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Four ways you can get ready to grow corn
Corn, Crops, Features

Four ways you can get ready to grow corn

Get prepared now if you're thinking of growing corn for the first time next spring

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While it’s true some early-adopters have been growing corn in Western Canada for upwards of 25 years, it’s a new crop for many. And with new corn hybrids now available to suit Western Canada’s unique short-season needs, many more growers are expected to jump on the corn bandwagon in the coming years. Corn has much […] Read more
A laker vessel sits docked at the grain terminal awaiting filling.
Crops, Features

PHOTOS: Your wheat, loaded up and ready

Your local elevator is not the last stop on your grains' journey to end markets

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These photos were taken by Dana Omland, grain merchandising manager for Ceres Global Ag Corp. Omland has been part of Ceres’ trading and risk management team since May 2015, when the company opened a grain merchandising office in Guelph, Ont. Omland took these photos in September. He said, “It really was a bit of history […] Read more
Gord Nystuen gave a presentation on input prices at the Ag In Motion Farm Show near Saskatoon this summer.
Features

Commodity streaming for farm finance

Input Capital offers working capital to finance inputs for western Canadian canola growers

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Commodity streaming is a term most Canadians associate with the mining industry, if they’ve heard it at all. But over the next several years, they may be hearing it more and more, along with the name Input Capital, the Regina-based company that introduced it to western Canadian agriculture. Input Capital, whose shares trade on the […] Read more
Jason Knott printed a packer for the Technotill Seeding system.
Features, Machinery

Need an equipment part for your machine? Just print it

As the cost falls and the technology improves, 3D printing is becoming relevant to agriculture

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When you think of printers, farming isn’t the first thing that comes to mine. However, the ag industry is no stranger to creative thinking, and as 3D printing technology becomes more accessible, it is being used to make everything from machinery parts to demonstration models. Basically, 3D printing allows you to print a three-dimensional object rather […] Read more
Jim Blome is the president and CEO of Bayer CropScience LP in North America.
Crops, Features

Bayer looks ahead to the future

Bayer CropScience’s CEO says its product range and focus on research drives success

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In late August at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, Jim Blome, president and CEO of Bayer CropScience LP for North America, spoke to ag media about Bayer’s business. Some customers might be put off by the sheer size of Bayer, a multinational company headquartered in Germany. When all facets of the company […] Read more
bee on canola flower
Crops, Features

Farmers can manage bee risk

While neonicitoids poise risks to bees, farmers and the ag industry can manage these risks

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Neonicotinoids pose risks to bees in three ways, says a researcher. But farmers and the ag industry can manage the biggest risks, he told delegates at the International Rapeseed Conference in Saskatoon this past summer. Dr. Udo Heimbach researches pesticide use and environmental effects with Germany’s Julius Kuhn-Institut. He presented research studying neonics’ effects on […] Read more
This Droughtmaster heifer was one of the animals on display at the breed exhibit during the Commonwealth Bank AgQuip event in Australia in August.
Features, Livestock

Cattle bred for Australia’s north

Grainews in Australia: With a little Canadian help, producers down under created Droughtmaster cattle

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There probably isn’t a cattle farmer anywhere across the Canadian prairie in January that wouldn’t gladly trade places with an Australian farmer, particularly when the mercury disappears in the bottom of the thermometer. But the generally balmy climate down under isn’t without its challenges for stock growers either. The conditions cattle must contend with in the northern […] Read more
Canola straight cutting on the rise
Canola, Crops, Features

Canola straight cutting on the rise


Some growers are ditching their swathers in favour of straight combining in canola fields

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Straight cutting is common practice for cereal crops, but canola presents unique challenges, particularly the risk of pod shatter, that have kept growers from adopting the practice. But that may be changing. According to a recent BASF Canada survey, the number of growers straight cutting canola rose by 50 per cent from 2013 to 2014’s […] Read more
Troy Missen stands beside his single disc planter. Low soil disturbance is a key part of his ryegrass management strategy.
Crops, Features

Herbicide resistance is a global problem

Like Canadians, Australian farmers are planning their strategies to manage herbicide resistance

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Andrew Morrison’s family bought their farm, southwest of Melbourne, Australia, in 1910. His family home is built from bluestone, a volcanic rock used by earlier generations to construct buildings and fences. Morrison’s farm was originally a livestock operation. After a drought in 1982, the Morrisons started continuous cropping. These days it’s a mixed farm, with […] Read more
Dallas Leduc, who farms near Glentworth, Sask., says he hasn’t run into many problems when it comes to meeting contract requirements, although year-to-year price changes can be frustrating.

Crops, Features

The fine print on grain contracts

Lee Hart talks to seven Prairie grain farmers about their experiences 
with grain contracts

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Grain contracts: they appear to be a necessary part of doing business for most western Canadian farmers, but how many actually read them? The Canadian Canola Growers Association* has published a handy and informative booklet called, “A Practical Guide to Navigate Grain Contracts.” It is a quick and easy, 21-page read which covers many of the […] Read more

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