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SESSION I: PLENARY SESSION - Managing Risk in Cropping Systems
Manitoba Perspective on cost of production trends (powerpoint slides)
Peter Blawat, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Financing in the current financial environment
Michelle Lepp, Farm Credit Canada
Managing farm business risk in a volatile economic environment (powerpoint slides)
Dr. Doug Jose, North Central State Risk Management Education Centre, University of Nebraska
Overview of Business Risk Management tools for agriculture (powerpoint slides)
Ian Wishart, Keystone Agricultural Producers
Putting risk management into practice - Producer presentations
Ian Cushon, Jim Pallister, Jenneth Neurenberg
SESSION II: Crop Management
Zero-tillage management: A response to high fuel prices - Managing risk, residue management and fertilizer management
Byron Irvine, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Brandon)
Evaluating agrometeorological risk - Should we be worried about the weather?
Andy Nadler, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Intensifying canola and pea crop rotations
Stu Brandt, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Rye cover crops for Manitoba bean production (powerpoint slides)
Heather Flood and Martin Entz*, University of Manitoba
Making every seed count (powerpoint slides)
Bruce Brolley, Pam de Rocquigny, and Anastasia Kubinec, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Impact of rust on sunflower yield and quality
Khalid Rashid, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Morden)
SESSION III: Soil Management
Future of farming technology - speaker unable to participate
Clay Mitchell, Iowa farmer and innovator
Strip tillage for row crops and nitrogen management with Exactrix
Greg Endres, NDSU, Carrington
Nitrogen fertilizer fate and losses: Effects on N supplying power of soils
Cindy Grant, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Nitrogen and phosphorus recommendations for Manitoba for today’s production costs
Rigas Karamanos, Viterra
Fertilizer economics – Allocating funds across nutrients
Tom Jensen, IPNI Prairie
P fertilizer management panel
Don Flaten - Dept. Soil Science, U of M, Geza Racz - Dept. Soil Science, U of M, Bill Toews, Rigas Karamanos - Viterra, John Lee - Agvise Laboratories
SESSION IV: Pest Management
Insect concerns of 2008 and forecast for 2009
John Gavloski, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Panel Discussion - Solving the fusarium head blight puzzle
Scott Henry - Bayer Crop Science, Randy Clear - Canadian Grain Commission, Mike Grenier - Canadian Wheat Board
Top weed concerns of 2008 and emerging weed issues for 2009 (powerpoint slides)
Bruce Murray, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Panel Discussion - A great agronomist is worth his/her salt
Walter Ens - Cargill, Steve Livingston - Swan Lake Coop, Gary Martens - University of Manitoba
POSTERS
Can Manitoba growers fertilize for most economic yield and meet nitrate-N limits?
Author: John Heard, Crops Branch, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Carman, MB R0G 0J0
The 2008 Manitoba vegetable insect and disease situation
Authors: Brent Elliott and Philip Northover, Crops Knowledge Centre, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Box 1149, Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Canola, carrots and the Aster Leafhopper: On common ground
Authors: Brent Elliott and Philip Northover, Crops Knowledge Centre, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, 65 3rd Avenue NE, Box 1149, Carman, MB, R0G 0J0
Effect of phosphorus fertilizer rate on irrigated Russet Burbank potato
Authors: Ramona Mohr1 and Dale Tomasiewicz2
1Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Brandon Research Centre, Brandon, MB, R7A 5Y3, 2Canada-Manitoba Crop Diversification Centre, Carberry, MB, R0K 0H0
Reclaiming phosphate from hog lagoons
Authors: Joe Ackerman1, Nazim Cicek1 and Jan Oleszkiewicz2
1Biosystems Engineering, 2Civil Engineering University of Manitoba
Dynamic model of Canadian hog supply at the provincial level
Authour: Qin Chen, Dept. of Economics and Dept. of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB R3T 2N2
Relating hydrometer readings to solids and phosphorus content of liquid pig manure
Author: M.D. Timmerman, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Carman, MB R0G 0J0
Simple management strategies to simultaneously reduce NH3 and N2O emissions from field-applied liquid pig manure in Atlantic Canada
Authors: M.S. Mkhabela1*, R. Gordon2, D. Burton3, E. Smith4 and A. Madani4
1Department of Soil Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2 Canada (email: mkhabela@cc.umanitoba.ca), 2Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada, 3Department of Environmental Sciences, 4Department of Engineering, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, NS, B2N 5E3, Canada
Does conversion to perennial systems affect net greenhouse gas emissions and soil health?
Authors: Siobhan Stewart, Aaron Glenn, Mario Tenuta, Dept. of Soil Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Managing fusarium head blight in wheat
Author: Feeds Grain Horizontal Team, MAFRI
Nutrient cycling in bale grazing cattle on pasture: the year following bale grazing
Author: Réjean Picard, Farm Production Advisor, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Somerset, MB R0G 2L0
Nutrient uptake and partitioning by dry beans in Manitoba
Authors: John Heard and Bruce Brolley, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Box 1149, Carman MB R0G 0J0
Nutrient uptake and partitioning by sunflowers in Manitoba
Author: John Heard, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, Box 1149, Carman MB R0G 0J0
Postulation of leaf rust resistant genes in South America wheat
Authors: Silvia Barcellos Rosa, Dept. Of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2; Brent McCallum, Cereal Research Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2M9; Anita Brule-Babel, Dept. Of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2
Wheat breeding for organic production - Is it beneficial?
Authors: A.P. Kirk, S.L. Fox, and M.H. Entz. Cereal Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 195 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M9, Canada; (M.H.E.) Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Wheat, the king of crops
Authors: Hilmar Johnson and Kim Brown-Livingston, Farm Production Advisors, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Operation CleanFarm
Author: Kim Brown-Livingston, Farm Production Advisor, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Pathogenicity of Verticillium isolates from potato and sunflower on their original and alternative hosts
Authors: Hassna Alkher1, Abdelbasset El Hadrami1, Khalid Y. Rashid2, Lorne R. Adam1, and Fouad Daayf1, 1Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba Winnipeg MB, R3T 2N2; 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Morden Research Station, 101 Route 100, Unit 100, Morden, MB R6M 1Y5, Canada
The feral nature of alfalfa and implications for the co-existence of genetically modified (GM) and non-GM alfalfa
Authors: 1Muthukumar V. Bagavathiannan and 2Rene C. Van Acker 1Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3T 2N2 2Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1
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