Here are my notes from the 2011 Manitoba Soil Science Society Meeting. Due to bad weather and closed highways, I missed the second day of the meeting. H. Asgedom’s talk on Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from Urea and Dairy Manure compared nitrous oxide emissions from five treatments: control unamended, ESN, Solid Dairy manure, Urea, SuperUrea. Urea [...]
We had someone ask about planting corn after canola (and vice versa). I did a little digging around online and here’s the relevant information. OMAFRA: Corn should not follow canola in the rotation. Corn roots establish a strong relationship with vesicular arbuscular mycrorhizae (VAM) fungi, which aids in phosphorus uptake. VAM colonization of corn seedlings [...]
Terry Betker has a very interesting presentation on Farm Management Advisory Services – Making Informed Choices (unfortunately you have to register with the site to see this but registration is free). He makes a lot of good points in this presentation. Outside advisers are needed when businesses outgrow management. There comes a point when you [...]
The proceedings are available Manitoba Agronomists Conference 2010 Proceedings if you want the full text. Kim McConnell of Adfarm opened up with a very broad spanning talk on Meeting Customer Needs in a Changing World. He talked about how the farm world is changing with consolidation – fewer, bigger customers means that it’s vital to [...]
I haven’t been updating this blog in a while because things have been very busy. I plan to have a post up after the Agronomists Conference in December.
This talk shows many of the ways in which you might interact with pig parts as you go through your day. There’s a lot more to pigs than just the other white meat!
I recently ran across this paper Status of Selected Trace Elements in Agricultural Soils of Southern Manitoba and it has a lot of interesting information on trace elements in Manitoba. One of our clients has been looking into possible Molybdenum issues in his soybeans, so it was informative to read that “Too many factors influence [...]
I’ve been evaluating Quantum GIS lately. It looks as though it might work as a replacement for ArcView 3.2 for our purposes. Like any new program, there is a definite learning curve to be conquered. What I like: Free! This is a huge point as I don’t have much of a software budget Standard Windows [...]
Conservation Ontario has a manure management site up, ManureNet. What they’ve done is round up links to different aspects of manure management across Canada. If you want to see what the state of manure management research is in various provinces, this is a great place to start.
With the wet weather, I’m in the office drawing fields instead of out there in them. I’m trying to improve the precision with which I draw fields from GPS tracks. I found that the free Arcview 3.2 extension Snap2Other is very helpful for fitting polygons to points. Here’s what I do to use it: Convert [...]
