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Coverage is key when using desiccants
Wheat & Chaff

Coverage is key when using desiccants

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A crop desiccant is an herbicide intended for the rapid drydown of the crop, not for long-term weed management. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that applying a diquat-based desiccant entails a few distinctive “best practices.” Firstly, you need to use a higher water volume. Contact desiccants should be applied with at least 20 […] Read more
The zero- to four-inch level is the new topsoil hauled in from the lower land. The four- to seven-inch level is what passed for topsoil for many years. It’s really upper subsoil.
Columns, Crops

Precision ag on Blackstrap farm

Extracting a soil sample to help identify a problem

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My Dundurn farm is rolling Weyburn/Elstow loam with some very eroded knolls. For many years the combine raced over the knolls with little pouring in the hopper. The erosion over the decades was by water, but much of it from annual tillage — especially in the days of summerfallow. A few years ago I acquired a […] Read more
Good communication is key to a successful farm transition
Columns

Good communication is key to a successful farm transition

Finding common ground is a good way to move things along as long as both parties buy in

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This is the final part of our series on succession. We’ve looked back over the last 10 years identifying successes and messes that we’ve witnessed in business transitions. From here we developed an extensive list of reasons why those transitions were successful or what caused them to go off the rails. We grouped this list […] Read more
The challenges of precision ag
Columns, Crops

The challenges of precision ag

The technology for variable rate fertilizer is well established. But the agronomy is still catching up

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Precision agriculture, including variable rate fertilizer, is commonplace in farm literature and has been for many years now. But despite the hype, the actual adoption of the practice has been slow. Ask for a show of hands at any farm meetings and the result surprises many. GPS and autosteer is commonplace and has made a […] Read more
From good planning comes review
Columns, Crops

From good planning comes review

The crop is in the ground. Now it’s time to put your marketing plan under review

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These were my final comments in my last column: “As a primary producer you are fully exposed to these market swings and fluctuations so you need to be prepared to react when they happen to protect your bottom line. Have a marketing and pricing plan in place that incorporates ways of protecting yourself when futures […] Read more
Sometimes, the biggest hurdle to getting winter crops seeded is having the right mindset.
Cereals, Columns

Rye, oh rye?

Got the unseeded acre blues? Consider this fall cereal

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I’ve heard it called a poor man’s crop, a niche market, prehistoric and a weed. Fall rye brings out strong feelings in some farmers and is completely off the radar of others. With unseeded and now flooded acres across the Prairies, there might be a fit for fall rye in some crop rotations. Penny-pinching crop […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

Store ag chemicals safely

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Pesticides are often a necessary part of farm production. Agricultural chemicals present risks to farmers, agricultural workers, children, livestock and the environment if not used and stored properly. Farmers generally only purchase enough agricultural chemicals for one growing season, reducing the need for long-term storage. However, it is sometimes necessary to store agricultural chemicals. The first step for […] Read more
Mineral bioavailability is key
The Dairy Corner

Mineral bioavailability is key

Absorption, retention of minerals and a good metabolism make for successful dairy cattle

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Although trace minerals make up a very small portion of the diets of high-producing dairy cows, they have a tremendous impact upon each animal’s health, reproduction and milk production status. Minerals play vital roles in the activation of enzyme systems that drive almost every biochemical reaction in the cow’s body. Of particular importance are trace […] Read more
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Precision matters with fusarium

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Even the best wheat fungicides only offer suppression of fusarium head blight (FHB), so it’s crucial to follow label instructions closely to protect as much of your hard-won yield and quality as possible. The application window for most FHB fungicides is as short as two to three days, so timing is tight. This coincides with […] Read more
Columns, Farm Life

Young Manitoba farmers plan their lives

By planning early and including an off-farm pension,
 this young couple will have a secure retirement

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A couple we’ll call Roger and Martha, both 29, farm in southern Manitoba. They have combined income of $160,000 a year based on Martha’s town job, which pays $90,000 a year, and Roger’s work on his family farm and his own part-time farm operation for which he draws $70,000 a year. Life is good for […] Read more

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