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What is sustainable agriculture?
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What is sustainable agriculture?

Prairie farmers have adopted some of the most sustainable practices among agricultural producers in the world

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No, sustainable agriculture is not organic farming, wildlife management, having a mixed livestock and grain system or anything else. It is efficient, effective, common sense crop production. In recent years, Prairie farmers have adopted some of the most sustainable practices among agricultural producers in the world. Contrary to the naysayers who rant about the destruction […] Read more
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Crops

Alberta harvest on the verge of completion

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MarketsFarm – Combining in Alberta is almost finished with the latest crop report indicating it’s at 96.3 per cent complete. The province’s Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic Development (AFRED) department noted that as of Oct. 4, the harvesting of all crops advanced nine points from the previous week due to dry weather. Of the 11 […] Read more
AAC Wildfire is a popular hard red winter wheat with short strong straw, good winter survival and excellent lodging resistance. AAC Network is coming along as a short stature winter wheat with earlier maturity, higher protein and an excellent all round disease package.
Cereals, Crops, Winter Wheat

A few pointers on fall rye and winter wheat production

Pay attention to seeding date and rate and proper fertility

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In most parts of Western Canada, the window is now open for seeding winter cereals. Depending on location, getting fall crops seeded between mid-August and mid-September is ideal, although with some cereals and varieties that window can be extended to early October. Here are a few points on growing winter cereals based on common crop […] Read more
The sweet story of ginger beef
Farm Life, FarmLife

The sweet story of ginger beef

First We Eat: Sticky, chewy, gingery, sweet and spicy — what’s not to love?

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Ginger. It’s my favourite flavour, deliciously lemony, woody, earthy, with a backbite of spicy heat. I eat crystallized ginger every day. Plus it’s good for me — it soothes gastric upsets, lullabyes an overstuffed belly, calms nausea, eases arthritic inflammation, and perhaps offers antioxidant resistance to heart disease. When cooking, I put one or more […] Read more
Feeder market strengthens toward third quarter
Cattleman’s Corner, Markets

Feeder market strengthens toward third quarter

Several factors indicate prices will be higher during fall and winter of 2022

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Alberta packers were buying fed cattle on a dressed basis in the range of $284-$286 during the second week of May. This is up about $10 from a month earlier. Alberta and Saskatchewan were contending with a backlog of market-ready, fed cattle supplies during the first five months of 2022. However, this burdensome supply situation […] Read more
Flags in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. (Inakiantonana/E+/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

EU crops to face some challenges in 2022-23

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MarketsFarm — Total grain production in the European Union is expected to decrease overall by 2.4 per cent in 2022-23, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture attachés throughout the multi-nation bloc. For the coming crop year, they forecast production to be 286.02 million tonnes of wheat, corn, barley, rye, oats, mixed grains and others. One […] Read more
I have seen pea crops combined in some years by the end of August or early September. What the smart farmer then does is heavy harrow the pea stubble and bury a few bushels per acre of peas that missed the combine. Under moist soil conditions, these peas will germinate and, in most instances, grow well into the end of October.
Columns, Crops

Let’s get real on cover crops

Let’s call them Prairie catch crops

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Cover crops have been much heralded as possible wonder fits for Canadian Prairie cropping systems. Sometimes they might fit. It really depends heavily on our most important nutrient of all — water — and the type of following crop you intend to grow. In many years of Prairie crop evaluations, it is no surprise that […] Read more
Jesse Meyer says winter cereals have been a big part of his family’s Peace River region farming operation for about 30 years. Winter cereals help spread out the workload, are an important part of risk management and are sought after in the marketplace.
Cereals, Crops, Features

Crop rotation built around winter cereals

For more than 30 years fall-seeded crops have been a key part of this Peace River region farm business plan

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Growing winter cereals is anything but an afterthought on the Meyer farm in the central Alberta Peace River region. For the past 30 years, the family farm at Woking, which is about 45 minutes north of Grande Prairie, has included winter cereals in the rotation, and particularly over the past 10 years, winter crops have […] Read more
Fall rye flowering in south-central Manitoba. (Allan Dawson photo)
Cereals, Crops, Weather

Rye in strong position going into 2022

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MarketsFarm — Last summer’s drought sharply reduced yields of many crops across the Prairies, leaving multiple supply challenges and rising prices in the aftermath. Western Canadian rye, however, was largely left unscathed, which may bode well for the crop heading into 2022. Rye production came in at 473,000 tonnes for 2021-22, according to Statistics Canada […] Read more

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