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Photosynthesis Requires Manganese

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Though manganese is the last micronutrient discussed in this five-part series, it is just as important as the others, which were boron, copper, iron and zinc. Crops grown in Western Canada that show high response to manganese application include alfalfa, soybeans, large seed legumes and some small grains. If detected early enough in a crop […] Read more
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To Straight Cut Or To Swath?

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For 15 years or more, Cliff Sime compared swathing with straight cutting… “In those 15 years, only once did the swather beat the straight cut yields,” he says. Traditionally farm-ers in Western Canada have swathed canola before combining it. Agronomists tell us yields and oil content are higher when canola is combined standing. While many […] Read more
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Single-Car Freight Rates Too High

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When a farmer delivers board grains to an elevator, he receives payment for his grain, minus certain deductions. One of these deductions is freight. Freight is charged at the single car rate — the rate a shipper would pay to send a single car to Vancouver. Of course, elevators don’t ship in single car blocks. […] Read more
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Sectional Control Pays Its Way

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When Brett Casavant was having some issues with his liquid fertilizer application set up, he decided to take the entire unit one step further and upgrade to sectional control. “We got the pricing on what we’d need to upgrade, crunched some numbers and were surprised to see that the unit could pay for itself in […] Read more
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Rethink Your Canola N Rates

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After a couple of years of planting hybrid varieties and producing high yields without applying the necessary amounts of nitrogen, producers will be let down by lower yields. Average yields for canola have increased dramatically in a very short time. Five years ago growers harvested 20 or 30 bushels to the acre. Today they routinely […] Read more
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GreenSeeker Proves Worthy For Wheat

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The economics certainly favour the use of an in-crop application for durum, most of the time for spring wheat and some of the time for canola. Sensors that can scan a crop and make an instant judgment on what it needs aren’t new, but this “active optical sensor” technology, now available from several different manufacturers, […] Read more
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5 Tips When Using GreenSeeker To Fine-Tune N Rates

1. N reduction not a given. If you plan to use GreenSeeker or other similar technology, don’t count on always reducing N rates, especially at seeding. There are risks associated with putting less N at seeding, says Chris Holzapfel, researcher with the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation. There’s the risk of not putting on enough […] Read more
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You Can’t Beat The Band

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To get the biggest bang for the buck out of nitrogen (N), band it in the soil as close to when the crop is going to need it as possible. That boils down to soil banding at time of spring seeding. That is the general, overriding recommendation from two leading soil fertility specialists in Western […] Read more
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A Pitch For Liquid Fertilizer

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Why should farmers make the switch to liquid fertilizer? One farmer at a workshop in Westlock, Alta., remarked: “Anhydrous is still the cheapest source of nitrogen, and they deliver it to my field.” Why should he change his practices? Growers got answers to this question and many more at a workshop hosted by Little Anchor […] Read more
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What Fertilizer Form Is Best?

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In his Editor’s Blog of January 6, 2010, Jay Whetter posted the following few excerpts from a workshop on liquid fertilizer held in Westlock, Alta., on November 24, 2009. These points came from a first draft of my article “A pitch for liquid fertilizer” in this issue: With dry fertilizer it is difficult to get […] Read more

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