Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside Story Winnipeg free press Ilo August do Farmers regaining land growers cant shake stigma by Bill Redekop staff reporter despite a move towards More sound land manage ment Farmers continue to be the whipping boys of environmental says Portage la Prairie Farmer Gilbert these kinds of things go completely unnoticed by environmental there just looking for something they can shout says to prevent soil Vust has planted seven Kilometres of Shel Ter belts in the last seven on the farm he runs with his two he plants Green Ash because the roots go straight Down and dont take Mois Ture from neighbouring other Farmers in the Portage la Prairie area have been taking Sim Ilar Steps to protect the in Vust says stubble Burn ing has been virtually eliminated in the unless a Farmer has a particularly heavy crop and is using minimum or 30 years the whole Countryside would Light he theres stigma Vust want surprised at the results of a recent agriculture Canada study called the health of our the which took five years to found that Farmers across the country Are adopting the latest in soil conservation prac Farmers dont want to see the soil theres you dont want to be known As the one whose soil blew says study coauthor Donald Acton of Agri culture the study said More than one third of cultivated Prairie land has a inherent Hight severe risk of wind because Farmers have adopted new conservation just five per cent of land is still at a Highto severe risk of wind the study also said that Manitoba Farmers had reduced the risk of water erosion of soils by 15 per cent from but that the rid ing Mountain escarpment remains huge strides made to reverse soil loss by Bill Redekop staff reporter Ken free press Gilbert surveying a crop of says Farmers continue to be the whipping boys of very prone to water Acton said theres a Lotof room for to Jummers still must be m More cautious about putting too much fertilizer into the excess nitrogen from fertilizer that plants dont consume can end up leeching into the bacteria from excessive manure application can also go into the Farmers must also Cut Down soil scientists Prairie provinces have returned hectares of cultivated land Back to permanent cover Between 1981 and the study that trend is expected to Accel Erate with the disappearance of such farm subsidies As the Crow which encouraged crop farm ing on marginal marginal lands Are very susceptible to being stripped Bare since they have Little topsoil to begin those lands will now be returned to experts pre Farmers have made huge strides to reverse the loss of precious soils and in some cases have restored past says the most comprehensive study of farm land in a we didst know the improve ment was As extensive As it turned out to said Donald Acton of agriculture Canada in one of the study there Are just positive signs the improve ment is the findings contrast sharply with the widely quoted soil at risk study of a decade that study predicted the demise of Prairie agriculture from wind and water erosion of soils and the depletion of organic if you allow topsoil to it takes thousands of years to form that topsoil said Geza a University of Manitoba soil Sci agriculture had to and it has but were not out of the Woods in the past Farmers have adopted More conservation meth turning their backs on some traditional farm practices handed Down for Many Farmers now leave stubble in Fields Over the Winter where it traps Snow and moisture for Spring planting and return ing organic matter to the fifteen years a Farmer would have been ridiculed for leaving Messy stubble on As More and More Farmers have embraced minimum tilling or which is boosting the organic matter in tilling is a Way of controlling weeds and preparing a seed but breaking up the ground accelerates soil and Breaks up soils so that microbes decompose nutrient Rich organic matter faster than organic matter from Plant residues contains the key ingredient that makes plants said the study also found summer fallow is virtually nonexistent in summer allow was a common practice for More than a Century before researchers Dis covered it made soils highly erod destroyed soil organic and allowed nitrates to seep into ground water because there were no plants to consume the nitrates released from breaking up the High Levels of nitrates in Well water can harm and even kill a Newborn the Story we found out there is theres been a lot of movement by said Acton maintained Farmers have been adopting conservation practices even faster in the last sever Al but the study Only went the correction notice in our b72 summer Sale More concept xxv offer on Page 2 refers to Spring summer merchandise save All mens Wolverine shoes save All mens Florsheim Sli Pons on Page 7 is for select styles signatures 20piece dinnerware sets patchworks pattern on Page 14 will not be available for this Royal Albert figurines on Page 14 will be late rain checks will 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this area is considered prime Agri cultural there about farms in All Good land is in pro or has been lost to Urban about 80 per cent of herbicide use on Canadian farms takes place on the study says it found no significant effects to Prairie land from Lon term Herbi cide researchers in Alberta Mea Farmers embracing lasers a1 up to As the study found that loss of organic matter in soils since settlers first broke the land is More like 15 to 30 per and not the so Severn Offeh me fallow Whdeh subjects soil to a High rate of wind by three million hectares Between 1981 and Sother Canadian Farmers have broken about three million new land for use in1 crop soil Scien list say most of this land has just a thin layer of top soil and should it be used for the land was broken mainly advantage of government the recent elimination of Many farm subsidies is expected to see this land go Back into Pas Ture or even to 70 per cent estimated by Previ Ous the study maintained pesticide contamination of soil 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