decision-making to loc...
...Predictions are that average potential crop yields could fall by 10 to 30 per cent due to high...Diversification of crop production may help producers reduce income loss from year to...
STUBBLE-burning is the dumbest thing farmers can do to their land but every year thousands of hectares go up in smoke. Each plume of smoke is undeniable proof that the stubble burner who set the fire doesn't understand how farming is dependent on soil fertility or how stubble and straw-burning destroys the very thing essential to crop production. It's hard to tell when farmers lost touch with the soil and became tractor drivers, mechanics and sprayer technicians, but it happened. No one with an understanding of the linkages between nutrient requirement for plant growth, soil fertility and the importance of the organic matter in soil structure burns stubble. They know that burning stubble in the fall just increased the fertilizer bill down the road. Stubble burners may also not be aware...
The Glenlea plots, located at the University of Manitoba's Glenlea research centre south of Winnipeg, are Canada's oldest organic crop production field experiment. For the past 17 seasons, we have compared the performance of standard (conventional) practices with those using certified organic methods. Here is one example of what we've learned at Glenlea. In the late 1990s, graduate student Shauna Mellish came to Manitoba to study ground beetles at Glenlea. Farmers are always welcome at Glenlea. Many farmers come to Glenlea each year to kick the tires of the alternative agricultural systems under investigation. In 2008, our high school student assistants built a small shelter -- the clubhouse -- so that visitors have a place to rest and reflect after seeing the plots. We plan to outfit ...
Canola is an expensive crop to grow. Seed costs alone are nearly double those of wheat. Due to proprietary rights and hybridization in canola, farmers don't have the option of cleaning up some of last year's crop for this year's seed like they can for most wheat varieties. Manitoba government estimates of crop production costs show canola requires about $295 per acre. At today's prices, farmers' first 33 bushels per acre of production go toward covering their production costs. In some parts of the Prairies, 33 bushels per acre is a good yield for canola. And that's if nothing goes wrong. Funny, he wasn't concerned last year as fertilizer prices soared beyond what many farmers could justify paying. Though farmers can empathize with the experience of seeing inventory drop in value, it's u...
I, myself, have plowed up 400 acres that's going into grain this year, and I'm going to cut back on my cows," said [Martin Unrau], who farms near MacGregor. "There's an environmental consequence to this that's going to be extremely costly," said [Fred Tait], who was in Winnipeg Monday for a press conference at which the NFU argued concentrated ownership of the meat-packing and food-retailing systems might be trumping a strong Canadian dollar and high grain prices as the main reasons for livestock producers' financial woes. The magnitude of the conversion of pasture land to grain land in the West could be revealed April 24, when Statistics Canada releases its first seeded acreage estimate. Bruce Burnett, director of weather and market analysis with the Canadian Wheat Board, said given t...
... cattle producers, facing continued production losses, are selling off their cows and plowing up ... in favour of wheat and other high-priced crops. Martin Unrau, president of Manitoba Cattle Produc...
It conducts research on crop production, including fertilization requirements of crops, ecology and control of weeds, biology and management of crop diseases, genetics and breeding of barley, management of pastures and cattle, land resource management and impacts of agriculture on the environment.
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