Spring wheat Archives - Page 18 of 210

A plot-scale unit seeds wheat into one of the research plots. Wheat varieties were chosen based on regionally popular varieties for each test site.

Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Features, Spring Wheat

It pays to adjust seeding rate based on moisture

Keep wheat plant count in line with moisture expectations — and limit the amount of tillering

By Lee Hart April 9, 2024

Research done across Saskatchewan recommends that the best way to optimize wheat yields is to adjust your wheat seeding rate to reflect moisture conditions, says a report from the Western Applied Research Corporation (WARC). The research concluded if you’re heading into what looks like a drier growing season, a mid- to lower wheat seeding rate […] Read more

A combine harvests wheat in September 1952 at the Matador Co-operative farm in what's now the RM of Lacadena, about 65 km north of Swift Current, Sask.

Columns, Weather

Precipitation cycles: When will the dry cycle end?

There's no way to predict from here what the 2024 growing season will provide

By Les Henry March 2, 2024

Many farmers in the Brown and Dark Brown soil zones of the Palliser Triangle have spent a few years now looking at the sky and hoping for rain. In some areas the snowmelt went straight to soil moisture and was a big factor in providing something for the trucker to do. But multiple years with […] Read more

green spring wheat in a demonstration plot

Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Features, Spring Wheat

Field-scale trials with wheat present seeding and yield mystery

Trials see little yield difference by boosting seed count -- but don't plant less

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, Jeff Melchior February 21, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Call it an agronomic mystery. It’s been proven time and time again that, barring unforeseen challenges, the more seeds planted, the more crop harvested. But those aren’t the results the Alberta Grains Plot2Farm program has seen in its field-scale trials on spring wheat. Four years of field trials have consistently shown that […] Read more

Twelve binders at work near Wilcox, Sask., in what's now the RM of Bratt's Lake, year unknown.

Columns, Crops, Spring Wheat

Where the wheat was

Let's track 85 years of hard red spring wheat yields in Saskatchewan, by RM

By Les Henry February 19, 2024

The folks at Saskatchewan’s ministry of agriculture have produced a digital dashboard that has a complete record of wheat yields for each rural municipality all the way back to 1938. It is an Excel file, 20.5 MB in size, which means a lot of numbers. It’s very easy to select any RM in the province […] Read more

U of M professor Paul Bullock checks data from a portable weather station during development of the FHB risk assessment tool.

Cereals, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Online fusarium management tool due out this spring

Preliminary tests of the online tool showed a good level of accuracy

By Jim Timlick February 19, 2024

A follow-up to a story we first brought you last July about a new online tool being developed by soil scientists at the University of Manitoba to make fusarium head blight (FHB) risk management in cereal crops easier for Prairie farmers. Paul Bullock, a senior scholar with the U of M’s department of soil science, […] Read more

a 60-foot Pillar disc drill to seed hard red spring wheat

Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Features

Earlier-than-early seeding

These farmers use soil temperature, rather than the calendar, to time seeding wheat

By Lee Hart February 8, 2024

Not long ago, brothers Matthew and Farley Gould, who farm in east-central Alberta, had no idea of the resiliency of wheat seedlings against adverse growing conditions. But over the past three growing seasons they’ve seeded part of their hard red spring wheat crop early. How early? Soil temperatures have barely thawed, and germinated seedlings have […] Read more

A CDC Vantta plot at the College of Agriculture and Bioresources Crop Development Centre (CDC) at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 2022. The new Canada Western Amber Durum variety from SeCan was developed by CDC wheat breeder Curtis Pozniak, pictured here.

Cereals Guide 2023

New cereal varieties for 2024

Seven new options are on the market for Prairie producers

By Mark Halsall January 18, 2024

Farmers in Western Canada have seven new cereal varieties to choose from for next year. Here is a look what FP Genetics, SeCan, SeedNet and Stamp Seeds have to offer. Please note the following list includes only brand new offerings for 2024. FP Genetics Durum: AAC Schrader is the first durum in the Canada Western […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Higher canola, wheat production expected in StatCan report

Traders raise concerns about report accuracy

By GFM Network News December 1, 2023

MarketsFarm — There was a consensus among several traders and analysts that Statistics Canada will very likely raise its estimates on canola and wheat production for 2023-24. Yields on the Prairies were better than expected following a difficult first half of the growing period, as the weather improved during the second half. StatCan is set […] Read more

CBOT March 2024 soft red winter wheat with 20-day moving average, MGEX March 2024 hard red spring wheat (yellow high/low/close) and K.C. March 2024 hard red winter wheat (orange H/L/C). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat, corn rally as export sales top forecasts

Soybeans lower in narrow trading

By GFM Network News November 30, 2023

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat and corn futures climbed more than one per cent on Thursday as traders covered more short positions following a slump to multi-year lows and as weekly export sales topped forecasts and included sizeable purchases by major importer China. Soybeans were lower in range-bound trading after the U.S. Department of […] Read more

The Agrifac AiCPlus uses an algorithm that can be developed for each weed in the field seen with the naked eye.

Equipment, Machinery, News

Spot sprayer economics

Does this technology make sense for your farm? ROI isn’t the only consideration

By Jim Timlick November 30, 2023

Interest in spot sprayers has continued to grow among western Canadian farmers over the past decade. It’s easy to understand why. Spot sprayers can detect and spray a weed, leaving a crop untouched, and can dramatically reduce the use of expensive chemicals thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and state-of-the-art sensors. While […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures gain on higher beef values, tight supplies

Mail strike disrupts grain sample delivery

U.S. grains: Soybeans tick up as market weighs crops, U.S.-China ties

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