It looks a bit like a meat grinder, but a new device developed by Manitoba farmer Gerry Devloo is specifically designed to crank out information on the quality of canola being harvested. Devloo, who along with family members farms near Somerset in south-central Manitoba, has developed a canola seed crusher that measures and crushes a […] Read more
Improved tool to determine green canola seed count
A hand-held roller works, but this device cranks out ready-to-read samples
Canola: Straight cut versus swathed
New shatter-resistant canola varieties have a straight cutting edge
After 20 years of straight cutting canola on his central Alberta farm Wilson Lovell doesn’t even own a swather anymore, although he admits waiting for the crop to ripen is hard on his finger nails. He’s evaluated the two harvest options closely, and Lovell is convinced there is risk of a 10 to 30 per […] Read more
New fall ryes have all the features
Bake it, drink it, or feed it to livestock – it's high quality and high value
Get ready for a new generation of fall rye varieties that are high yielding, have high milling quality and perform well across a wide range of soil types and moistures conditions. Hybrid fall rye varieties that promise much more yield and market potential than the traditional open-pollenated varieties have become available to Western Canadian farmers […] Read more
Important “summer thinking” ahead
In perhaps what is a window between field spraying and harvest it may be a good time to think about the overall business/financial planning sides of the farm operation, says consultant Art Lange. Lange, a long-time Alberta Agriculture specialist who has been consulting for a dozen years, says there are some key questions producers should […] Read more
And the big wrap up on AIM day three
BY LEE HART Nothing impresses a crop protection company expert more when talking to an ag reporter than to demonstrate your knowledge of the agriculture industry. So I got off to amazing start on the third morning at the Ag In Motion farm show in Saskatchewan — as I was looking for the scoop on nitrogen […] Read more
India tire maker checks out Canadian market
Coming from a home town with a population of nearly 30 million people in a country where three acres is a common farm size —250 acres is getting into the “Big” farm range — it is no wonder Tarang Srivastava was impressed Tuesday with the seemingly endless wheat and canola fields in the Saskatoon area. “Who […] Read more
Another day at the office for Stampede bulls
As The Stampede is about to kick off in Calgary in a couple days it is good to know that bulls are looking forward to (or at least not dreading) the 10 days of rodeo events. That’s the word anyway from a University of Calgary researcher Ed Pajor. He’s a professor in animal behavior at […] Read more
Get out there and love your peas
You know when the crop checker leaves a handwritten note in the field, weighted down with a rock, and signed with “XOXO” that your field peas are in good hands. Not everyone would put this amount of feeling into checking crop conditions, so when I found this note on the edge of a southern Alberta […] Read more
Running a 24-hour seeding operation
Once the drill is parked, Terry Aberhart takes time to look back at his seeding schedule
With the crop in the ground by late May and rainshowers moving in, Terry Aberhart says the post-seeding season will be a good time to think about how they will be approaching plans for the 2017 crop year on their east-central Saskatchewan farm. Aberhart, who along with family members operates Aberhart Farms at Langenburg, near […] Read more
Good beef marketing services
I’ve been away from this blogging thing for so long, I can only imagine how many people are wandering around wondering what to do with their days — well you now have some purpose… I am back. It’s not my fault I suffer from severe procrastination. I don’t know how many times I have seen a […] Read more
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