Wheat & Chaff & Production Tips

Make the most of corporate field trials

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Chadrick Carley April 13, 2016

Hosting a company field trial on your farm — whether for a new seed variety, seed treatment or fungicide — is about far more than getting free product for a few acres. Instead, you should think of company trials as an opportunity to grow and learn more about new management techniques, as well as what […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Close call: teach your family respect for farm safety

By Amy Petherick April 12, 2016

Teaching kids to respect hazards is an important part of raising children safely on the farm and much can be learned from close calls. Growing up on the family farm near St. Malo, Man., the Racine children experienced their own close call while playing in a large truck. All five kids had free range of […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Tips for treating seed on-farm

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Shad Milligan March 22, 2016

I’ve found that a lot of growers don’t want to treat seed on-farm because there’s still this perception that it’s a messy, time-consuming process. In reality, seed treating equipment has become far more sophisticated and automated, while the seed treatments themselves often feature all-in-one pre-mix formulations that are far more convenient to use. Equipment aside, […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Farm safety week 2016

Canadian Agricultural Safety Week runs from March 13 to 19

By Leeann Minogue March 11, 2016

Beginning Monday, March 13 to 19 is Canadian Agricultural Safety Week. Here at Grainews we understand the importance of farm safety. We run articles from the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association in each issue, and do our best to make sure that none of our articles promote unsafe practices. Because we want our readers to be safe […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Flea beetle scouting strategies

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Ted Labun March 10, 2016

The one nice thing about striped and crucifer flea beetles is that they’re quite easy to tell apart. And based on previous years, you should already have a fairly good idea of whether you have one or the other species in your fields. Here are few key things to remember about striped and crucifer flea […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: The lowdown on rural Internet access

By Leeann Minogue March 9, 2016

Oh the irony. I thought I’d do a little research before I wrote about Internet access in rural Canada. So I turned to the Internet, typed in some likely search terms and… waited. Then I waited some more. I live on a farm in southeast Saskatchewan. Although oil activity has fallen off drastically in the […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Create a parent/kid farm safety contract

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association March 8, 2016

A contract is an essential business tool. Farmers sign agreements and contracts as a part of running the business. Rental contracts, supply management agreements and production contracts and some types of formal agreements that a farmer might sign in the daily running of the farming operation. Even when employing a farm hand, an agreement is […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Protecting vulnerable farm workers

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association March 7, 2016

Canada’s agricultural industry employs many different categories of workers at different times throughout the year to complete different farm tasks. These workers may be seasonal workers, older workers, new workers and young workers. What’s important to recognize is that you may have vulnerable workers that could be at risk for injury. So what can you […] Read more

Canola, Wheat & Chaff

Keys to flea beetle control in canola crops

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Ted Labun March 3, 2016

The important thing to understand about flea beetles is that they overwinter as adults — and it’s those adults that do all the feeding on your seedlings come the spring. Your canola crop is most vulnerable to flea beetle feeding from the cotyledon stage at emergence up until it reaches the three- or four-leaf stage. […] Read more

Economist Jeff Rubin spoke at CropSphere in January in Saskatoon.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: What I learned from Jeff Rubin at CropSphere

By Leeann Minogue March 1, 2016

I was looking forward to Jeff Rubin’s keynote lunch presentation at CropSphere in Saskatoon this winter. Back in 2008, Jeff Rubin was the CIBC’s chief economist. That spring, oil was trading at US$118 a barrel, and Rubin predicted that the price would rise to US$225 by 2012. Higher oil prices, he explained, would put pressure […] Read more

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Wheat & Chaff

Make the most of corporate field trials

Close call: teach your family respect for farm safety

Tips for treating seed on-farm

Farm safety week 2016

Flea beetle scouting strategies

Editor’s Column: The lowdown on rural Internet access

Create a parent/kid farm safety contract

Protecting vulnerable farm workers

Keys to flea beetle control in canola crops

Editor’s Column: What I learned from Jeff Rubin at CropSphere

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