It’s been a long time coming and in the works,” said Denise Hockaday, Canada business lead for The Climate Corporation. The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto, launched a new data service in the U.S. in 2015 and in Eastern Canada last year. Prairie farmers will have access to Climate FieldView for the first time […] Read more
New digital data platform on the Prairies
The Climate Corp. launches its Climate FieldView service in Western Canada
New oilseed and soybean varieties for 2018
XTend soybeans have become a standard part of the soybean variety portfolio
In August the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association surveyed retail companies about their experience with the herbicide dicamba in the 2017 growing season. Of the 124 respondents (including some head offices with several branches), more than 80 per cent said they’d seen dicamba damage in soybean fields adjacent to where soybeans were sprayed, although they […] Read more
New cereal seed varieties for 2018
This year’s crop of varieties are all about fighting fusarium and increasing crop yields
You only need to take a quick look at this list to see that seed companies are responding to farmers’ needs. Fusarium continues to be a problem across the Prairies (where there isn’t a drought). On July 13, 2017, farmers across most of Manitoba were facing a red zone on the fusarium head blight (FHB) […] Read more
Meet your farming neighbours: Robert Ellis
Every farm has a story. Here’s the story of one in west-central Saskatchewan
Every farm has its own story. No two farms (or farmers) are exactly alike. Everyone got started in a different way, and every farm has a different combination of family and hired staff who make the decisions and keep things running. But, in general, even after you consider all of the details, Prairie farmers are […] Read more
Four things to know about herbicide layering
Layer your herbicides to increase your odds of avoiding resistant weeds
Herbicide layering was on the agenda at Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Crop Diagnostic School near Indian Head this past summer. Cory Jacob, regional crop specialist in Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Watrous office, walked participants through the process. 1. What is herbicide layering? “We’re basically talking about layering on multiple herbicide modes of action and groups in sequential application. So, mainly your pre-seed and […] Read more
Vive le Québec différence
“Farming” in Quebec is definitely not what we’re used to here on the Prairies
When the Canadian Farm Writers Federation announced they were holding their 2017 meeting in Quebec City, I went straight to the Internet to find the registration form. As well as full programs of speakers CFWF conferences are known for featuring great agricultural tours. This year’s agenda didn’t disappoint, as delegates to the Quebec conference at the […] Read more
BASF’s new Canadian stake to include three plants, 300 staff
Among the major players still in the world’s crop protection and seed business, remaining competitive comes at a cost. To be sure, several smaller companies remain in the game — but with marriages now consummated for Dow Chemical and DuPont, and for Syngenta and ChemChina, Bayer’s pending takeover of Monsanto and, now, BASF getting set […] Read more
Dicamba drift debacle decoded
Tom Wolfe blames inversions for much of the 2017 U.S. soybean damage
Saskatchewan Agriculture’s annual Crop Diagnostic School was held near Indian Head, Sask., this July. Tom Wolfe, owner of Agrimetrix Research & Training and sprayer specialist, was on hand to talk about sprayer technology and the dicamba problems that took place in the U.S. this summer. “This year was a defining year for spray technology,” Wolfe told Crop Diagnostic […] Read more
Win your own Christmas present
It’s early for Christmas shopping, but if you win this contest, this lovely coffee table book could arrive just in time for the season. The same people that brought you Red Combines 1915-2015 are back at it, this time with Red 4WD Tractors 1957-2017. Writer Lee Klancher has written the story of how early models […] Read more
Our Grainews Machinery Challenge farmer panel on telehandlers
Reader opinions: two contest-winning farmers joined the Grainews judges to evaluate our test machines
The “official” judging team for this year’s Grainews Machinery Challenge included active farmers. But we wondered how our group of test machines might fit into our readers’ farming operations. The best way to answer that, we thought, was to put a few of them in the drivers’ seats. So, Grainews held a contest in the […] Read more
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