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Think Long-Term With Variety Selection

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It’s never a good idea to try something as important as a new variety on a large-scale right off the hop, but it’s also not a great idea to seed one variety from one end of the farm to the other. There are good reasons, however, to seed two to three varieties of each crop […] Read more
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ESN One Option For Canola N Management

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Selecting the right nitrogen type, amount, placement and timing is a challenging part of crop planning each spring. When fertilizer prices are a bit lower, as they are now, it may be tempting to just up the numbers a bit without actually knowing what your fields need to maximize crop production. By putting some thought […] Read more
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Watch Cool, Dry Soil For Nutrient Deficiencies

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Soils that have normally adequate P and K availability may show P and K deficiencies in a cooler and drier than normal spring Weather conditions, especially temperature and moisture, greatly affect nutrient availability and movement in soil. This is especially true for nutrients such as phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) that move relatively slowly in […] Read more
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Accidental Miss Proves Burnoff Benefit

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One of the first and foremost factors for successful zero tilling has nothing to do with drill or opener selection. It has to do with management. Most direct seeding failures I have ever seen or experienced have to do with weed control — specifically, the pre-seed burnoff herbicide application. Producers often skip this operation, thinking […] Read more
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Tips For The Perfect Seedbed – for Mar. 8, 2010

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Seed shallow, don’t pack too much, limit seed-placed fertilizer, and find an opener and row spacing that works for your conditions No-till, put simply, is a clear and persistent focus on seeding — with a single-pass — into undisturbed soil. No till and direct seeding have dramatically changed the way we farm our Prairie landscape. […] Read more
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Are Strippers The Missing Piece?

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Most proud and passionate direct-seeders tend to centre on the features of their preferred seeding operation. This discussion will focus primarily on the oft-forgotten harvest phase. Twelve years as a direct-seeding (DS) extension agent with Reduced Tillage Linkages in Alberta finds me well-adjusted to all the notill bad mouthing that goes on over soil warming […] Read more
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Pesticide Update For 2010

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UAP NEW FORMULATION NEW BRANDS LABEL CHANGES S Product name Attain XC Barricade DB 6654 PP-1254 PP-31155 PP-39-147 PP-E32-179 Prestige XC Puma Advance Stellar Thumper Total Tundra Product name Cordon Echo Legend NextStep Pace Polaris Sierra Vigil Product name Allegro 500F Company Dow AgroSciences DuPont DuPont Dow AgroSciences Bayer CropScience Dow AgroSciences Bayer CropScience Bayer […] Read more
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Get To Know The Chemical Names

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More herbicide choices give farmers more options for controlling weeds, but now with many brand names for the same active ingredient, the landscape is more confusing, says a University of Saskatchewan crop protection specialist. Plenty of new product names are entering the marketplace, Ken Sapsford says. These aren’t necessarily new chemistries with new modes of […] Read more
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92 Minor Use Registrations

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—Ken Sapsford. “If you have an issue, the system works very well.” If you have specific weed or insect problems in crops that aren’t covered by herbicide or insecticide registration, you should bring the issue forward to your provincial commodity group, says Ken Sapsford, a weed specialist from the University Saskatchewan (U of S). The […] Read more
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Argentine Wheat On The Downfall

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Argentina has been one of the main grain producers of the world, and its wheat has been exported to many destinations in various continents. However, the 2009-10 wheat campaign ended in January with a drop of about 15 per cent compared to last year. Also, the cultivated surface for wheat was the lowest in a […] Read more

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