Guy Lafond says if you have 300 flax plants per square metre, then your plant stand will not be a limiting factor for yield. The Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research scientist made this and other recommendations at Saskatchewan-Flax-Development Commission’s meeting at Crop Week in Saskatoon. Lafond presented findings from a long-term flax study he led […] Read more
Target A Flax Stand Of At Least 300 Plants/M2
Trade Barriers Shave $1 Off Canola Price
Canada should put more emphasis on bilateral — country to country — trade negotations and less on multilateral negotiations through the World Trade Organization. That’s the word from Larry Weber, a regular market-analysis speaker at Crop Week events. “To think the WTO is going to improve any of our problems is misguided,” Weber said at […] Read more
Yellow Peas Hard-Pressed To Reach $7
Saskatchewan farm journalist Kevin Hursh, moderator of the pea market outlook panel at the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers’ meeting at Crop Week, put panelists on the spot asking for their pea price predictions for 2010. Greg Kostal, president of Kostal Ag Consulting in Winnipeg, says “sometime in the next 12 months the price will run to […] Read more
How To Keep A Drill In Line
The question this time comes from David Cornea of Morse, Sask. David has a John Deere drill and he wants to improve tracking on side slopes. Automatic steering keeps the tractor in line, but that doesn’t help much when gravity pulls the drill off line. What can he do? ANSWER You have a few mechanical […] Read more
$5,000 Buys A 4X4 At Canadian Tire
Edwin Plohr paid $3,000 for a new two-wheel-drive 250cc Panterra ATV two years ago. This is the only ATV the farmer from Raymore, Sask., has ever owned, so he doesn’t have personal experience with any of the well-known brands, but he’s been pleased with it so far. Panterra ATVs are made in China and imported […] Read more
5 Tips To Winterize Your ATV
“With EFI, you turn the key and it starts. You can’t get that kind of winter starting with a carburetor model.” —DONNA BEADLE, POLARIS All-terrian vehicles are great in the summer. They go pretty much anywhere in the back country at decent speed and can carry a reasonable load. But in winter, some of them […] Read more
How To Load A Producer Car
The trend in producer car loading is coming back again,” says Don McLean, who farms near Manitou, Man. McLean is president of Boundary Loading Group Inc., a new producer-car loading facility at Darlingford, and a director with Boundary Trails Railroad, which runs the 26-mile short line from Morden to Manitou. Numbers from the Canadian Wheat […] Read more
New CNH Products For 2010
Continuously variable transmission is now available on Case IH Magnum 180, 190, 210 and 225 tractors. CVT is simple to use, even with minimal training, which makes it the ideal transmission for less experienced operators, the company says. You select the working speed, and the tractor’s “diesel saver automatic productivity management” (APM) system automatically and […] Read more
Creating a market for a “good idea” is more likely to miss than hit, but Scott Sigvaldason is working hard to sell AC Gehl hulless oats as a rice alternative
Scott Sigvaldason knew Gehl was something special right away. She was unlike any other he had seen come through his feed processing plant near Netley, Man. She was truly hulless and completely hairless. He likes that kind of thing — especially in an oat. “This isn’t pigfeed,” he said at first sight. Instant love can […] Read more
NuLin 50 And Other Tidbits
NuLin 50, developed by Viterra, is the first high omega-3 flax variety to be registered in Canada. “It exhibits several traits, including high yields and improved oil content, desired by growers and end users,” the company says. Trial data comparing NuLin 50 to CDC Bethune showed that NuLin 50 yielded 103 per cent of Bethune […] Read more
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