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A Good Year For Poor Man’s Corn

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Called poor man’s corn for good reason, sorghum sudangrass is a warm season forage crop that looks like corn, grows like corn, but sure doesn’t cost what corn does. On trials on our farm, we’ve seen both extremes in production. In good years it was taller than our 4255 tractor, and in poor years it […] Read more
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Article Update

In the March 7 issue we featured an article created by our European friends atProfi magazine about their field trial of the new Claas Lexion 770 combine. In the article we told you some of the features on the preproduction model tested may not be available on North American combines. Claas of America asked us […] Read more
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Look Back To Get Ahead Of Fusarium

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Fusarium was a prevalent disease on the Prairies last year, showing up in areas where it’s not normally seen, such as west central Saskatchewan, due to the excessive moisture in those areas. “What’s critical now for farmers is to understand what happened on their farms,” says Mike Grenier, agronomist with the Canadian Wheat Board. “They […] Read more
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Six Steps For Hiring Immigrant Farm Workers

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Hiring temporary foreign workers can be a solution for farms struggling to find good employees, but be prepared to encounter red tape in abundance. Federal and provincial legislation designed to protect temporary foreign workers, their employers and the nation’s border makes for a complex process. For those farmers who have navigated this process, it has […] Read more
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Consider Camelina As A Short-Season Option

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Camelina is relatively new to Western Canada, but this short-season oilseed could prove a wise option for those facing a late seeding season. While camelina does well when seeded early, it can go in in late June and still produce a decent crop. Distributed by Camelina Canada based at Lethbridge, Alta., camelina is very versatile, […] Read more
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Bare Patches And Missing Rows Point To A Pest

Tom, a producer who farms 5,500 acres of canola, barley and wheat south of Carseland, Alta., called me at the end of May last year about his poor wheat stand. “My crop’s coming in well, but I’ve got some bare patches in my field, and a couple of rows are gone,” he said. I headed […] Read more
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Two Seeding Season Strategies

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Two relatively large Saskatchewan farmers reflect different approaches to getting the 2011 crop seeded under potentially wet field conditions this spring. Brad Hanmer who runs an extensive cropping operation with family members at Govan, and Gerrid Gust, who is part of a family farming operation at Davidson — both farms are about an hour north […] Read more
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Three Strategies For Control Of Scentless Chamomile

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WEED MANAGEMENT It’s a nasty weed cursed at with many names — wild daisy, scentless mayweed, false chamomile, Kandahar daisy and barnyard daisy. Scentless chamomile is an invasive weed that has a hard time decided whether it’s a summer annual, winter annual or even a short-lived perennial. The pesky weed has become a more significant […] Read more
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A Five-Step Strategy To Decrease Wild Oats

Wild oat management is an ongoing battle for farmers in Western Canada. According to Hugh Beckie, an Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada research scientist whose field of expertise is herbicide- resistant plants, wild oats is the most important weed from an economic viewpoint on the Prairies after green foxtail. “Not only that,” says Beckie, “increasing […] Read more
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A New Approach To NPK

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The fertilizer is in the ground, but Ken Dechant still has a wait-and-see attitude on whether a relatively new concept in banding anhydrous ammonia and other nutrients will produce all the benefits manufacturers of the system claim. Dechant switched his whole farm near Manning in Alberta’s Peace River region to the Exactrix and TAPPS fertilizer […] Read more

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