ATP gave nutrients a chance to show what they could do at its Canola 100 plot at the Ag In Motion farm show near Saskatoon last July. First, there were the nutrients ATP put down with the drill. In the seed row: 20 pounds of phosphorus per acre, two pounds of zinc, a half pound of copper, a […] Read more
ATP packs on the nutrients at AIM plots
Ag In Motion Plots: ATP played a high-end game, with 215 pounds of N and a buffet of micros
New products at Quarry Seed
Quarry Seed is no longer distributing for Thunder seed and is now bringing Prograin soybeans to Western Canada. Last year, Quarry’s 60 plus dealers across the Prairies sold Thunder Seed soybeans and corn. General manager Shawn Rempel says the company is working toward having access to grain and silage corn in the near future. Prograin is a private […] Read more
New corn varieties for 2017
With more than 20 new corn varieties, farmers have some research to do
If you’re farming in a corn-growing area in Western Canada, you’ll have more than 20 new varieties to consider for your 2017 rotations. New genetics bring higher yields and better disease packages, while shorter-season varieties may expand the corn-growing regions to new areas. BrettYoung BrettYoung E50P52 R: E50P52 R is a new VT Double PRO […] Read more
New cereal varieties for 2017
New spring wheat, barley, durum and special wheat varieties to add to next year’s plans
While lists of new corn, canola and soybean varieties have been very long, there are only a handful of new cereal varieties on the market for 2017. Canterra Spring wheat: AAC Cameron VB is a very high yielding CWRS wheat with resistance to the orange blossom wheat midge. It has medium maturity and very good lodging resistance. AAC […] Read more
Winter wheat seed: treatment pays
A dual fungicide/insecticide seed treatment builds hardier winter wheat stands
Despite the benefits of winter wheat — weed competitiveness, high yield potential and a schedule that allows growers to spread out work load and capital costs — it’s still not a staple crop for many western Canadian farmers. Farmers say concerns about planting logistics and poor stand establishment are obstacles to growing winter wheat. To […] Read more
New soybean seed varieties for 2017
Twenty-four new soybean varieties are coming to the market for western Canadian farmers
If you haven’t been watching the market for new soybean seed, you have some catching up to do. There are 24 new varieties — that’s right, 24 — for 2017. And that is just the new varieties, not the almost-new varieties that have been released in the last two or three years. Companies have been […] Read more
New canola varieties for 2017
With 18 new varieties to choose from, growers have a lot of decisions to make
Farmers shopping around for canola seed for next spring are spoiled for choice. We’ve rounded up a list of 18 new varieties hitting the market for the first time in 2017. These 18 come in addition to the high-yielding varieties we’ve already been seeing in western Canadian fields for the past decade. This roundup of […] Read more
Holistic farming in practice
This Saskatchewan farmer has changed his rotations to work with nature
When Garry Richards left his job as a pharmacist and brought his wife home to his family farm near Bangor, Sask., in the late ’90s, he had one main goal. “We wanted to make the farm work, so that we didn’t have to subsidize it from off-farm jobs in the long term.” He didn’t expect it […] Read more
What is holistic management?
Are cover crops on the rise?
Holistic management is a framework for making decisions by looking at your entire environment, including your soil and the living organisms in it, how you’re capturing rainfall and energy from the sun and the diversity of the entire biological community. It also includes taking into account the environmental, economic and social consequences of the decisions […] Read more
The basics of pulse nodulation
Nodulation 101: how pulse crops work with bacteria to fix their own nitrogen
At Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Crop Diagnostic School at Swift Current in July, a lot of the in-field real estate was devoted to plots of lentils and peas. Organizers had seeded plots of both crops with and without nitrogen, and with and without inoculant. These plots gave Garry Hnatowich, research director at Saskatchewan’s Irrigation Crop Diversification Corporation […] Read more
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