Category: Pulse Beat Articles

The transformative impact for Manitoba’s pulse and soybean Farmers Toban Dyck, writer and farmer THIS YEAR, THE Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) released updated guidance regarding gene-edited crops. The new guidance arrived to a happy, albeit impatient, audience that anticipated … Continue reading →

SOY CANADA Brian Innes, Executive Director, Soy Canada FOR MANITOBA SOY, we’re living in a time of resilience where strong demand and on-farm performance are nurturing growth and delivering profitability. Coming off record soy yields in 2022, 2023 is showing … Continue reading →

PULSE CANADA Greg Northey, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Pulse Canada AS HARVEST 2023 concludes, pulse growers across Western Canada are putting in the hours necessary to get their crop ready for export to over 140 markets around the world. While … Continue reading →

BOARD MEMBER Building on a family legacy of service in Canada’s agriculture sector Matt McIntosh, farmer and writer SERVICE AND COMMUNITY involvement have long been a feature of Robbie Misko’s family. Joining the Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers (MPSG) board … Continue reading →

MPSG RESEARCHER, BRANDON UNIVERSITY Better yields through early season disease detection Matt McIntosh, farmer and writer DETECTING AND TREATING crops for diseases can be an uphill battle. Bryan Cassone, professor and chair of Brandon University’s Department of Biology, has been … Continue reading →

Mikayla Melnick, B.Sc. On-Farm Network Assistant Meet Mikayla Melnick! Mikayla just finished her second summer season with MPSG and is looking forward to using her experience over the last two summers, along with her degree in biomedical toxicology, to expand … Continue reading →

Daryl Domitruk, PhD. P.Ag, Executive Director, MPSG REPORTING WITH GREATER detail about the research in which MPSG invests growers’ money is one way for us to remain accountable to members. Our publisher, Burr Forest Group, has produced a picture of … Continue reading →

Melvin Rattai, Chair, MPSG IT’S BEEN A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER for us on the farm. As I’m writing this, it’s October of 2023. officials and customers in priority pulse I’m staring out of my window and the grass markets worldwide, our … Continue reading →

By Toban Dyck, farmer and writer YOU AND I, we’re good at some things. I can perform Walk the Dog with a yo-yo, for example. But I am not good at predicting whether we should focus on soybeans tolerant of … Continue reading →

John Gaudes, Communications Manager, Ag in the Classroom Manitoba WITH A NEW year underway, Agriculture in the Classroom Manitoba (AITC-M) is set to bring a number of direct experiences, classroom resources, and teacher training opportunities to school divisions across Manitoba. … Continue reading →

Bryan J. Cassone Ph.D., Brandon University SOYBEAN AND ITS ROOT/STEM DISEASES Like all crops, soybean plays host to a variety of disease-causing microorganisms (called pathogens), which can decrease harvesting yields and impact seed quality. Although Manitoba has not yet experienced … Continue reading →

Leanne Koroscil, former On-Farm Network Agronomist, MPSG SPRING THAW IS around the corner, and soon the snow in the fields will be replaced with tractors, seed and various spring inputs. The type, quantity, and timing of inputs will influence the … Continue reading →

Kristen P. MacMillan, Agronomist-in-Residence, University of Manitoba/MPSG THE ADAGE “RAIN MAKES GRAIN” certainly held true for soybeans in 2022. Following a historic drought across the prairies in 2021, soybean yield potential was realized across many regions of Manitoba in this … Continue reading →

Tom Wolfe, Spray Application Specialist, Agrimetrix The unsprayed quarter lay before Sam and Jo, the rain bearing down. If only they had found the time to apply herbicide before the Colorado Low lay waste to their plans. Now it would … Continue reading →

Denis Tremorin, Director of Sustainability, Pulse Canada THE BENEFITS OF pulses in crop rotations are well known from an agronomic perspective, in particular the nitrogen- fixation abilities of pulses that reduce the nitrogen fertilizer needs of Canadian farmers. The unique … Continue reading →

Toban Dyck, with files from Canola Watch PHOTOGRAPHY. Many of us dabble in it. Agronomists use it as a tool to reach farmers, correspond with fellow scientists and for research. And farmers enjoy photography for the same reasons, as well … Continue reading →