Wheat & Chaff

Prairie wheat and durum growers this year can get one of their wild-oat herbicides suspended rather than stirred. Syngenta Canada has picked up federal registration for a suspension-concentrate version of its Group 2 flucarbazone herbicide Sierra. The new version, branded Sierra 2.0, will be sold in liquid (397.33 grams per litre) rather than Sierra’s water-dispersible […] Read more

Chemical and bioscience giant DuPont will spend $10 billion and release thousands of new products over the next nine years aimed at improving food production and nutrition. DuPont said it was setting three primary goals for “stimulating and guiding” internal efforts around its commitments to helping address global concerns about food security in light of […] Read more

When I started school in 1954 the school “van” route was up for tender and my dad decided that he could maybe take it on. He had a 1952 International half-ton truck and with a bit of work he made a box for it. A pretty simple box actually, the sides being a centre-split sheet […] Read more

Earlier this month, Environment Canada apologized for misreading the signs that lead its forecasters to predict a colder than normal winter. For the most part in Western Canada, it’s been anything but! It’s still chilly out there though. Remember to respect Mother Nature. You’ve been working with your jacket unzipped and no gloves, right? Admit there have been […] Read more

Comparative data on canola seed varieties is now available to farmers from the new Canola Performance Trials (CPT) 2011 that replaced the PCV trails axed in 2010. The CPT 2011 represents the next generation in variety evaluation for western Canadian canola growers. The three Prairie canola grower groups – the Alberta Canola Producers Commission, the […] Read more