Insights and Stories on Manitoba

Manitoba soybean yields disappoint

Sep. 27, 2017 at 8:49 pm CDT

CNS Canada — With Manitoba farmers starting to bring in their early-maturing soybeans between intermittent rains, they may start to see the toll from the dry summer. Many crop analysts see soybean yields below what farmers have enjoyed for the past couple of years, but they stress that fields are […]

Manitoba NDP names new ag critic

Sep. 21, 2017 at 4:08 pm CDT

By Staff

Second incidence of waterhemp found in Manitoba

Sep. 20, 2017 at 4:42 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Manitoba’s soybean harvest well underway

Sep. 14, 2017 at 6:38 pm CDT

By Allan Dawson

Feds step in to restore rail service to Churchill

Sep. 8, 2017 at 7:06 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

Stressors pile up for Manitoba soybeans

Sep. 1, 2017 at 7:51 pm CDT

Damaged patches of soybeans around Manitoba this year could be due to a combination of stresses, says Manitoba Agriculture plant pathologist Holly Derksen. “It’s a tricky year for diagnosing these problems,” Derksen said Wednesday during the Crop Talk Westman webinar. “When multiple stressors are present often the soybean plants may […]

By Allan Dawson

Manitoba’s bean harvest on track

Aug. 11, 2017 at 10:48 am CDT

CNS Canada — Manitoba’s dry edible bean crop should come in this harvest with numbers roughly the same as last year, from where a provincial specialist sits. “This year, I would say right now, depending on how things settle out in the next little while, we’ll be at least equal […]

By Terry Fries

Prairie soybeans growing well ahead of key pod-filling time

Jul. 19, 2017 at 6:58 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The way things stand now, soybeans look to continue their strong push into Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The key pod-filling time in late July and early August will ultimately decide, but soybean fields in both provinces are doing well so far. In Manitoba, which planted almost 2.23 million […]

By Terry Fries

Xtend soybeans expand options, but be dicamba-drift aware

Jul. 7, 2017 at 6:25 pm CDT

New dicamba- and glyphosate-tolerant soybeans offer more weed control options and are another tool to address herbicide-tolerant weeds, but farmers need to take steps to avoid dicamba drift and spray tank residue, Manitoba officials say. What’s been happening in Arkansas underscores the risk dicamba drift presents. The U.S. state of […]

By Allan Dawson

Southern Saskatchewan dry, but Prairies mostly OK for now

Jul. 6, 2017 at 8:48 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Dry conditions in southern Saskatchewan are cause for vigilance, but rain could still pull out a healthy harvest, according to a provincial soil and nutrient specialist. The area of concern lies within a triangle shape, with the northern tip at Saskatoon, one arm stretching southeast to Weyburn, […]

By Terry Fries