Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! I’m going to be out of the office from tomorrow to after New Year’s, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to wish you the best in the new year. See you next year!
I attended the Manitoba Agronomists Conference on December 15-16. Here are my notes from the first session of the first day. Precision Ag update – Trends in practices and management of data- Harold Reetz, IPNI This talk was very informative. It was interesting to listen to someone who’ has been working on this for decades. [...]
Lilian ‘s post on the Food and Farming Canada blog, Feeding the world without destroying it? asks the question: how do we feed the increasing human population sustainably? There aren’t quick answers, but a lot of what I heard at the Manitoba Agronomists’ Conference this year gave me hope. There are so many ways we [...]
Now that’s manure management! Apparently there is a Taiwanese farmer who has trained his pigs to use a litter box. It’s probably not scalable, but there are always more possibilities out there to explore!
Jay Whetter’s blog pointed me to this amusing Christmas Carol take on applying urea to frozen ground. Our clients and the government have been more concerned with the effects of applying manure to frozen ground, but it’s worth remembering that winter application is not a good idea for commercial fertilizers as well.
When you’re mapping a curved surface (like the Earth) onto a flat one (like a piece of paper), you need to use a Map Projection. There are many, many map projections out there and often you’ll find that some of your data is in one projection and the rest of it is in another. The [...]
Back in spring, I wrote a post discussing What is Manure Worth? In that post I estimated the value of manure from three different kinds of hog operations. In this post, I’m going to run through the same calculations for liquid dairy manure, solid beef manure, and liquid poultry manure. I will include the Tri-Provincial [...]
I have a compost bucket at home where I dump leftover food that no one is going to eat. Often, someone’s taken two bites out of a piece of bread then left it on the table to go stale, or an apple’s been banging around in a lunch box and is now too bruised to [...]
If you’ve always wanted to write up Manure Management Plans but never had the certification, this is the course for you! Earn the respect of your friends, clients, and colleagues when you tell them where to put their manure! (Offer only valid for Professional Agrologists (P.Ag.) and Certified Crop Advisors (CCA) ) You must complete [...]
I attended the Achieving Manure Phosphorus Balance In Manitoba Technical Workshop on November 30 and December 1, 2009. Here is a quick summary of what I heard. Opening Remarks – Barry Todd, Deputy Minister, MAFRI Manure is a valuable commodity – not waste Many of our current issues have been around for a long time [...]
