Insights and Stories on Crops

May. 31, 2024 at 9:58 am CDT

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. […]

By Mark Halsall

May. 17, 2024 at 11:08 am CDT

When it comes to farmers storing grain, there are the “market-responsive” people, the “store-and-ignore” types, the “cash-poor crowd” and the “tax-avoiding gang.” That’s according to a recent paper by a team of University of Illinois and University of Missouri economists, which makes it clear that not all farmers manage their […]

By Ed White

May. 10, 2024 at 10:25 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Recent research from Saskatchewan suggests farmers might want to hold back on their wheat seeding rate if they’re expecting a dry year, but it’s not clear how well the insight translates to Manitoba. The Western Applied Research Corporation study found that with a dry season on the horizon, […]

By Geralyn Wichers, Lee Hart

Apr. 26, 2024 at 9:46 am CDT

Results of a recent study by researchers in Manitoba and Alberta could help growers fight blackleg disease in canola more effectively. The study was done by a team of researchers at the University of Manitoba led by Dilantha Fernando, a professor in the school’s plant science department. They were joined […]

By Jim Timlick

Mar. 15, 2024 at 10:22 am CDT

It might be difficult to consider “messy” fields as a pathway to improved crop production and profitability. But in the early going, a Prairie-wide university-developed research project suggests taking poor-producing acres out of annual crop production might be a means of improving overall efficiency, as well as the all-important bottom […]

By Lee Hart