Effective weed control is essential to the future of farming. Herbicide resistant weeds increasingly threaten the ability to produce crops economically. Proactive management is essential for minimizing the impact of herbicide resistant weeds and maintaining marketing options. While weeds do not respect borders, trade issues have arisen with the use of specific herbicides on certain crops or the presence of particular weed seeds. Tammy will look at strategies to identify new weed problems, manage herbicide resistant weeds, and minimize marketing concerns for long-term farm profitability.
2020
The speed at which new resistant weeds are confirmed is increasing. New challenges seem to emerge with scary regularity. What can you do when resistant weeds seem to be taking over? Looking at all the tools in the toolbox is even more important – there isn’t going to be a new ‘silver bullet’ herbicide to fix the issue. Join Ingrid as she takes a look at soil active herbicides, as another cropping option when dealing with this ever-changing landscape of resistant weed issues.
Beneficial insects, such as predators and parasitic wasps, provide control of numerous potential pests of crops. To achieve effective populations that can control pests, beneficial insects need undisturbed habitats such as non-farmed acres and unsprayed crops in agricultural landscapes. Join Dr. Contamagna as he illustrate the importance of different types of semi natural habitats and unsprayed crops in the control of soybean aphid by beneficial insects.
The soil is the foundation for any system to work while the management practices are the tools. A regenerative approach focused on soil biology will utilize integrated, dynamic principles to build synergies that are biologically-based practices to address fertility, pest and disease issues while managing water.
Join Lana as she covers recent trends in adoption of grain intercropping, which involves growing two grain crops together and separating the grain. Lana will share research results on multiple different crop combinations from SE Saskatchewan as well as farm-level adaptation of technology and equipment.
Regenerative Agriculture is a “buzz” word in today’s agricultural world and is difficult to define with just one sentence. Find out what regenerative ag is, why it is important, and how Manitoba’s Diversification Centres are actively using Regenerative Ag principles within their applied crop research program. Scott with cover no-till practices, intercropping, relay cropping, cover crops, increasing crop diversity, integrating livestock from a researcher’s prospective.
