“Research shows if you have three wild oat plants per square foot and seed at about 50 pounds of seed per acre, you can expect a 22 per cent yield loss. If you increase the seeding rate to 120 pounds of seed per acre, your yield loss will be reduced to 11 per cent.” —STEVE […] Read more
Let Oats Control Weeds
GreenSeeker Set For Wheat And Canola
Saskatchewan farmers Grant Fulton and Lee Moats like the idea of applying nitrogen fertilizer when and where it is needed. For years they’ve had little option other than applying all their nitrogen at the time of seeding or before with hopes the growing season co-operated. This year, using GreenSeeker technology on field sprayer, s they’ll […] Read more
Tips To Work Around Obstacles
Chasing down every last acre in a field to get it seeded may not make the best economic sense, according to a study conducted by the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) in Humboldt, Sask. Jockeying around rocks, potholes, sloughs, creeks, roads, and oil, gas and power installations just to get that odd sized piece of […] Read more
Now That’s A Truck Wash
When you get your five-ton, your flat deck hay hauler, or your B-Train dirty this year head to Lloydminster, Alta., for the biggest and some say best truck wash in the country. The TransCanada Automatic Truck Wash located on Highway 16 opened in late 2008. The farmer-owned facility is billed as the largest truck wash […] Read more
To grow demand for canola, it helps to look at consumer trends. That way, Canadian canola growers and their industry partners can prepare to provide what people want this year, next year and for the next 15 years
If there was one message that was drilled home to delegates attending the recent Canola Council of Canada conference in Toronto, it’s that canola oil fits the diets of consumers looking for healthier food choices. As the general North American population gets older and fatter, canola oil can play an important role in helping to […] Read more
15 MT By 2015 On Track
As long as world markets and the economy pick up the pace over the next few years, canola has everything else going for it from a food, feed and fuel standpoint, delegates attending the recent annual Canola Council of Canada (CCC) conference learned. Canola oil has the nutritional properties to meet increasing demands for healthier […] Read more
Invest In Market Development
As any farmer who ever came up with an idea for a better gate latch knows, just because you have a good product doesn’t mean it is easy getting it into the marketplace. Canola is in the same situation. Producing more canola is one thing. Getting canola oil widely adopted in the North American food […] Read more
Options For Pre-Seed Burndown
Several new or newer herbicides on The Western Front are designed to provide effective pre-seeding burndown control of a wide range of weeds for 2009. Along with Monsanto’s tried and true glyphosate products that include WeatherMAX and Transorb HC, other crop protection companies are featuring products that either have a glyphosate-base or can be tank-mixed […] Read more
The Imperfect Herbicide World
You need to keep a variety of herbicides in your arsenal. No one product controls all weeds under all conditions. And weather, soil type, the weed spectrum and application timing each influences how well a product works, or doesn’t work, say producers in this issue’s panel. Know your weeds and keep scanning the product selections […] Read more
First there is a good likelihood you’ll go blind, followed by death
Did anyone else see the research that proved reading a daily paper (a daily paper, not Grainews), but reading a newspaper every day could cause premature blindness, and in 95 per cent of cases, leads to death. Yes, it is fact proven by a research team from the University of Manyberries, Alberta that those people […] Read more
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