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Five Steps To Optimum Pea And Lentil Seeding

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Pea and lentil acres make up a critical portion of our acres each year. For some, seeding and production management of pulses is old hat, but for many, there’s much to learn about pulse production. While conditions and specifics will vary slightly depending on where you farm in Western Canada, there are some rules of […] Read more
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Breaking The Mould — Disease Management In 2011

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Key factors in integrated pest management are crop rotation, variety, seed quality/treatment, agronomics, seedling health, crop scouting, and cultural/chemical controls. Unfortunately, even when we do everything right, plant disease can still rear its ugly head. That is because weather conditions may be highly favourable for fungal growth/sporulation, infection, and spread. According to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s final […] Read more
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Three Steps To Better On-Farm Seed Treating

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With every job on the farm we start with the end goal in mind. In crop production we want the seeds that we plant to achieve their greatest potential as a high quality, high yielding crop. Seed that has an effective seed treatment applied with the proper equipment has a greater chance of reaching that […] Read more
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Three Tips For Effective Glyphosate Applications

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Every year it seems there is an epic struggle to decide which glyphosate product to purchase. Luckily, glyphosate is not a very complicated product, and with the high uniform quality of today’s products it is not too difficult to have a high success rate if used in the proper solution within good application parameters. GLYPHOSATE […] Read more
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Winter Wheat Acres Dwindling

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CROP SELECTION Although winter wheat plantings took a small spike upwards over last year, overall acres continue to decline across the prairies, especially in Manitoba. Statistics Canada reports a total of 695,000 acres were seeded in the fall of 2010, which still falls far short of the 1.21 million acres planted in 2008. Winter wheat […] Read more
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Winter Wheat And Crop Insurance Deadlines

In some provinces seeding winter wheat after the seeding deadline doesn’t necessarily mean that the crop isn’t insured, but it does vary by province, so farmers should always check with their local insurers to be sure. Following are the crop insurance rules for winter wheat for the Prairie Provinces: SASKATCHEWAN Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation confirmed […] Read more
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Wide Rows Maintain Yield, Decrease Costs

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Ever since no-till prod uction methods started gaining popularity, growers have been stretching seed row spacing because of the advantages offered by wider widths. Today, farmers are seeding at nearly double the old seven-inch standard compared to a couple of decades ago. But are they risking reduced yields due to a low level of seedbed […] Read more
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A Wide Row Spacing Checklist

For farmers ready to try a 14-inch row spacing when seeding cereal crops, Guy Lafond, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, has a checklist for them in order to take advantage of the benefits it offers: 1) Ensure adequate plant populations per square metre are maintained. Yields will fall off with lower numbers. […] Read more
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A List Of Spring Burn-Off Options

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Farmers know it and the research shows it — timely removal of competing weeds has a profound effect on crop competitiveness and yield potential. We’ve all likely experienced when spring burn-off is less than acceptable, either because of uncooperative weather or poor control that leaves more advanced weeds to choke out the crop. To add […] 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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