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Re-Think Your Cereal Seeding Rates – for Mar. 14, 2011

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When preparing crop plans with farmers and discussing planned cereal seeding rates, they usually talk in bushels per acre. But using the same rule-of-thumb bushels per acre can mean very different seeding rates year over year. Instead, we start by establishing a target plant stand per square foot for each crop type and perhaps even […] Read more
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Three Reasons To Run On-Farm Field Trials

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Why do we do things the way we do them? The answer often seems to be “Because we have always done it that way.” The same question can and should be asked about many of our current production practices. When I ask farmers why they do things the way they do I often get the […] Read more
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Which Should I Aim For — Max Yield Or High Protein?

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As wheat yields go up, protein levels tend to go down. That’s a well-known fact, but is there is anything you can do to have both? The answer is a qualified yes, but whether farmers can “push” protein content remains a subject of much debate. The only option for achieving higher protein and milling quality […] Read more
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ProTec Seed Coating Saves A Step At Seeding

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With spring on the way (we hope), many of you are gearing up in earnest for seeding. Unlike other crops, pulses require an extra step, inoculating, before being put in the ground. Inoculating can be time-consuming, messy and dusty, and hauling an extra tank around at seeding can be cumbersome. To add to the time […] Read more
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New Products Target Fusarium, Wireworms

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Fusarium head blight (FHB) isn’t the only crop disease out there, but it is an increasingly serious one, three crop protection companies are targeting in 2011 with new foliar and seed-applied products. Bayer Crop Science, Syngenta Canada and BASF Canada all have introduced products for the coming year, that help suppress or reduce the impact […] Read more
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How Sober Is Your Canola?

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The same technology and equipment used to nab drunk drivers may soon be able to tell you the vigour potential of your canola seed. New tools for measuring seed vigour in canola have been developed at Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada’s (AAFC) Brandon Research Centre. “We have developed several new methods of testing the seed […] Read more
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The Secret To Farm Profits

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On a typical grain farm, management , l ike labour and cash, is a limited resource. There is only so much time and energy to devote to running the business, no matter how passionate you are about farming. So where does management get the greatest bang for its buck? Where should managers focus their efforts […] Read more
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New Short Line Hits The Rail

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Ken Eshpeter and 150 of his farming friends and colleagues are now in the railway business. They still farm in central Alberta — seed, harvest and market a wide range of crops — but now they’ve added a final link in the process. They created a company and bought the rail line near their communities […] Read more
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Composite Train Grading

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Farmers in central Alberta, working together with the benefit of new software, are now able to build unit trains of producer cars, with the same quality of grain sourced from different farms. Composite train grading is a new feature available to these Alberta producers using the shortline Battle River Railway that runs over an 80 […] Read more

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