Farmers have been quick to add more nitrogen to increase the protein content in their wheat. In a new marketing era, farmers will grow what customers want
In 1968 as a young upstart at the University of Saskatchewan I attended a conference at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Research Station at Swift Current. The topic was protein grading of wheat. The focus of the conference was to plan the research needed to be able to tell farmers how to best grow […] Read moreVolatile stocks tend to bring higher returns. But not everyone has the stomach to hold an unstable portfolio
There are good reasons to be cynical about investing in stocks or mutual funds, or exchange traded funds that hold stocks. Investing is about buying low and selling high. But just what is low and what, precisely, is high is usually clouded in uncertainty. To a cynic, the idea of judging companies’ values by their […] Read moreIn the third in a series of three articles on precision agriculture, Les Henry gets down to the nitty gritty details of variable rate fertilizer
Variable rate fertilizer (VRF) is probably the input that is talked about the most. Management zones The starting point to VRF is establishing management zones within a field. That can take many forms. Pretty pictures of past crop performance is one way to divide your field into zones. But, maybe the areas that grew really […] Read more
