Insights and Stories of Daniel Winters

Jul. 12, 2013 at 1:41 am CDT

Weird weather appears to putting the lie to the age-old assertion that on the Prairies, you get either grasshoppers or mosquitoes, but never both. In scattered pockets around the province, young hoppers are boiling underneath the grass canopy even as hordes of mosquitoes hover above creating misery for man, bird […]

By Daniel Winters

Jul. 10, 2013 at 11:09 am CDT

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has created a new application Canadians can access over the Internet to report on how weather and climate conditions affect their farm operations. “It allows a producer to provide their story to us,” said Trevor Hadwen, an AAFC agroclimate specialist based in Regina. The Agroclimate […]

By Daniel Winters

Jun. 14, 2013 at 12:44 pm CDT

A new field of research looks at dark septate endophytes’ potential for helping crops become more efficient and cope with stress. Everybody and their pea-growing grandma knows about rhizobia, the nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria. But there are a host of other beneficial soil organisms that could potentially boost crop growth, increase […]

By Daniel Winters

Jun. 7, 2013 at 6:40 pm CDT

Keeping a newly emerging swine disease out of Canada will require a team effort, according to the Manitoba Pork Council’s point man on the issue. That means truckers, gathering yards and farmers need to work together to make sure porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), a virus spread by fecal matter, isn’t […]

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May. 29, 2013 at 9:26 pm CDT

One of the first casualties of this spring’s unusually cold weather appears to be the winter wheat crop in Manitoba’s southwest. The recently-released crop report, compiled by Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Iniatives staff across the province, says winter wheat however continues to struggle, with poor winter survival being reported […]

By Daniel Winters