Manitoba Government Discusses Wetland Protection In Climate and Green Plan

Nov 01, 2017

Ducks Unlimited Canada is encouraged by what it saw in the Manitoba government's Climate and Green Plan released last week.

Director of Regional Operations Scott Stephens says enhanced protection for wetlands was good to see.

"We had been engaged in the consultation process throughout the time period that was going on too and we were actually pretty pleased with what we saw actually roll out in the Green Plan. There was some language around some enhanced protection for wetlands that we had been asking for."

Stephens notes that by conserving wetlands, farmers will benefit from better water management and flood mitigation.

“In 2014, agricultural losses due to flooding included 3.5 million acres (1.4 million hectares) of unseeded land or lost crops. The estimated cost to the Manitoba economy was in excess of $1 billion...Conserving wetlands makes the environment more resilient against these kinds of extreme weather events.”

Source : Steinbachonline

Video: Seeing the Whole Season: How Continuous Crop Modeling Is Changing Breeding

Plant breeding has long been shaped by snapshots. A walk through a plot. A single set of notes. A yield check at the end of the season. But crops do not grow in moments. They change every day.

In this conversation, Gary Nijak of AerialPLOT explains how continuous crop modeling is changing the way breeders see, measure, and select plants by capturing growth, stress, and recovery across the entire season, not just at isolated points in time.

Nijak breaks down why point-in-time observations can miss critical performance signals, how repeated, season-long data collection removes the human bottleneck in breeding, and what becomes possible when every plot is treated as a living data set. He also explores how continuous modeling allows breeding programs to move beyond vague descriptors and toward measurable, repeatable insights that connect directly to on-farm outcomes.

This conversation explores:

• What continuous crop modeling is and how it works

• Why traditional field observations fall short over a full growing season

• How scale and repeated measurement change breeding decisions

• What “digital twins” of plots mean for selection and performance

• Why data, not hardware, is driving the next shift in breeding innovation As data-driven breeding moves from research into real-world programs, this discussion offers a clear look at how seeing the whole season is reshaping value for breeders, seed companies, and farmers, and why this may be only the beginning.