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The University of Manitoba has been conducting trials on soybean’s phosphorus uptake.
Crops, Features, Soybeans

Do soybeans need phosphorus?

Phosphorus fertilizer won’t increase soybean yield, but good strategies can maintain fertility

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Soybeans are efficient feeders for soil phosphorus (P) and in most cases growers are not going to see an increase in yield from additional P fertilization, regardless of the soil test P, according to research trials in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Since 2013, Dr. Don Flaten and Gustavo Bardella of the University of Manitoba, together with […] Read more
soybean field
Crops, Features

Manage your fields like a business

Changing your thinking about your cropping plans can make you more money

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Farmers can make more money from their cash crops if they’re more selective about the land that they farm. This means focusing inputs and capital only on the most profitable areas of a field, limiting expenditures on under-performing areas — and perhaps taking some land out of agricultural production entirely. That was advice for growers […] Read more
Combine Unloading
Crops, Features

Making precision ag work for you

Software and technologies are evolving fast. Find the combination that works for you

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The software and technologies of precision agriculture have changed immensely since early yield monitors were first introduced. More and more tools are now available to cash crop growers to form data sets that help break fields into zones that allow for targeting of inputs and crop varieties specifically to those zones, says Doug Aspinall, a […] Read more
Management drives farm profits
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Management drives farm profits

An Ipsos study has identified the top seven habits of successful farmers. Do you have them?

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Results of a new national Ipsos study clearly show that management matters when it comes to farm business success. The report also identifies seven key habits that have the biggest impact on farm profitability. The survey included 604 farms of all types and sizes and farmers of all ages across Canada in the grains and […] Read more
Learning about the 4Rs online
Crops, Features

Learning about the 4Rs online

Online training offers way to help farmers communicate sustainable practices

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The 4Rs” is shorthand every western Canadian producer knows, even though the phrase has only been around for a few years. It stands, of course, for the Right source of nutrients at the Right rate and the Right time in the Right place. The 4R concept was developed by the Fertilizer Institute, the International Plant Nutrition […] Read more
NH launched an app allowing users of MyNewHolland.com to stay connected from remote locations.
Features, Machinery

MyNewHolland.com goes mobile

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In 2014 New Holland launched a website called MyNewHolland.com. It is open to anyone to use. Anyone visiting it can engage in ag-related discussions, enter contests or access some services. But for New Holland equipment owners, it can be personalized to help maintain and operate their machines. Owners of New Holland equipment can access other content […] Read more
With NH’s PLM Connect telematics a machine’s monitor screen can be viewed on a “virtual dashboard” remotely in real time by a farm manager connected to the system.
Features, Machinery

New Holland expands PLM Connect

PLM adds two-way wireless data transfers to its PLM Connect

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At a media briefing at New Holland’s North American headquarters in Pennsylvania last July, marketing managers updated journalists on the brand’s then-pending expansion of its PLM Connect telematics offering. The official public introduction was made at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in August. At the company’s test facility, Jordan Milewski, brand marketing manger, gave members […] Read more
Crops, Features

Watching the plants all season

The new way to scout: photos of your crop's progress through the growing season

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I’m working on a new project,” Franck Groeneweg says. “I’ve been working with aerial imagery. There’s a lot of drone excitement out there, but to get it done, I am using a regular fixed wing plane on my farm.” Groeneweg is flying his plane over farmland and using attached cameras to take aerial pictures of […] Read more
Just how deadly is not knowing?
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Just how deadly is not knowing?

Make sure you know the emergency operating procedures for all of your machinery

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Safety plans. Safety orientation. Training. Tail gate talks. SOPs (standard operating procedures). It is all so important in being a safe farm. A safe business. But how deadly is it really not knowing? In a word: very. Any number of things can go wrong, and quickly, in a farming operation. Especially “in season” when people […] Read more
Don’t skip the standard operating procedure
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Don’t skip the standard operating procedure

Not everyone is comfortable developing standard operating procedures. Get over it

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Winter can be a great time for planning, and safety planning should be included. Many producers have done environmental farm plans and have done safety plans. The next piece of the complex farm safety puzzle is one that is often is in the “assumed” category. The dreaded SOP (standard operating procedure). Why dreaded? Because of […] Read more

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