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Soil testing and fertilizer recommendations on the Prairies
Columns, Crops

Soil testing and fertilizer recommendations on the Prairies

Are you getting the best 4R recommendations for your farm?

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I have been retired for almost 10 years, but farmers still contact me occasionally with questions about their soil test reports and for assistance with interpretation. I am a big fan of soil testing but soil sampling, soil analyses and interpretation all must be done correctly. If not, results can be very misleading and costly […] Read more
Trying multiple varieties will better help Prairie growers understand what does -- and doesn't -- work on their fields, Horst Bohner says
Features, Soybeans

Planting just one soybean variety is a ‘mistake’

Growers should try at least three, an Ontario soy expert says

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Horst Bohner is convinced — completely so — that farmers should plant more than one variety of soybeans. If they don’t, they are making a “mistake,” he says. “As a basic starting point, I think every grower should seed at least three varieties. Every year. As a minimum. Hopefully more than that,” says Bohner, the […] Read more
Joey Vanneste of the CGC shows farmers at a Swift Current, Sask. seminar two types of sieves used in the official grain grading process.
Crops, Features

Grain grading tools not just at the elevator

Learn how to assess what you have in the bin

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Grain grading isn’t strictly the realm of elevator operators and private consultants. The information you need to survey your own grain’s quality — short of an official grade — is publicly available, according to recent seminars hosted by Saskatchewan producer groups. Saskatchewan wheat, barley, canola and flax associations hosted officials from the Canadian Grain Commission […] Read more
Concentrating 13 growing seasons into five years gets the latest traits and technologies into growers’ hands.
Features, Soybeans

Breeding picks up its pace

Thirteen years of testing, selecting and production now done in five

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The pace of plant breeding has quickened by leaps and bounds, from selective breeding to the use of transgenics. Yet the process of breeding seeds with desired traits, rechecking for trait and yield performance and increasing those numbers for commercial availability takes more than 10 years. Or does it? With the use of continuous nursery […] Read more
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Features, Soybeans

Window now wider, but ideal timing to plant soy still same

Risks also remain if pushing luck with planting depth and rates

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Glacier FarmMedia — Provincial pulse and soybean specialist Dennis Lange says the window for planting soybeans in Manitoba is getting wider. “In the past, one of our big concerns was planting soybeans too early,” he says. “That was our initial discussion a few years ago.” Soybeans are susceptible to frost, and historically, the risk of […] Read more
Sticky yellow traps like this one were used to conduct flea beetle counts and were replaced each week as part of the study.
Canola, Features

Seeding rate may help manage flea beetle populations

A recent study investigated the effect of plant density on flea beetle populations in canola crops

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Flea beetles have become Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to canola. Yield losses of 10 per cent are common and it’s estimated the troublesome pest costs growers in North America more than $300 million annually. Results of a study recently conducted in Western Canada could help growers better manage flea beetle populations in […] Read more
Seed treated with Vibrance Total, a combination of five different fungicide groups being brought to market for the 2024 season.
Features, Pulses

The year in pulse crop inputs

A quick look at new actives, new combinations and expanded labels

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Following up on last issue’s roundup of product launches and label expansions in the cereal crop input market, here we’ve put together a quick list of new and/or improved pulse crop inputs that were announced in our earshot during the past year, including several due out for the coming growing season. Again, if we’ve inadvertently […] Read more
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Canola, Markets

Funds still sitting on large net short position in canola

Soybeans' net short position increased by about 5,000 contracts

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The large net short position in canola futures held relatively steady during the week ended Jan. 30, with speculative traders making only minor adjustments, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

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