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Manage herbicide resistance before you have it
Columns, Crops

Manage herbicide resistance before you have it

Try a wide variety of 
weed control strategies


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On BASF’s 2019 Herbicide Resistance Management Webinar in March, Andrew Reid, BASF technical service specialist, said it’s always easier to manage herbicide resistant weeds before you have them in your field. One way to do this is to keep things clean. “Cleanliness is key,” Reid said. For example, if you don’t clean your combine after […] Read more
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Toban Dyck: Taking your story to the stage

Writing and public speaking is not easy work, but someone has to do it

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I was somewhere along Highway 2 between Holland and Glenboro, Man., when I took the call. I was on my way to speak at the Manitoba Beef Producers AGM about how the best way to reach any audience is through accessible, relatable and honest messaging. “Why are you speaking at the Beef Producers AGM?” asked […] Read more
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Evaluating your investment performance

Are you getting your money’s worth when it comes to mutual fund fee structures?

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There has been a lot of negativity directed towards the mutual fund and financial advisory industries around performance and fees, partly because of the emergence of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) with lower fees. Advisors, however, rely on mutual fund fees. My bias is towards taking control with direct stock ownership. This virtually eliminates fees and, […] Read more
Does the early weed controller always get the worm?
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Does the early weed controller always get the worm?

Q & A with Nutrien Ag Solutions

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Q: Is early weed control always a solid tactic? A. It’s been well established that competition from early-emerging weeds is most detrimental to crop development. Weeds emerging along with the crop compete for moisture, fertility and light before the crop has a chance to get the upper hand by developing its root system and getting […] Read more
Stuck in the middle of two
Columns, Markets

Stuck in the middle of two

Canadian farmers face the fallout of trade disputes between China and the U.S.


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Many international events have taken place in the past year, such as the renegotiation of NAFTA, Trump imposing tariffs on Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum and tariffs on Chinese imports, the arrest of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the U.S. and most recently China cancelling Richardson International’s import license for shipping canola […] Read more
The profile shown here is of a black soil where moisture conditions were more favourable and the depths of topsoil were greater. Many of the thick black soils were able to accumulate that level of organic matter because they often have sub irrigation from high water tables.
Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Soils, grassland and bush

Manage your soils based on what’s going on underneath the soil

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I penned a piece with this same title in 1989. Since then, we have learned some new things about how grassland and bush soils function. In the old days the actual 35 mm slides of the soil profiles had to be sent by snail mail to Winnipeg and the captions were in the paper copy […] Read more
Columns, Hart Attacks

Elections can only make things better

But to get there, first you have to define what “better” means

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With an Alberta provincial election coming up in mid-April and a federal election likely to happen in the fall of 2019, I know it is just a matter of days before all my problems will be solved. With either new or re-confirmed governments in place in both jurisdictions all my troubles will be lifted. Everything […] Read more
The folly of market predictions
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The folly of market predictions

For the best long-term predictions, predict that most predictions will be wrong

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In a previous column, I mentioned less than half of predictions are accurate. This phenomenon has been well documented, yet market predictions continue to abound. I began making market predictions in my January 2016 newsletter, mostly to poke fun at the whole prediction process, but also to test myself against the experts. How have I […] Read more
Upon introduction, genetically modified corn was seen as a way of reducing weed control and pesticide use, a biological way of controlling some insect pests.
Columns, Crops

The view from the GMO crowd

A world of contradictions, impossible arguments and badly translated chants

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How many times have I seen slogans that say, “No GMOs?” I even see it in Canadian horticultural seed catalogues. Do we expect the horticultural seed catalogues to sell Roundup Ready canola, soybeans or field corn? It’s just that the gossips and fuddy duddy’s of this world have seen or heard “no GMO’s.” It seems the anti-pesticide and organic food producers have […] Read more

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