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Protect and Profit: Farming for the Future

Protect and Profit: Farming for the Future

Written by: Ducks Unlimited Canada - Manitoba
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Make your farm more productive and more sustainable! 'Protect and Profit: Farming for the Future' provides information and tips from agrology experts, research scientists, farmers and ranchers.

Topics include maximizing rangeland and pastures, growing good forage, solving issues with marginal acres including salinity and weeds, buying and selling land, winter wheat as a cash crop, sod seeding to increase productivity and protecting land through conservation easements.

Produced by Ducks Unlimited Canada and hosted by Glen Kirby.

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Episodes
  • 2026 02 February - Solutions to Marginal Cropland

    2026 02 February - Solutions to Marginal Cropland
    Feb 17 2026

    In western Canada, about one in every five acres is considered to be marginal cropland. Half those acres likely lose money every year when seeded to wheat or canola. We’ll hear solutions from ag researchers and farmers including Clayton Robins from Rivers, Manitoba, on ways to turn money-sinks into revenue-producing acres.
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    41 mins
  • 2026 01 January - Manitoba Forage & Grassland Association

    2026 01 January - Manitoba Forage & Grassland Association
    Jan 22 2026

    Zack Koscielny is the newly-elected board chair for the Manitoba Forage & Grassland Association. The entire board executive is comprised of farmers 30 years of age or younger. Koscielny lays out his vision for the MFGA, which promotes the economic prosperity and environmental benefits of forages, grasslands, cover crops and healthy soils.
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    31 mins
  • 2025 12 December - Program Participation

    2025 12 December - Program Participation
    Dec 19 2025

    Governments and conservation groups in western Canada want to give farmers and ranchers both money and agronomic help. Problem is, most farmers don’t know about those programs or they couldn’t be bothered. Researcher Elisabeta Lika from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) looked into why on-farm conservation programming in Canada has such low uptake.
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    33 mins
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