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The pros and cons of top dressing nitrogen
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

The pros and cons of top dressing nitrogen

Q & A with Nutrien Ag Solutions

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Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of top dressing nitrogen? A: Top dressing nitrogen is one fertilizer option to help achieve yield goals. The advantages include increasing yield potential, increasing time efficiency and diffusing financial risk. Timing is key. The nitrogen needs to be applied early in the growing season and before a rain […] Read more
This graphic shows salty patches on my Blackstrap farm. The main actor is the aquifer underneath the water runways. 
A neighbour’s flowing well in a runway about a mile away is the evidence for the artesian condition.
Columns, Crops

Les Henry: How does ground get salty?

What causes salty ground, and a two-step process to fix the problem in your fields

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After scribbling for this many years, it is no surprise that I’ll repeat the same song several times. Perhaps if I sing the song in a different tune it will resonate with more people. Salty ground is one such topic and this time I’ll try a new approach. A few years back this column predicted […] Read more
Residual herbicide and crop injury
Columns, Crops

Residual herbicide and crop injury

When the worst happens: what questions to ask and how to soil test for a bioassay

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Your cereal, oil seed or legume crop clearly shows that it has been significantly damaged by herbicide application or residual herbicide that was applied to cropland one or more years previously. You are considering possible legal action. What do you do next? First of all, you just don’t take a few photographs, complain about significantly […] Read more
Investment success factors
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Investment success factors

Some personal and investment-focused factors that drive investing success

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In September of last year I was interviewed by the Globe and Mail, Canada’s premier business newspaper. A question that really made me think was, “What accounts for your outperformance since the 1990s?” I would like to delve into this question, dividing the answer into personal and investment factors. Personal factors for success The personal […] Read more
Bitcoin market price (USD).
Columns, Hart Attacks

I’m not quite ready for blockchain deals

On-line banking is pretty digital — money comes in, money goes out, I never see it

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The next time I am buying an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia or even just dabbling in selling a half million tonnes of wheat to China I am definitely doing it through a blockchain. I’m not trusting the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce with this level of business. Why blockchain, you ask? Well for us […] Read more
A CRMS helps you maximize production capabilities, and make better agronomic and weather-related decisions
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Building a crop risk management strategy

A crop risk management strategy is your plan to protect your farm from unexpected loss

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What is a crop risk management strategy? It’s a fancy name for what do you do on your farm to protect yourself from production and/or revenue loss. What do you use as part of a CRMS? Crop insurance, AgriStability, hail insurance, Global Ag Risk Solutions (revenue protection insurance), Just Solutions (business interruption insurance), or maybe […] Read more
I was writing and thinking when I looked up, saw a line of grain bins and recalled that, 
yes, right, I live on the farm. I am a farmer.
Columns

Toban Dyck: Joy comes at unexpected times

Find what brings you joy in farming, and take time to focus on those things

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I was writing. I was deep in my own thoughts, wrestling, jostling, mucking around in the recesses of my mind. It’s important to dredge once in a while. Those things that reside in the depths tend to surface unannounced if not properly addressed. Anyway, I was in this space — a space I love to […] Read more
Seed-placed fertilizer blends for soybeans
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Seed-placed fertilizer blends for soybeans

Q & A with Nutrien Ag Solutions

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Q: What’s the ideal seed-placed starter fertilizer blend for soybeans? A: Legume plants have a high demand for phosphorus. Phosphorus is critical in many lifecycle processes from photosynthesis to nodulation. Currently, many acres of soybeans are still grown without enough fertilizer to offset nutrient removal by the crop. This may lead to nutrient deficiencies in […] Read more
Sunset in wheat field, late afternoon in wheat field - dusk in the cereal field
Columns, Crops

Copper: For peat’s sake!

Think peaty soil isn’t worth farming? Just add copper to get better results

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Peat is nature’s natural organic compost. As a field crop amendment, peat has a lower carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C:N), 60:1, than straw or cattle manure — that’s around 80:1. Canada has 270 million — yes, million — acres of peat lands, making up 25 per cent of the world’s peatland supply. Peat is harvested right across […] Read more

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