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Crops, Features

Future seeds were sown in the past

Consider last year’s crop yields when making plans for next year’s fertility program

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This time of year it’s typically a good idea to remind producers that the seeds of our future are sown in the past. Your 2016 crop yields will be influenced by 2015 fertility and removal rates. Basically, we need to look back at the growing season and see how certain factors influenced the current crop, […] Read more
This flax field was treated for pasmo with Headline. The poorer-looking triangle in the centre is the spot the sprayer missed.
Crops, Features

Flax researcher’s agronomy tips

Agronomy researcher Chris Holzapfel shares what he’s learned about growing flax

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If you count each research plot as a crop, Chris Holzapfel has grown more crops in a few years than most farmers have a chance to grow in a lifetime. As research manager for the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that facilitates crop research and technology transfer. Holzapfel’s research includes several different […] Read more
Those critters are farming your soil
Crops, Features

Those critters are farming your soil

Soil Health: Healthy soil includes a healthy, complicated, diverse mix of bacteria and fungi

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This was a clear message delivered by Mario Tenuta, Canada research chair in applied soil ecology and professor at the University of Manitoba, at a recent Manitoba Farm Writers and Broadcasters Association lunch. “What the heck is soil health?” asked Tenuta. “You hear a lot about it these days, especially this year, the 2015 International […] Read more
Crops, Features

Licensed to turn waste into fertilizer

Lystek International received authorization for another wastewater conversion facility

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Lystek International has received another federal registration for its award-winning biosolids and organics processing technology. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has certified the company’s St. Mary’s, Ontario, facility for the production of LysteGro, a biofertilizer that can increase organic matter in the soil. LysteGro is made by treating sludge from municipal wastewater at approved facilities. “The Lystek […] Read more
Christina and Andy pose beside Crowfoot Ag Solution’s fertilizer dome. The dome is a storage and blending facility.
Crops, Features

Building an agricultural retail business

Andy and Christina Stender have grown Crowfoot Ag from scratch to a booming retail operation

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A few years ago, Andy and Christina Stender were looking for a change. The couple, who both have agronomy backgrounds, were ready to leave their jobs. They went on holidays, and when they got home, a message on their answering machine would change their career paths. Someone had called about a business opportunity. Greg Andrukow, […] Read more
Sask. mustard: small but mighty
Crops, Features

Sask. mustard: small but mighty

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more growers 
out there

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2015 was a challenging year for many crops across the Prairies, and mustard was no exception. But Saskatchewan growers say the outlook is good. Although mustard acres decreased in Saskatchewan in 2015 — by as much as 100,000 acres, to around 300,000 seeded acres in the province — mustard prices remain high, ranging from 30 […] Read more
An irrigation canal meanders through Lakes of Muirfield. The Western Irrigation District has been managing competing water uses and growing urbanization within its borders.
Crops, Features

Prairie land use and water rights

Alberta’s Western Irrigation District finds its way while it straddles the urban-rural divide

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Straddling the urban-rural divide is an uncomfortable balancing act. Alberta’s Western Irrigation District, headquartered in Strathmore, has kept its balance by co-operating where it can, and getting tough when needed. For years, the irrigation district had a rocky relationship with the city of Calgary. Stormwater from the city would wash contaminants such as salt, phosphorus, […] Read more
Canola, Features

There’s a new processing giant on the block

Change is in store for farmers with the sale of Legumex Walker's Special Crops Division

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On November 9, 2015 Legumex Walker shareholders voted overwhelmingly to accept The Scoular Company’s offer to buy its Special Crops Division for $94 million. The completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close by the end of November. This marks the end of Legumex Walker’s journey as one of […] Read more
canola field
Canola, Features

Training the next generation of plant breeders

U of M students get hands-on experience developing herbicide-tolerant rapeseed hybrids

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According to Rob Duncan, professor in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Manitoba, the university is ahead of the curve in terms of canola/rapeseed breeding in Canada. “Most public breeding programs don’t necessarily release cultivars anymore,” he says. “They’ll do germplasm development or work on trait development, but to work on breeding […] Read more
A pasture infested with leafy spurge. This perennial weed spreads quickly and crowds out native vegetation.
Crops, Features

Battling with leafy spurge in Sask.

Leafy spurge is persistent, invasive, and hard to control. Know your enemy

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One of the most persistent and problematic weeds to infest large areas of pasture and prairie in Western Canada is leafy spurge. It is even a larger problem in the northern U.S. — North Dakota, and parts of Montana are badly infested; Wisconsin and Minnesota are also dealing with it. Leafy spurge is not native […] Read more

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