Tillage equipment Archives - Page 5 of 15

Stuart Smyth says his research study illustrates how glyphosate and herbicide-tolerant canola have helped to boost sustainability on Saskatchewan farms by facilitating a shift to no-till systems.

Study shows glyphosate, no-till systems and herbicide-tolerant crops benefit Prairie agriculture

Benefits include improved soil quality, less erosion, increased carbon sequestration, and reduced fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions

By Mark Halsall September 19, 2023

Glyphosate is Canada’s top-selling pesticide, mostly used in agriculture as a herbicide and to desiccate crops for harvest. While it has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, glyphosate continues to play an important weed management role on many western Canadian farms. A study by University of Saskatchewan researchers suggests glyphosate has served another important […] Read more

Low-lying areas with standing water are prone to leaching and denitrification.

Crops, Features

Nitrification and urease inhibitors

Before you buy, understand when and where these products will provide the greatest economic benefit to your farm

By Jim Timlick September 18, 2023

With fertilizer prices remaining historically high, farmers continue to seek ways to get the best bang for their buck when it comes to crop nutrients. Nitrification and urease inhibitors are a popular and practical option. They can be applied with nitrogen-based fertilizers to improve nutrient use efficiency and they can also potentially limit greenhouse gas […] Read more

This photo was taken in 1946 near Saskatoon, Sask. The telephone poles were barely visible.

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Gone with the wind. Soil erosion by wind mostly history in the Prairies

Soils and Crops: We need to let society know

By Les Henry September 7, 2023

Our grandfathers broke the rich prairie sod in the early 1900s. Even then, power and machinery were available to keep the soil free of weeds in the fallow year and pulverize the soil in the process. Serious wind erosion started soon after cultivation, but the “dirty thirties” are best known for land destruction that sent […] Read more

A Concord Disc Drill HD double-disc opener. (ConcordSeeding.com)

Crops, Machinery

Concord seeding equipment brand to be discontinued

Products and designs to continue, but under Vaderstad banner

By Dave Bedard September 2, 2023

A brand of air seeding equipment dating back almost five decades in North Dakota and beyond is poised to disappear in the 2024 model year. Concord — a brand owned since 2021 by an arm of Swedish seeding, planting and tillage equipment firm Väderstad — will no longer be sold under the Concord name, the […] Read more

Attendees weren’t complaining about the road conditions at Ag in Motion. (Western Producer photo by Alex McCuaig)

Crops, Machinery, Weather

At Ag in Motion: Exhibitors ready after rainy first day

Wednesday typically AiM's most popular day

By GFM Network News July 19, 2023

The sun is shining, exhibitors are ready and the grounds are prepared for a traditionally-busy second day of the Ag in Motion show near Langham, Sask. Opening day saw the clouds roll in and the skies open up, but few were complaining about the much-needed moisture that rolled through much of Western Canada on Tuesday. […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Degelman buys grain bagging, milling equipment firm Renn

Alberta equipment maker's staff to continue with Degelman

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 9, 2023

Regina ag implement maker Degelman Industries has bought into the grain bagging and grain milling equipment business with a deal for Alberta manufacturer Renn Mill Center. Degelman, in a release Thursday, said it recently bought the Lacombe, Alta. company for an undisclosed sum and will keep Renn’s existing employees and management in place. In business […] Read more

Aphanomyces euteiches is believed to be one of the main culprits behind the increasing incidence of root rot in pulse crops such as lentils in Western Canada.

Crops, Features, Pulses

Root rots in pulses update for 2023

Scientists and plant breeders are hopeful they can provide solutions, but long and diverse crop rotations are still the best management options

By Jim Timlick May 1, 2023

Over the last decade, root rots have become widespread on the Canadian Prairies and are now a fact of life for many pulse growers. Grow the same crop long enough, experts say, and it’s almost certain root rots will show up in your fields. And it’s no small problem for farmers in Western Canada. Some […] Read more

Willem van Staveren says perennials and winter annuals such as dandelions, thistle and particularly kochia are targeted in the farm’s fall weed control program.

Crops, Features

Weed control timing is important: sooner is better than later

If weeds get the upper hand, a percentage of yield loss can’t be recovered

By Lee Hart April 11, 2023

Willem van Staveren says you can’t beat early weed control. In fact, every year on the family-run southern Saskatchewan farm, the Van Staverens plan for a post-harvest herbicide application to help control winter annual and perennial weeds in preparation for the following growing season. “It is important for us to make the late fall herbicide […] Read more

Manufactured in Saskatoon, Sask., the Redekop Seed Control Unit can be fitted onto the back of a combine to provide harvest weed seed control.

Equipment, Features

Use multiple strategies to control weeds in your crops

Rising herbicide resistance means it’s time to broaden your weed control arsenal with chemical, mechanical and non-chemical methods

By Mark Halsall March 27, 2023

Herbicides have long been the go-to solution for Prairie grain producers fighting weed infestations. Over time, it has led to widespread resistance development in many weed species and a shrinking list of chemical options for controlling pervasive weeds like kochia and wild oats that have become resistant to multiple modes of action in recent years. […] Read more

If your cropland is presently clubroot-free, keep it that way. Do not allow any mud-carrying equipment of any kind on your cropland other than your own farm equipment. Plant resistant varieties and keep the land clubroot-free to enhance your financial future.

Columns, Crops

Present and future plant disease and weed issues in the Prairies, Part 1

Disease prevention works if you follow standard crop biosecurity procedures

By Ieuan Evans March 6, 2023

Here are 10 of the more important disease and weed issues in Western Canada, but I could easily add 10 more. 1. Clubroot of canola2. Cereal cyst nematode3. Soybean cyst nematode4. Aphanomyces root rot of peas and lentils5. Verticillium wilt of canola6. Sudden death syndrome of soybean7. Potato cyst nematode8. Potato powdery scab9. Sclerotinia white […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures weaken on harvest pressure, firm dollar

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher, though traders uncertain about demand

Feed Grain Weekly: Corn prices steady, barley harvest slows

GFM Network News