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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 25, 1979
Page
6
Fall weed control work is needed for zero tillage and conventional tillage. Target perennial weeds first, quack grass and Canada thistle, then winter annuals like stinkweed and flixweed. Apply 2,4-D amine for thistle and winter annuals as new growth appears to boost spring control and protect yields. Follow with spring and post emergent treatments to avoid stand loss and ragged fields.
Canada’s crop insurance program projects about 170 million dollars in payments for 1979, up from 78 million in 1978. More than 110 thousand farmers bought roughly 1.65 billion dollars in coverage with a 147 million dollar premium, split between federal and provincial governments and administration costs.
A District Seven Manitoba Cattle Producers Association meeting is set for Thursday October 25 at 8:00 p.m. in Birtle United Church Fellowship Hall with Willis Kieper in attendance to discuss association activities. The annual meeting will be in Neepawa on December 5 with guest speaker Boyd Anderson.
Cliff Cranston, longtime soils and crops branch assistant director, becomes branch director effective October 8. He will oversee planning and evaluating Manitoba crop programs, manage staff across crops, grasslands, horticulture, soils, weeds and Crown lands, and liaise with regional offices and other agencies. Cranston grew up on a Forrest district farm, served in the RCAF 1943–45, earned agriculture degree from the University of Manitoba in 1950, joined the MDA in 1951, led the crops section in 1960, and worked 1966–68 with FAO in Rome on the Indicative World Plan.
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