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LivestockA Western College of Veterinary Medicine trial found calves given an intranasal vaccine at birth and a systemic booster at turnout fared better against respiratory disease than calves given the systemic shot alone.
CropsA hybrid wheatgrass bred at the University of Saskatchewan is out-competing herbicide-resistant kochia on saline ground, and a new trial is testing how to grow it for seed.
A few minutes with a pair of clippers at swathing time can tell Prairie canola growers which blackleg race and whether verticillium stripe is in their fields, and steer next year's variety choice, extension staff told a disease workshop in Saskatchewan.
Remote drug delivery by dart is spreading among western Canadian cattle producers as a way to treat a sick or injured animal without a chute, but Manitoba Agriculture and veterinarians say it suits only some cases, few drugs and trained hands.
The integrated unit pairs Kinze's 5700 toolbar with Yetter's 2984 strip freshener, works 1.5 to 4 inches deep at 9.7-16 km/h, comes in 20-, 22- and 30-inch rows from 40 to 66 feet, and is pulled by 350-hp front-wheel-assist tractors on about 0.2 gallons of fuel an acre.
Announced at the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto on 15 September alongside a PST break on port investment, the plan fast-tracks mining approvals; 20 tonnes of Manitoba potash are already en route to Europe from the Arctic port, which also moved 100,000 tonnes of grain this year.
AAFC researcher Jamie Larsen found hopper burn in Morden plots this summer; the pest, which migrates north on thunderstorms and does not overwinter in Manitoba, is easily mistaken for herbicide injury, nutrient deficiency or drought stress, and Harrow trials are hunting resistant genetics.
Chief executive Andy O'Brien says the difference was walking before running, sales matched to costs, growing rooms run like food factories, and a focus on what indoor growing does uniquely, such as microgreens ready in five days, 365 days a year.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada and the RM of North Cypress-Langford will protect 1,300 hectares of mixed-grass and sandhill prairie over the Assiniboine Delta aquifer, with local ranchers' grazing written in as a management tool and $2.35 million placed in a permanent fund for the municipality.
University of Manitoba researcher Kristen MacMillan's six site-years at Carman and Arborg found yields within 5% of the maximum from 1.9 to 5.1 cm; at 0.6 cm only 41% of seed established as it dried out, and at 5.7 cm seedlings struggled to emerge, evidence now in the scientific record behind exist
Late rains have left Prairie farmers weighing drying against waiting; Manitoba Agriculture's Darren Bond puts drying wheat from 20% to 15% moisture at about 80 cents a bushel on a $100,000 propane batch system and 57 cents on a $500,000 natural-gas continuous-flow dryer, and says to set that against
Saskatchewan grower Chad Ferguson says the variety out-yields AAC Synergy with a stronger disease package and now has enough maltster acceptance to be worth switching to; Churchill took 9.6% of western Canada's malting-barley area in 2025, up from 3.1% in 2023.
