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12 Tips For Sod Seeding

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Sod seeding, where an annual crop is seeded into an untilled, terminated forage stand, has gained popularity over the past decade. Where farmers once had to experiment on their own, now farmers, extension specialists and researchers have developed some best management practices that help ensure success. Following are 12 tips for success from Ron Heller, […] Read more
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Warm, Dry Weather Means More Grasshoppers

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Summer 2010 could see a substantially increased grasshopper risk across the prairies depending on the climate. John Gavloski, an entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food, and Rural Initiatives, gives this message to farmers for 2010: “Be vigilant because if we have favourable conditions for grasshoppers — like dryer and hotter weather — we may see them […] Read more
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Check Patchy Crop Growth For Wireworms

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Wireworms Wanted! One simple thing you can do to improve wireworm control over the long term is to send a sample of any wireworms you find to Dr. Bob Vernon. Put a few of the wireworms in a small plastic container, like an empty pill vial, and add some soil. Send the sealed container along […] Read more
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Where We’re At With The Midge

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While Western Canada wheat midge surveys show pest populations will likely be lower again in 2010 than they have been in the past couple years, wheat growers do have access to three very good midge-resistant spring wheat varieties this year. The wheat midge survey doesn’t tell the whole story, however, say prairie provincial entomologists. Pest […] Read more
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Use Trap Crops For Pea Weevil

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The pea leaf weevil is not a widespread pest and it’s not a chronic problem such as the flea beetle in canola, for example. However in some fields in southern Alberta and in southwestern Saskatchewan it is a concern for growers,” says Dr. Hector Carcamo, an insect pest management researcher with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada […] Read more
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AGCOMMAND Tracks Machine Operation

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AGCO’s new AGCOMMAND vehicle tracking option is set to expand this year. The system, which was introduced to the public at the Agritechnica show in Germany last November as an option on combines, will expand to tractors and self-propelled application equipment this summer. AGCOMMAND is one of many new systems available this year that relies […] Read more
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Fusarium Is In Alberta. Now What?

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The Alberta Fusarium Graminearum Management Plan describes fusarium graminearum as “the most destructive fungal disease of wheat and barley in Canada.” It also claimed (in 2002) that “Alberta is currently free from any fusarium head blight outbreaks caused by fusarium graminearum” and that the management plan was implemented to “prevent the establishment of fusarium graminearum […] Read more
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One More Reason To Seed Test

Reglone is by no means new. Many farmers have years upon years of experience with the desiccant. So it comes as a bit of a surprise that many samples taken from Reglonetreated fields are coming back with lower-than-expected germination numbers. Ed Thiessen, technical crop manager for Syngenta, says that the product did what it should […] Read more
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Fungicides Boost Yield, Speed Maturity

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Crops that received fungicide ripened faster than those without, which is contrary to what is supposed to happen Brett Casavant farms near Tisdale, Sask., and every year he grapples with the question of whether or not fungicides offer a return on the cost. To try and pin down an anwer, he’s been conducting his own […] Read more
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Four Ways To Use The Herbicide Wall Chart

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Grainews and Dow Agro-Sciences have joined forces to provide you with a comprehensive wall chart to assist in making herbicide selections this year. This easy-to-use chart is included in this issue of Grainews. Simply unfold the chart, hang it in the office, or chemical shed or the place where you make herbicide selection decisions. It […] Read more

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