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Are Crop Enhancement Products Worth The Cost?

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At least some western Canadian farmers are viewing an ever-increasing buffet of micronutrient blends, foliar sprays and other soil and plant enhancement products with some caution, if not skepticism. Several producers contacted at random for thoughts on new crop production aids for this issue of Farmer Panel say either they haven’t tried them, or are […] Read more
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Contans Cleans Up Sclerotinia

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Sclerotinia, that nasty fungus that can cause as much as 50 per cent yield loss in a tough year, poses a particular problem for many farmers. Not only is it found across the Prairies, several common crops are susceptible making crop rotations nearly useless for control. Capable of knocking back canola, dry bean, lentil, soybean, […] Read more
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Upgrade Your Lentils: A Worksheet

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Last year was noted for its moisture, and our crops sure look like it. Our last field of red lentils was planted in early June, which was later than it should have been seeded. I don’t know if you noticed it, but it just kept raining and we couldn’t seem to get them in the […] Read more
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Striped Field’s Cause Was In The Tank

Last June, Mike, an excellent farmer who farms 7,000 acres of wheat, canola, barley, peas and flax in southeastern Saskatchewan, called me about his sparsely populated, unhealthy and dying stands of canola. He thought the particular herbicide-tolerant variety he planted that spring had no vigour; all of his other canola fields were doing well. He […] Read more
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Crop Advisor’s Casebook – for Feb. 14, 2011

A farmer called me early last June concerned about the patchy growth of his canola plants in one of his fields. Upon returning from a 10-day trip, Steve, who farms 2,000 acres in the Spirit River, Alta. area, noticed his canola plants weren’t looking as good as they should have been. He said some of […] Read more
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Buy A Hedge Against The Weather

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We can’t control the weather, and we’re still only marginally accurate at predicting it more than three days out. A new risk management tool, eWeatherRisk, can’t change that, however the hedging tool allows you to buy some protection against adverse conditions. Brian O’Hearne, president of eWeatherRisk, says these weather risk contracts are financial instruments that […] Read more
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Is Tile Drainage Cost Effective?

ANSWER: Simon Knutson, geo-coach with Agri-Trend Geo Solutions, has been fielding a lot of calls about drainage. Here’s what he has to say: We come across a huge number of acres that have small glacial depressions that are often too wet in spring to farm through or that collect rainfall during the growing season and […] Read more
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Crop Selection For Wet Soils

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It could be time to consider a shift in your crop rotations to water-loving and water-using crops. Manitoba farmers in the Red River Valley clued into this some time ago. And it’s no wonder — excess moisture has become the norm in that area. But as the 2011 seeding season looms large, farmers in a […] Read more
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Extract More Value From Ergot-Infested Grain

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For many farmers who struggled with excess moisture to get their crops in and off last year, the biggest hurdle of the 2010 crop year may still be in front of them — trying to market grain with high levels of ergot. Ergot is a fungal parasite which infects grasses and cereal grains. Unlike other […] Read more
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Is that pesticide still good?

Farmers often pre-buy pesticides and bulk buying is on the rise. The reasons for doing so makes sense — some want put-off taxes by purchasing before their year-end; others purchase early to take advantage of sales and promotions from chem companies. There can also be money saved by buying pallets, large totes or even bulk […] Read more

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