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European wheat yields

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Kurt and Hans Wanner farm in northern Switzerland along the German border. They consistently produce eight tonnes of wheat per hectare. The European average is six to eight tonnes per hectare, but some produce 10. The Canadian average for 2011 was 2.9 tonnes per hectare. Why do Europeans consistently out-produce the Canadians? Moisture and growing season In the 1960s, […] Read more
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5 steps to good inoculation

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Pulse crops are still popular, but production declined in 2011. With the exception of soybeans, Statistics Canada reports a decline in overall pulse production for 2011 (an estimated 24.6 per cent for peas and 23.4 per cent for lentils, for example). The main reason for the decline in production was the thousands of acres of southern Saskatchewan […] Read more
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Prairie Sapphire — jewel of a flax

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From the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Morden, Manitoba flax breeding program comes a new high yielding, high-oil content flax variety, expected to have an excellent fit in crop rotations anywhere flax is grown across Western Canada. Prairie Sapphire Prairie Sapphire, developed by plant breeder Scott Duguid, appears to be a significant improvement over existing […] Read more
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Grazing corn

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I’ll say it right up front. The 2011 crop year didn’t start on the right foot. We were in trouble before we even got started. They say a little adversity builds character, but I’ve got enough character. Here’s to a normal growing year in 2012. April 30, 2011 delivered a healthy dump of wet heavy snow. Just what […] Read more
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Reduce nitrogen to speed maturity

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Reducing nitrogen (N) supply to hasten maturity in crops is sometimes called “premature death”. It might more correctly be termed “limiting growth” — the aim being to reduce vegetative growth so the crop can get into its productive stage earlier. “This year we had a wet and cool spring so a lot of producers were […] Read more
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How and why to tissue test your plants

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Many farmers believe that the health and productivity of their soil is one of the largest influences on their farm’s productivity and profitability. Successful farmers know that while many of the properties that make up our soil are static and change very slowly over time (if at all), nutrient availability is one of the largest […] Read more
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The cost of bad timing

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There are many business planning resources out there that will tell you being able to do 12 things well and at high efficiency will always be more profitable than trying to do 36 different things at a lower efficiency. In the context of production agriculture, I think it more than makes sense. Maintaining a clear […] Read more
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Farmers fine-tuning fertility for 2012

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Western Canadian farmers are looking for ways to fine- tune or improve efficiency with fertilizer this coming growing season, according to producers contacted for the February Farmer Panel. Putting more emphasis on some specific nutrients that may be lacking in the soil and also better understanding variable rate fertilizer technology are a couple of approaches […] Read more
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Group 1 active ingredients

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Flipping through the Crop Protection Guide, a farmer gets the impression that there are lots of Group 1 herbicides for controlling grassy weeds in cereal crops. In fact, there were 29 brand names of this type of herbicide listed in the 2011 Alberta Crop Protection Guide (the blue book). Unfortunately, most of these products are […] Read more
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Understand herbicide groups

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In our industry it’s easy for most of us to spout off the names of at least a couple of herbicides and what herbicide group they belong to. However, most of us wouldn’t be able to do a very good job explaining what these herbicide groups mean. Herbicides are placed into different groups based on […] Read more

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