Category: Communications

  • Early-Season Management of Soybeans

    Dr. Ramona Mohr, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada – Brandon – Spring 2021 Pulse Beat Effective early-season management practices are key to growing successful soybean crops in short-season growing regions like Manitoba. Despite ongoing improvements in soybean genetics that have led … Continue reading →

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  • Applying the 5% Rule to Soybean Production

    A 5% increase in yield, a 5% decrease in costs and a 5% increase in price received will produce more than a 15% increase in net returns. The effect is cumulative, multiplicative and compounding.” Continue reading →

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  • 2021 Research and Production Outlook

    The start of 2021 found us starting to set objectives for the next five-year federal-provincial ag policy framework scheduled to begin in 2023. Continue reading →

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  • WEBINAR: Your Fields, Your Results: Findings from the On-Farm Network

    Watch the recording of the webinar from Feb. 26, 2021 to hear results from MPSG and MCA’s On-Farm Network. Continue reading →

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  • The Science Edition – 2021

    Agronomy highlights in this issue: on-farm soybean rolling, soybean K fertility, dry bean row width and plant density, mechanical weed control tools, SCN survey, residue management before soybeans, and more! Continue reading →

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  • Hot Topics in Commodities Webinars

    Presented by The Western Producer, Manitoba Co-operator and Grainews, the Hot Topics in Commodities series will include features on wheat, canola, soybeans, pulses, corn, oats and sunflowers. In partnership with commodity organizations across the prairies, sessions will include experts in … Continue reading →

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  • Managing Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

    This past July 2020, MPSG hosted a webinar featuring Dr. Charles Geddes, Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge. This webinar covered Dr. Geddes’ Manitoba-based research on volunteer canola management in soybeans and updates from his current research … Continue reading →

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  • Collaborating Together While Being Apart

    A behind-the-scenes look at interdisciplinary soybean crop-rotation research during the 2020 pandemic Dr. Yvonne Lawley, Assistant Professor of Agronomy and Cropping Systems, University of Manitoba – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 Crop rotation studies require a long-term commitment to research. … Continue reading →

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  • Introducing the Prairie Plant Protein Project

    Laina Hughes, Communications Officer, Red River College – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 Here in Manitoba, agri-food innovation is in our roots. The keystone province is the place to dream up and work on food innovation and development, thanks to … Continue reading →

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  • Overcoming Low Protein Discounts on Manitoba Soybeans

    Da Shi and Dr. James House, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, 
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 Soybeans contain significant amounts of protein (40–50%), lipids (20–30%) and carbohydrates (26–30%), … Continue reading →

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  • Protein Discounts for Manitoba-Grown Soybeans

    Charles Grant, PhD, PAg – Senior Instructor, Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 Soybeans grown in Manitoba generally show protein levels in the 37% to … Continue reading →

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  • Aphanomyces Root Rot

    Dr. Syama Chatterton, Plant Pathologist, Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 Aphanomyces root rot is historically the most destructive disease of peas. Although reported in Manitoba for the first time in 1997 and … Continue reading →

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  • Embracing Change… at Home and in the Field

    2019 was our busiest research season with 20 field trials spread across six locations in Manitoba. Continue reading →

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  • MPSG’s Expanding Research Portfolio

    Daryl Domitruk, PhD, Executive Director, MPSG – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 In the spring of 2020, MPSG’s portfolio of research expanded by nine projects. These projects represent a $600,000 investment by your organization. I want to begin by explaining … Continue reading →

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  • Field Pea Breeding at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

    Dengjin Bing, PhD, Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 Field pea (Pisum sativum) is the most widely grown pulse crop in Canada, and Canada is the leading producer and exporter of … Continue reading →

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  • Findings from the On-Farm Network

    Do higher soybean seeding rates pay? Megan Bourns, MSc, On-Farm Network Agronomist, MPSG – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 Soybeans are an attractive addition to diversify crop rotations in Manitoba as a nitrogen-fixing, low input crop. Seems ideal for your … Continue reading →

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  • Research from Concept to Profitability: Manitoba’s Diversification Centres

    Toban Dyck, Director of Communications, MPSG – Fall/Winter (December) Pulse Beat 2020 Research has a value that is difficult to express to a broad audience. “Let’s go back 15 years,” said Scott Chalmers, Diversification Specialist at the Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization … Continue reading →

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  • Pulse Beat 91 – Fall/Winter 2020

    On the Cover: Findings from the On-Farm Network – Do higher soybean seeding rates pay? Research from Concept to Profitability – Manitoba’s Diversification Centres Field Pea Breeding at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada The Bean Report – 2020 Scouting Notes and … Continue reading →

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