The Fence Post: Spring/Summer 2025

Coles Ag on May 5, 2025

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Table of Contents

 

  • Message from the Chair: Investing in the future of agriculture
  • Message from the CEO: From stone collector to CEO
  • What’s new at MCA 
  • Five Questions with Katherine Stanley
  • Cover: 100 years of excellence
  • Research & Production
  • Market Development
  • 2025 Annual Report Summary
  • Advocacy

The Fence Post: Fall/Winter 2024

Coles Ag on November 4, 2024

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Table of Contents

 

  • Message from the Chair: Advocating for you
  • Message from the CEO: Investing in infrastructure
  • What’s new at MCA 
  • Five Questions with Ashley Ammeter
  • Cover: Keeping an eye on wellness
  • Strategy: Introducing our 2024-27 Strategic Plan
  • Advocacy
  • Research & Production
  • Market Development

The Fence Post: Spring/Summer 2024

Coles Ag on May 2, 2024

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Table of Contents

 

  • Message from the Chair: Get involved
  • Message from the CEO: A strategy beyond “continuing”
  • What’s new at MCA 
  • Five Questions with Morgan Cott
  • Cover: The not-so-secret ingredient
  • Advocacy
  • Research & Production
  • Market Development
  • 2024 Annual Report Summary
  • Economic Impact of Our Crops

The Fence Post: Fall/Winter 2023

Coles Ag on November 3, 2023

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Table of Contents

 

  • Message from the Chair: Science is science.
  • Message from the CEO: A “New Deal” for Canadian agriculture.
  • What’s new at MCA 
  • Five Questions with Lori-Ann Kaminski
  • Cover: Half a century of tasseling
  • Research & Production
  • Market Development
  • Advocacy
  • MCA Events 
  • Crop Profile Snapshots

The Fence Post: Spring/Summer 2023

mca2022dev on April 27, 2023

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Table of Contents

 

  • Message from the Chair: Farmers, it is time to become engaged.
  • Message from the CEO: Building our future on the dreams of the past.
  • What’s new at MCA 
  • Five Questions with Pam de Rocquigny
  • Cover:Crafted with care
  • 2023 Annual Report Summary
  • Research & Production
  • Market Development
  • Advocacy

The Fence Post: Fall/Winter 2022

mca2022dev on November 23, 2022

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Table of Contents

 

  • Message from the Chair: Farmers are resilient 
  • Message from the CEO: Celebrating two years working Stronger Together
  • What’s new at MCA 
  • Five Questions with Darcelle Graham 
  • MCA events 
  • You need people who care: Manitoba’s malt value chain is a labour of love from grain to glass
  • Plant innovation 
  • What is 4R Nutrient Stewardship? 
  • The basics of biologicals
  • Water world
  • A season of transition 
  • New marketing stream in the works for oilseed sunflowers 
  • Connecting consumers to our crops
  • Being a voice for Manitoba farmers

The Fence Post: Spring/Summer 2022

mca2022dev on May 18, 2022

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Table of Contents

 

  • Message from the Chair: There are so many reasons to be optimistic
  • What’s new at MCA
  • The Weed team: Meet the researchers fighting the good fight for farmers
  • Wheat levy delivers
  • Future funding for barley breeding
  • How effective are PGRs?
  • Don’t get caught short
  • Wheat market experiences extreme volatility
  • New initiative aims to champion wheat to Canadian consumers
  • Message from the CEO: We are strengthening our communications program

The Fence Post: November 2021

mca2022dev on November 18, 2021

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Table of Contents

 

  • Report from the CEO’s Office
  • Budgeting for Manitoba Crop Alliance’s 2021-22 fiscal year
  • Grain Marketing Insights
  • Updates from the Flax Council of Canada
  • Sunflower market outlook
  • New crop missions remain as webinars for 2021
  • A lay of the (political) landscape
  • Introducing the new Habitat-Friendly Wheat Ecolabel
  • 4R Nutrient Stewardship in Manitoba
  • Grasshoppers: Tips on identifying, monitoring and managing
  • Making withdrawals from the 2021 soil nutrient bank

The Fence Post: April 2021

mca2022dev on April 12, 2021

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Table of Contents

 

  • Report from the CEO’s Office
  • Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit
  • Advance Payments Program: Manitoba Crop Alliance celebrates 40 years of being administrator in 2021
  • Responsible grain update
  • Call for farmers to participate in Manitoba Crop Alliance Research on the Farm Trial Program for 2021
  • Research on the Farm: Fungicide management of Fusarium head blight
  • Field crop diseases to scout for this season
  • How can I Keep it Clean and help keep markets open for all?
  • Insects to scout for in 2021
  • Whole Farm Research
  • University of Manitoba hires new plant science professor
  • Optimizing benefits of high-priced phosphorus fertilizer

The Fence Post: November 2020

mca2022dev on November 12, 2020

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Table of Contents

 

  • Report from the CEO’s Office
  • Growing back better: Driving home the message in Ottawa
  • Keystone Agricultural Producers: Manitoba Crop Alliance newest group member
  • Reduce mycotoxins to Keep it Clean
  • Wheat midge: protecting against another outbreak
  • Code of Practice: Why it matters
  • A new normal for new crop missions
  • “Average” cereal harvest welcomed after 2019’s challenges
  • Special crops year in review
  • Manitoba Crop Alliance research challenge and opportunity
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