MAFRI and an alphabet soup of other organizations have arranged a Soil and Manure Management Field Workshop on July 23, 2010. They’re planning on covering a number of manure management issues in a field setting. I attended a similar workshop a few years back and learned a lot from it, so I’m looking forward to [...]
Manitoba Agriculture used to provide Sclerotinia Risk maps for Manitoba. Unfortunately due to budget cuts they are no longer able to provide that service. The current best source for Sclerotinia maps in Manitoba is the Canadian Wheat Board’s Weatherfarm service. To find the Sclerotinia maps log in (register first if you haven’t already) – it’s [...]
With more and more of the Prairies going underwater, some farmers are wondering what the effects of all this water will be on the fertilizer they applied on their fields. I did some looking around and found a couple of good articles on estimating nitrogen losses on flooded fields. The MAFRI article, Impact Of Flooding [...]
This last week it’s continued to rain on and off, so mostly I’ve been in the office updating our spring records. On the bright side, we’ve already seen some canola flowering so there’s still hope!
Turns out I spoke too soon in my last post. We scouted some fields in the Interlake region yesterday and they looked like swimming pools. The water on the fields is a concern, but the bigger concern is that there’s nowhere for it to god. Most of the culverts that I saw were 3/4 full [...]
Things are fairly quiet right now as we do the crop scouting, identify potential problem pests, and make spray recommendations. So far we’ve been lucky in that our clients haven’t been flooded out by the massive amounts of precipitation we’ve received here. The crops are growing beautifully and we’re keeping an eye on them.
Cartogrammer had a fun post on Charts in the landscape. If you look at field shapes, they often resemble different kinds of charts. Near Petrel there are pie charts: View Larger Map And you can find bar charts where early French Canadian settlers farmed: View Larger Map It’s fun to look at the world from [...]
