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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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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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Should I Sell Some Farmland?

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A reader from Ontario is getting close to retiring and asked me by email how he should think about his farmland. Should he keep it all and rent it out, sell some or sell all of it? He also suggested that many farmers likely face the same question so I told him I would write […] Read more
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Power Up Your Pre-Seed Burn-Off

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A pre-seed application of glyphosate is now standard practice for growers who direct seed. Research has confirmed this practice pays big dividends. Data gathered from Canola Production Centre trials found a spring pre-seed burnoff application resulted in canola yields increasing by 15 per cent. A 2007 study by Sapsford, Holm, Johnson and Cleary in Saskatchewan […] Read more
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Adventures In Safety

The Alberta Farm Safety Program has many resources and tools designed for rural kids. The latest resource made available is a brand new activity book. This is one of the most popular resources, and features Farm Safety Star. New Adventures with Farm Safety Star is 24 pages of hazard hunts, puzzles and colouring posters. Topics […] Read more
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Co-Op Lines Get The Thumbs Down

Savvy Grainews readers will recall a story I did not long ago about high yielding wheat varieties. Who am I kidding! With the amount of paper you receive in the mail, I don’t for a minute think that you read every story in every issue. That said, because I had done a little write up […] Read more
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One of the major goals of applied research trials is to get people thinking. A rough 2009 growing season stirred up more questions than answers at CARA

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The Chinook Applied Research Association (CARA) can’t control the weather. The oldest farmer run, applied research association in Alberta, can evaluate and demonstrate a wide range of crop and forage production and management practices, as it has done for 30 years, but as the 2009 growing season proved, Mother Nature again has the final say. […] Read more
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Don’t Ignore Herbicide Resistant Weeds

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Herbicide resistant weeds in Western Canada This list is compiled from www.weedscience.org.The number in brackets is the herbicide group to which resistance has been confirmed. Wild buckwheat (2) Wild oats (1) (2) (8) (multiple groups) Common hempnettle (2) (4) False cleavers (2) (4) (multiple groups) Kochia (2) Ball mustard (2) Green foxtail (1) (2) (multiple […] Read more

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