Seeding To Ramp Up This Week

Apr 28, 2021

Manitoba Agriculture & Resource Development has released its first Crop Report of the season.

Cool soils have slowed the start to seeding throughout the middle of April. Most farms are planning on starting seeding this week.

Provincial seeding progress sits at 2% complete which is on par with the four-year average for this time of year.

Conserving existing soil moisture remains top of mind for many farmers.

Many farms are using limited disturbance openers for fertilizer and seeding, where possible.

Eastern Manitoba has adequate seedbed moisture conditions for now, and more broadcast and harrow incorporation of fertilizer is taking place.

Winter cereal survival seems good, across most regions, however regrowth is limited due to cool soil conditions and lack of available moisture.

Fall rye has overwintered better than winter wheat.

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Video: Learning to Wrench From Dad the Hard Way

Harvest is a week out and the farm picked this week to fall apart. The truck needs a battery, the barn curtain's got a problem, and the corn and beans are telling us we're out of time to get it all fixed.

So it's a full day of wrenching. Tork supervises while I get the truck back running, then we're out at the hog barn where one rusted up part has the whole curtain system hung up. Ladder work, cable work, and a little dad-and-son disagreement about the right way to do it. We close it out walking the fields, shelling beans and checking corn, because whether everything's fixed or not, harvest starts when harvest starts.

Chapters: 00:00 Everything breaks the week before harvest 01:00 Tork supervises while I fix the truck 12:30 Out to the barn to find the curtain problem 14:30 One rusty part hung up the whole curtain 20:00 Running the curtain cable from the ladder 24:00 Walking the beans and corn before harvest 26:30 Wrapping up

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