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Stamps honoured with Motherwell Award

Richard and Marian Stamp are recognized for their commitment to the agriculture industry

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A southern Alberta couple has been recognized with an award for their overall commitment to bettering the agriculture industry, and their ongoing support for an organization that recognizes the achievements of some of the most progressive young farmers in the country. Richard and Marian Stamp, who along with family members operate Stamp Seeds farm at […] Read more
2014 Canada's Outstanding Young Farmers
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Manitoba and P.E.I. couples are OYFs

Two farm couples are lauded as Canada’s 2014’s Outstanding Young Farmers

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Continuing to expand their seed retail business in Manitoba, and building on the partnership they have with other potato growers in Prince Edward Island, are the priorities of the two farm families who were named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers (OYF) for 2014. Myron and Jill Krahn, who operate Krahn Agri Farms Ltd. at Carmen, Man. […] Read more
Features, Practical Tips

Proper planter maintenance for yield increases

Winter is a good time for planter inspections and maintenance, even if your planter is new this year

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Next year’s corn yields may be the last thing growers want to think about at this time of year, but as the snow begins to fall, it’s the perfect time to make sure you’re getting everything you can from your corn planter come spring. A properly calibrated planter could make a huge difference to your […] Read more
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A new business model for precision ag data packages

Farmers Edge CEO Wade Barnes hopes to profit by bringing a bigger data 
package to more customers with a new full service, low price model

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Farmers Edge has cut its per-acre pricing by more than 50 per cent for the 2015 growing season. Last year, farmers paid $8.95 per acre for a full-service package. This year, the price has fallen to $3.95 per acre, and that was lowered by a further 12 per cent for farmers who signed up before […] Read more
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Crops, Features

Northgate welcomed as another marketing option

An $80 million grain terminal and rail export service in southern Sask. is expected to encourage all grain companies to sharpen their pencils

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Cameron Nordin can’t wait until the first trains start hauling grain and canola out of a new rail terminal at Northgate, Saskatchewan, destined for U.S. markets. Right now, most of the crops from his southeast Saskatchewan farm near Oxbow are trucked about 60 miles east to a Cargill elevator at Elva, Manitoba. He has other […] Read more
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Crops, Features

Biochar: Good for the planet and your farm

Biochar, charcoal made from burning organic matter at low temperatures, 
could be a way to store CO2 and add nutrients to your soil

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By now you’ve heard all about about carbon emissions and climate change. You know that by burning hydrocarbons like oil and coal we humans have been putting CO2 into the atmosphere faster than natural processes can remove it, and that over the rest of this century this will result in more and more extreme weather […] Read more
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Crops, Features

Growing interest in growing hemp crops

Interest in hemp is on the rise. Some see it as a money making alternate crop

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In 2013, over 66,000 acres were licensed to cultivate hemp, a nearly 10-fold increase from 2003, according to the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance. “It’s a crop that there’s growing interest in it. Especially as canola’s starting to slump so bad,” says Harry Brook, crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. But farmers can’t throw […] Read more
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Crops, Features

A short history of durum wheat breeding

As private companies step up cereal breeding investments, 
Andrea Hilderman reviews our public breeding triumphs

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Dr. Ron DePauw has been actively involved in the breeding program at the Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre (SPARC) in Swift Current, Saskatchewan for many decades. Over the years DePauw has led diverse teams that have made extraordinary leaps forward in the agronomic and end-use qualities of durum for Western Canada. Durum team leaders have […] Read more
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Cereals, Crops, Features

Plant growth regulators

They’re not new, but plant growth regulators 
are not yet common on the Canadian Prairies

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Prairie farmers might be seeing ads for plant growth regulators for the first time, but PGR’s are not new. “They’ve been using them in Europe for over 30 years,” Tom Tregunno, Engage Agro’s product manager, told farmers at the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation (IHARF) Crop Management field day in July. Plant growth regulators are […] Read more
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Crops, Features

Avadex back in the game to fight herbicide resistant weeds

When herbicide resistant wild oats crop up on you’re farm, you may be looking backwards in time to find a solution with a different, “new” active ingredient

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The Brady Bunch. ABBA cassettes. Avadex. Things we remember fondly, but don’t really see much anymore. Right? Wrong. Avadex is back in town. In 2004, Gowan, an Arizona-based company, bought the formulation and trademarks from Monsanto. As wild oats with resistance to Group 1 and Group 2 herbicides continue to pop up across the Prairies, […] Read more

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