Features & Production Tips

G3 Canada today operates 24 elevators and grain terminals across Canada. Its majority owner, G3 Global Holdings, also owns G3's export terminal at Vancouver in partnership with Western Stevedoring Co.

What’s happening with your shares in G3?

How your stake in the equity trust set up for Prairie farmers sits today

By Sean Pratt June 11, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — An owner of G3 Canada it may be, but Farmers Equity Trust won’t be a suitor for Bunge’s separate ownership stake in G3, if Ottawa decides to require a sale as part of its review of Bunge’s proposed takeover of Viterra. “The trust has no cash resources to invest that way, and […] Read more

According to Hector Carcamo of AAFC, low populations of lygus bugs can actually benefit canola crops.

Canola, Features

When a pest isn’t a pest

Finding flea beetles and lygus bugs in canola fields doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a problem. Sometimes lygus bugs can even benefit the crop

By Mark Halsall June 4, 2024

Insect pests aren’t always true pests. Hard as it may be for farmers to imagine, sometimes the insects do more good than harm. That was a key message from an April online seminar on insect control in canola organized by the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. The three panelists — Alejandro […] Read more

Features, Forages

Night spraying for forage pest can spare pollinators

Spraying after sundown is also more effective in controlling lesser clover leaf weevil

By Becky Zimmer June 3, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Prairie forage growers who plan to spray for a particular problem pest, but want to avoid collateral damage to more beneficial insects, may get their best and cleanest shot in the dark. Forage and seed producers heard about the benefits of night spraying for red clover crops during the Saskatchewan Forage Seed […] Read more

Features, Pulses

Kochia tumbling into Prairie pulse crops

Scouting — and testing for herbicide resistance — will be important this spring

By Becky Zimmer May 31, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Concerns about the spread of kochia are growing for Saskatchewan’s pulse producers. Michael Brown, agronomy manager for Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, and Martin Carr, agronomy manager for WinField United, have seen the pesky tumbleweed spread throughout Saskatchewan, Alberta and the United States. The weed is resistant to some herbicides, among them Groups 4, […] Read more

Treating and not treating alternating strips of pasture with insecticides has been found to keep grasshoppers in check — while helping to maintain populations of the pest’s natural predators.

Crops, Features

Reduced-area pest spraying can still hit moving targets

The RAAT method can cut insecticide use in half and still kill most grasshoppers on pasture

By Robert Arnason May 30, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Grasshoppers, as their name suggests, hop from place to place in grassy fields. Taking advantage of that natural behaviour, University of Wyoming scientists have devised a way to control grasshoppers on pastures with smaller volumes of pesticides. The method is called Reduced Agent and Area Treatments (RAAT), in which farmers apply an […] Read more

Joseph McKee preps seeding equipment at Stirling, southeast of Lethbridge.

Crops, Features

Feeding dry fields

Prairie farmers find more than one way to optimize fertilizer efficiency, whether in dry growing seasons or in any growing season

By Lee Hart May 29, 2024

Farmers and crop consultants in Western Canada have slightly different approaches to manage weather-related fertilizer application risks. With variable moisture, do you apply the full amount at seeding and hope for rain — or find another way? Most producers contacted by Grainews opt for some version of split fertilizer application when facing dry growing conditions […] Read more

University of Alberta researcher Ehsan Feizollahi helped test the use of cold plasma to decontaminate grains.

Cereals, Crops, Features

Plasma shows promise against fusarium-formed toxins

The fourth state of matter could someday be put to work at a malt house or feedlot near you

By Alexis Kienlen May 27, 2024

Researchers at the University of Alberta are harnessing a high-tech concept to decontaminate grain. They’re using cold plasma, which is created by electrical discharge in a low-pressure gas. One of the most common uses is in fluorescent lighting, which creates light with little heat. Cold plasma is the fourth state of matter, alongside solid, liquid […] Read more

How should growers and agronomists interpret the gigabytes, even terabytes, of ag data available?

Equipment, Features

How to deal with the farm data deluge

The growers have all the data, but do they necessarily use it?

By Ralph Pearce May 22, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — The launch of the first GPS yield monitors altered the world of on-farm data collection. That was followed by variable-rate technology, precision planting and aerial/satellite imaging. Most growers have now been accumulating data for 20 years or longer — and many have resolved to keep that data in the hopes of finding […] Read more

Red-morph English grain aphids, seen here feeding on wheat, are a common cereal pest on the Prairies.

Cereals, Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Features

Keeping aphids in check, online and off

Improvements could come for a smartphone app targeting the cereal pest, but you can also take steps to help the pest’s natural predators

By Mark Halsall May 20, 2024

Cereal Aphid Manager is a useful smartphone app for farmers looking to control one of the main pests in wheat, barley, oat and rye crops in the Prairies. The tool’s scientific developer, Tyler Wist, believes it’s time to hit refresh on the mobile app first released six years ago. Cereal Aphid Manager helps farmers and […] Read more

Crops, Features, Forages

Shop smart when selecting seed for salt tolerance

Soil tests are recommended before deciding how best to manage salinity

By Jeff Melchior May 15, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — Producers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba are asking plenty of questions about how to manage salinity in their soil. Jeff Schoenau, a soil science professor with the University of Saskatchewan, is among those fielding questions, although he says the amount of visible salinity in his province is “normal” for April. “I think probably […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Good weather pushes Alberta harvest along

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