The Manitoba Land Initiative has a huge variety of maps and shapefiles. I’m going to go through some of the maps and shapefiles that I find useful and describe how I use them. The first group of shapefiles is Administrative Boundaries. Since Tone Ag’s work is in agriculture and not in politics, most of these [...]
I was intrigued by an article in the July-August 2009 issue of Crops and Soils describing the ontarioweeds.com website. Unsurprisingly, it is a tool for identifying weeds in Ontario. Since there is overlap in the weeds found in Ontario and Manitoba, I thought I’d take a look at it. When I checked the site, it [...]
Reading about Reducing Energy Inputs in the Agricultural Production System really encouraged me. I don’t know how trustworthy David Pimentel’s figures are, but even if they’re off by quite a bit, it shows that there are all kinds of possibilities for improvement in agriculture. At Tone Ag Consulting, we’ve been looking into various possibilities for [...]
