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The soybean tentiform leafminer is blamed for these blotchy leaf mines on plants in a soybean field.
Features, Soybeans

Native insect acquires taste for soy

What's now called the soybean tentiform leafminer is moving north

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A tiny North American moth species that has been seen in Canada has been developing a new appetite for soybean plants on the U.S. Plains. The species, Macrosaccus morrisella — now officially named the soybean tentiform leafminer — was detected feeding on soybean crops in eastern Minnesota in 2021 and has since taken its newfound […] Read more
Family members’ unspoken expectations can turn out to be “the silent killer” of a family farm, FCC’s Tim Lang says.
Features

Plan now for a farm’s future

FCC business advisor Tim Lang offers advice on what families need to consider in transition planning

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With Canada’s farm population aging, it stands to reason transition planning would be a high priority for farmers in this country. But that doesn’t appear to be the case. Despite 60 per cent of Canadian farmers being age 55 or older, fewer than one in 10 have a written transition plan, according to Farm Management […] Read more
a 60-foot Pillar disc drill to seed hard red spring wheat
Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Features

Earlier-than-early seeding

These farmers use soil temperature, rather than the calendar, to time seeding wheat

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Not long ago, brothers Matthew and Farley Gould, who farm in east-central Alberta, had no idea of the resiliency of wheat seedlings against adverse growing conditions. But over the past three growing seasons they’ve seeded part of their hard red spring wheat crop early. How early? Soil temperatures have barely thawed, and germinated seedlings have […] Read more
Trying multiple varieties will better help Prairie growers understand what does -- and doesn't -- work on their fields, Horst Bohner says
Features, Soybeans

Planting just one soybean variety is a ‘mistake’

Growers should try at least three, an Ontario soy expert says

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Horst Bohner is convinced — completely so — that farmers should plant more than one variety of soybeans. If they don’t, they are making a “mistake,” he says. “As a basic starting point, I think every grower should seed at least three varieties. Every year. As a minimum. Hopefully more than that,” says Bohner, the […] Read more
Joey Vanneste of the CGC shows farmers at a Swift Current, Sask. seminar two types of sieves used in the official grain grading process.
Crops, Features

Grain grading tools not just at the elevator

Learn how to assess what you have in the bin

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Grain grading isn’t strictly the realm of elevator operators and private consultants. The information you need to survey your own grain’s quality — short of an official grade — is publicly available, according to recent seminars hosted by Saskatchewan producer groups. Saskatchewan wheat, barley, canola and flax associations hosted officials from the Canadian Grain Commission […] Read more
Concentrating 13 growing seasons into five years gets the latest traits and technologies into growers’ hands.
Features, Soybeans

Breeding picks up its pace

Thirteen years of testing, selecting and production now done in five

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The pace of plant breeding has quickened by leaps and bounds, from selective breeding to the use of transgenics. Yet the process of breeding seeds with desired traits, rechecking for trait and yield performance and increasing those numbers for commercial availability takes more than 10 years. Or does it? With the use of continuous nursery […] Read more
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Features, Soybeans

Window now wider, but ideal timing to plant soy still same

Risks also remain if pushing luck with planting depth and rates

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Glacier FarmMedia — Provincial pulse and soybean specialist Dennis Lange says the window for planting soybeans in Manitoba is getting wider. “In the past, one of our big concerns was planting soybeans too early,” he says. “That was our initial discussion a few years ago.” Soybeans are susceptible to frost, and historically, the risk of […] Read more
Sticky yellow traps like this one were used to conduct flea beetle counts and were replaced each week as part of the study.
Canola, Features

Seeding rate may help manage flea beetle populations

A recent study investigated the effect of plant density on flea beetle populations in canola crops

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Flea beetles have become Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to canola. Yield losses of 10 per cent are common and it’s estimated the troublesome pest costs growers in North America more than $300 million annually. Results of a study recently conducted in Western Canada could help growers better manage flea beetle populations in […] Read more
Seed treated with Vibrance Total, a combination of five different fungicide groups being brought to market for the 2024 season.
Features, Pulses

The year in pulse crop inputs

A quick look at new actives, new combinations and expanded labels

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Following up on last issue’s roundup of product launches and label expansions in the cereal crop input market, here we’ve put together a quick list of new and/or improved pulse crop inputs that were announced in our earshot during the past year, including several due out for the coming growing season. Again, if we’ve inadvertently […] Read more
Rebate roundup 2024
Crops, Features

Rebate roundup 2024

Cash-back rebates and rewards programs provide growers with much-needed certainty

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Canada’s crop input market faces multiple challenges and growers will look to get the most bang for their buck when purchasing fertilizer, seed and pesticides for 2024. Grainews aims to make that process a little easier with its annual rebate roundup feature that examines some of the cash-back rebates and other reward programs available to […] Read more

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