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11 Tips For Max Pulse Returns

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Barry Rapp, agronomy and seed manager with Crop Production Services (CPS), works with pea, lentil and chickpea growers in the Regina area. He provided these 11 “management practices to maximize returns” at the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers meeting at Crop Week in Saskatoon in January. 1. Use pre-harvest glyphosate the fall before planting pulses. This provides […] Read more
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No Credits Yet For Prairie Trees

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One of the most effective ways of reducing greenhouse gasses is to plant trees. Through photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. It is for this reason forests are often referred to as the lungs of the world. As well, trees sequester carbon both in the wood and in the soil. As a […] Read more
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Avail: Good Theory, No Results

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— R. JAY GOOS “My concern with the product is that the rate is too small to have a meaningful effect.” There’s a very important reason plot and field-scale trails are done: not all lab results transfer to the field. Such is the case, it would seem, with Simplot’s Avail product. Avail, a polymer, is […] Read more
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Zinc Treatments Good For Corn, Beans

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Deficiency often occurs in eroded areas. These can be areas of environmental erosion — wind or water — or man-made factors that reduce topsoil such as leveling and heavy irrigation. Zinc is one of the top five micronutrients for crop production in Western Canada. Luckily, most cereal and oilseed type crops are not extremely susceptible […] Read more
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Rules To Grow Midge-Tolerant Wheat

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— TODD HYRA “We estimate use of a resistant variety will prevent $36 per acre of damage.” Midge tolerance is probably the most exciting technology advancement in wheat in the past 50 years,” says Todd Hyra, the western Canadian business manager for SeCan. Hyra is part of the Midge Tolerant Wheat Stewardship team, a group […] Read more
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Mastin Method Lowers Seed Cost

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Bob Mastin is banking his seed business on volume. The west-central Alberta seed grower doesn’t have distribution rights to a lot of varieties, but he believes he has good ones. And by doing all he can to reduce costs, he’s hoping more producers will buy more certified seed for high yielding oats and barley varieties […] Read more
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U. K. Farm Lays Plow To Rest

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There’s a lot to be said for traditional plow and power harrow/seeder based cultivations systems. It remains an almost weather-proof process and, as a result of the plow, gives perhaps the cleanest seedbeds possible since the U. K. banning of stubble burning. Yet it’s also a system that can carry high time and cost penalties […] Read more
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A University of Manitoba study found that Red Berry maintains its quality in storage better than Robin and certainly better than Impact

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Regardless of how great red lentils look going into the bin, moisture migration problems will show up during processing and cooking. What’s more, the variety you grow may stack the deck against you. Stefan Cenkowski, a professor with the University of Manitoba’s biosystems engineering department, presented his findings on post-harvest quality management of red lentils […] Read more
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Soybeans In Southern Alberta

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Over the past four years we have been raising soybeans on our farm in Tilley, Alta. This article chronicles our experiences along the way and where we see the crop going for our area in the future. In 2006, we started experimenting with soybeans to see if they would work in our climate. Our farm […] Read more

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