Penn State – To judge the overall effectiveness of cover crops and choose those offering the most ecosystem services, agricultural scientists must consider the plants’ roots as well as above-ground biomass, according to Penn State researchers who tested the characteristics of cover crop roots in three monocultures and one mixture. “Almost everything that we know […]
American Society of Agronomy – The Southern High Plains of the United States have low annual rainfall. When it does rain, though, intense storms can cause severe soil erosion. Strong winds also strip away valuable topsoil. Enter cover crops. Usually grown during seasons when primary crops aren’t cultivated, cover crops can include legumes such as […]
By Robert Arnason Glacier FarmMedia staff The largest oilseed crushing plant in Montana is scheduled to open early next year. The plant, known as Montana Specialty Mills, is expected to crush organic canola, non-genetically modified canola and flax, grown by farmers in Western Canada and the northern U.S. Plains. “It will be operational the first of […]
By Robert Arnason Glacier FarmMedia staff A few years ago, Stuart McMillan got a call about organic canola acres in Western Canada. Considering there are 18 to 22 million acres of conventional canola across the Prairies, the caller couldn’t believe online data showing that organic canola was less than 2,000 acres. “I was contacted by […]
By Allan Dawson Glacier FarmMedia staff Better regulations are needed to prevent contamination from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). That’s what the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) and the SaskOrganics’ Organic Agriculture Protection Fund committee (OAPF) concludes in a report called GM Contamination in Canada: The failure to contain living modified organisms – incidents and impacts. […]
By Ashley Robinson Glacier FarmMedia staff CNS Canada – Organic crops across Western Canada found themselves left sitting in the fields throughout September and into October as cold, wet and snowy weather hit the region leaving them in a similar situation to their conventional counterparts. “(Harvest) was delayed quite a bit. We probably saw very […]
Lower costs and higher prices make organic producers more economically resilient according to provincial figures By Lorraine Stevenson OrganicBiz staff Organic growers can still turn a tidy profit in 2018, according to Manitoba Agriculture cost-of-production figures released at Ag Days. Roy Arnott, a provincial farm management specialist, said it all comes down to what crops […]
OrganicBiz staff Montana Specialty Mills, LLC is building a new $20 million, 20-acre processing center in Great Falls that will feature grain processing equipment dedicated to making non-bioengineered/non-GMO products and organic oilseeds. The facility should be completed by the fall of 2018. The company says it chose to build the facility in the Great Falls […]
By Terry Fries Commodity News Service Canada CNS Canada – Organic crops now in the ground in Western Canada look decent, outside of the worst-hit areas where dry conditions will likely cut into yields. But the situation could have been much worse, say organic buyers who are watching crop progress closely, were it not for […]
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