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Cautious Optimism For Wheat And Barley

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Giving an outlook on the grain markets in this environment is like giving a weather forecast. We can get fairly close a week out but long range it seems like we have about a 10 per cent chance of being right. Of course, that doesn’t stop us from being able to look at the situation, […] Read more
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Unintended Mustard/Lentil Intercrop Surprises

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After sowing large green lentils on 180 acres of oriental mustard stubble this spring, Kevin Hursh was surprised by the amount of volunteer mustard that emerged. He’d expected a few volunteers from last year’s crop, but not the number of plants that established. “That field looked awfully yellow by July,” says Hursh, who farms at […] Read more
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AgTech Studies Lance Fungicide Use On Dry Beans

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White mould is a common disease in dry bean production in Southern Alberta. The Alberta Pulse Growers Commission, along with other stakeholders and researchers, asked the AgTech Centre of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development to provide information on spraying technologies to use when applying foliar fungicides for controlling sclerotinia white mould in dry bean crops. […] Read more
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Ascochyta Scorecard Makes Fungicide Decisions Easier

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Deciding when to spray fungicides can be stressful, especially when it comes to pulse crops such as peas. How do you know you’ll get your money’s worth? One way is to use a simple but effective score sheet developed by pulse research agronomist Ken Lopetinsky. “I think it’s a real helpful tool — it gives […] Read more
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Pulses Need More Than Inoculant

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Western Canadian crop production is all about nitrogen, right? Well, yes and no. Nitrogen is largely the most limiting nutrient for crop production here and is applied in the greatest amounts, yes, but a farmer would be very unwise to under-value a plant’s access to the proper levels of other macro and micronutrients. That, for […] Read more
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Lessons Of The 2010 Season

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hether growing conditions were too wet or too dry, the 2010 season taught Prairie farmers some valuable lessons about crop production and management, according to farmers contacted for the December Farmer Panel. Their advice? Follow proper seeding practices, pay attention to varieties, try to be as timely as possible in the use of crop protection […] Read more
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Strong Oat Prices Could Disappear Quickly

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Despite what has been one of the most challenging years for oat growers in recent memory, the outlook for those farmers who were able to harvest a near-normal oat crop are positive, if not great. Serious seeding delays across much of the western Canadian cropping belt this past spring resulted in a significant loss of […] Read more
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AgExpert Software Makes GST Filing A Snap

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Most people don’t love keeping the books. Even fewer get all that enthusiastic about a software program. But Rose Graydon is the exception. Farm Credit Canada’s AgExpert software has made her life much easier, and she wants others to know about it. Graydon says she likes working with AgExpert mostly because of its GST calculator, […] Read more
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Cabri District Lions Grow Over $50K For Community

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Last spring the Cabri District Lions were looking for a community fundraiser that could not only raise a significant amount of cash but also tap into their passion. They found it in their Quarter Farm Project. In April 2010 the Lions rented a quarter of land from fellow Lion Bruce Carleton and got to the […] Read more

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