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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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Two Options For Producer Car Loading Sites

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Let’s say you’re farming 6,000 acres and producing 4,000 tonnes of grain that are typically going into the concrete elevators located some 50 miles away. You’ve heard of trucking premiums being offered to some of the folks down south but whenever you’ve brought it up with the elevator manager, you’ve been told they’re not available […] 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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How To Tackle Pasmo On Flax Crops

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Flax isn’t a high acreage crop, however it’s a relatively common oilseed grown in rotation in certain areas, such as Manitoba and southeast Saskatchewan. Flax has been seen as an alternative to canola to diversify oilseed rotations as it is often thought of as a less intensively managed crop. There is one common complaint among […] Read more
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Put A Sock On It

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A few of you reading this may be old enough to remember when most seed came in burlap sacks. Farmers had to lift them by hand and manually pour the grain into a drill, which then dropped those kernels two or three feet into the soft ground to be covered over. That made for some […] Read more
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Keep Track Of Field Information

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FIELD1 FIELD2 FIELD3 FIELD4 FIELD5 FIELD6 FIELD7 FIELD8 FIELD9 FIELD10 FIELD11 FIELD12 FIELD13 FIELD14 FIELD15 FIELD40 LAND CODE TOTALS FIELD NAME SEC TWSP RNG MER RM Owner Tenant SEEDED ACRES 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 CROP & VARIETY 0 0 0 0 0 […] Read more

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