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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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Five Considerations For Choosing A Canola Variety

Every year, one of the most common questions for agronomists from farmers is, “What’s the best canola variety?” My usual short answer is, “There is no best canola variety for everyone.” The best variety for you may be different from that of your neighbour, and is most certainly different from another farmer in a different […] Read more
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Old Massey Stands The Test Of Time

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When former grain grower Norm Biggar of Oakville, Ont., bought his 1135 Massey-Ferguson tractor new in 1975 he had other tractors on the farm, but most of them have been replaced several times over the years. The 1135, however, is still there, even though he is no longer actively farming. “When we first got it, […] Read more
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The Case Of The Pink-Headed Wheat

CROP PRODUCTION Sometimes the diagnosis of a problem in the field is complicated and lengthy, and sometimes — as in this case — it takes just a glance. Jason, who farms 5,000 acres of wheat, canola, oats and barley west of Swan River, Man., called me at the beginning of August last year. He said […] Read more
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Barley Was Hungry For More N

Mid-May last year, I got a call from a farmer who had healthy green fields of barley one week, and yellowing stands of stunted, dying plants the next. I had scouted the fields only the week before — and everything looked fine. Edward, who farms 14,000 acres of wheat, canola, barley and yellow peas east […] Read more
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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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