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Schleitheim in the Fall: Schleitheim is the village I live in and write from.
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Letter from Europe

Farm Perspectives

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Background: Marianne Stamm grew up on a pioneer farm in the Peace country of British Columbia. Marriage to her Swiss husband Robert sent her to a mixed family farm in Switzerland, then back to a grain farm in Westlock, Alberta. She has now moved back to Switzerland to be near the grandchildren. Looking at the […] Read more
What’s affecting land rental rates
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What’s affecting land rental rates

The farmland rental market can respond to a lot of different market factors

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When the value of land goes up it tends to affect land rental prices too, but it’s not the only factor that has seen land rents increase over the past few years — in some areas quite dramatically. Productivity of the land is also hugely important, as is the amount of competition for land in […] Read more
Dr. Jim Radtke, Cibus’ senior vice president, product development, explains that Cibus’ breeding method results in SU-tolerant, non-GMO canola.
Canola, Crops, Features

SU-tolerant canola from Cibus

Cibus’ sulfonylurea-tolerant

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Cibus, a U.S. company, is bringing a new sulfonylurea-tolerant canola to the market. Cibus developed SU-tolerant canola using non-transgenic breeding technologies. That is, breeding, without introducing foreign genetic material. As Dr. Jim Radtke, Cibus’ senior vice president, product development, says, we are “making changes in plants without incorporating foreign DNA and thus the plants are […] Read more
Canola farmlands in rural Central West of NSW at sunset, the last rays spread their warm light on the golden canola flowers. Panorama
Crops, Features

Calculating land rental costs

Renting might be the right choice for your farm. But how much should you pay?

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Calculating how much you can afford to pay for rented land takes a certain amount of work, and there may even be some cost involved if you bring in advisors to help, but it may help mitigate some of your risk and prevent you from biting off more than you can chew. There are various […] Read more
lentils in a bowl
Crops, Features, Lentils

Lentils: the crop year in review

2016 brought a wet season and a damp harvest. Lentil crops didn’t like that

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Lentil growers had a hard time pulling off a good crop in 2016. A wet growing season and damp harvest plagued many farmers. “Without a doubt there were some good quality lentils produced in 2016, but the percentage of high quality lentils produced would be much lower than what we typically see in Western Canada,” […] Read more
NorthStar Genetics has four new varieties on offer for 2017.
Crops, Features, Soybeans

New soybean seed varieties for 2017

Twenty-four new soybean varieties are coming to the market for western Canadian farmers

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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
Weed researchers are studying several options to control herbicide-resistant weeds. Researchers need to test each product or practice alone, and in combination.
Crops, Features

Use diversity to fight resistant weeds

The latest in using integrated weed management tools for hard-to-manage weeds

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A three-year study in Arkansas has found that a combination of fall management practices and herbicide use are the most effective ways to control herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth, when combined with a herbicide program. But Arkansas isn’t Alberta. So what can western Canadian farmers learn from this study? More and more often the message in weed […] Read more
Dean Glenney found an abundance of earthworm holes in the non-trafficked areas of his field.
Crops, Features

CTF benefits soil over time

Fencerow farming system increases corn yield and changes farmers’ soil biology

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Fifteen years ago, when the bin-full alarm went off on Dean Glenney’s combine as he harvested his corn crop near Dunnville, Ontario, he had no idea what was going on, and he certainly didn’t expect the record yield of 236 bushels per acre he pulled off the field that season. Since then his yields have […] Read more
After he harvested winter triticale in 2015, Garry Richards was able to graze cattle in the re-growing cover crop vegetation. This picture was taken on November 2.
Crops, Features

Holistic farming in practice

This Saskatchewan farmer has changed his rotations to work with nature

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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
Crops, Features, Livestock

What is holistic management?

Are cover crops on the rise?

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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

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