Callum Morrison is a Crop Production Specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, serving the Central Region. Originally from Scotland, Callum moved to Canada in 2017 and brings an international perspective to prairie crop production. He works closely with producers on agronomy, crop management, and applied research to support profitable and sustainable farming systems. In 2020, Callum conducted the Prairie Cover Crop Survey, helping capture early adoption trends and on-farm experiences, and he is currently leading a follow-up survey five years on to assess how cover crop use has evolved. In addition to his role with Manitoba Agriculture, Callum farms near Altona, Manitoba with his partner and black Labrador, Bobby.”
Today we are chatting with Callum about cover crops and the Prairie Cover Crop Survey. Callum shares about his role and regular tasks with Manitoba Agriculture and shares some information about what cover crops are and some of the benefits they provide.
The Prairie Cover Crop Survey was conducted in 2020 and is being offered a second time this year. This allows Callum and his team to see what changes have occurred to cover crop implementation in the Prairies and Ontario, including challenges and benefits producers are seeing in regards to cover crop use, and why producers have started or stopped using cover crops on their land, if this change has been made.
We chat about who is eligible, and why this research is important to share. The deadline to complete the survey is March 31st, 2026.
Callum hopes to have the results of the survey compiled and ready to share by the fall of 2026.
To participate in the survey, you can head over to: https://gfo.ca/cover-crop-survey/
To find the results of the 202 survey, you can visit: https://umanitoba.ca/agricultural-food-sciences/sites/agricultural-food-sciences/files/2021-10/2020-prairie-cover-crop-survey-report.pdf
To contact Callum, please email him at callum.morrison@gov.mb.ca or call him at 1-431-344-0133. He is also on twitter @callummorrisons and on LinkedIn.
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