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Watch For Notches On Pea Leaves

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The pea weevil is a tiny little thing that gnaws away at pea leaves, causing seemingly negligible damage. It’s what you can’t see that could end up costing you your pea crop this year and the residual nitrogen you were counting on for next year. The adult weevil, after feasting on leaves, lays her eggs […] Read more
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Are You In A Hopper Hotspot?

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HANDY GRASSHOPPER BOOKLET Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Saskatchewan Pulse Growers have a handy new booklet called “Grasshopper identification and control methods.” Dan Johnson at the research centre in Lethbridge developed the booklet with funding support from Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. Grainews has a PDF version of the book we can email to you. Saskatchewan Pulse […] Read more
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Weevil Hits Early Canola Hardest

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Alberta Agriculture suggests that farmers seed a border of earlier blooming canola around the perimeter of the field as a trap crop. Cabbage seedpod weevil is a relatively new pest on the Prairies. Though it was introduced to North America from Europe over 70 years ago, it wasn’t seen in significant numbers in Alberta until […] Read more
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Aphids Suck Peas, Flax, Soy…

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THE AMAZING APHID Aphids are tiny, soft-bodied sucking insects that feed on several host crops, such as pea, potato, flax, canola and soybean. Some species are carried north by wind, and usually begin appearing in June or early July. The pea aphid and potato aphid have been known to overwinter in the Prairies. If fields […] Read more
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OnStar For Farm Machinery

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Hard on the heels of global positioning, auto-steer and variable rate application technology comes the next step in precision farming: telemetries. Simply put, telemetry enables a farm manager to remotely monitor and manage powered agricultural equipment. Over the next couple of years, all the major agricultural equipment manufactures as well as a host of after […] Read more
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SmartSteer From Raven

Raven SmartSteer automatic steering system has a direct mechanical connection to your steering wheel to eliminate slippage. You clamp a gear drive to the steering column, and Smart Steer clamps on to the gear. You can buy gear kits separately, so you can equip more than one tractor and move SmartSteer quickly from tractor to […] Read more
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Tips To Work Around Obstacles

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Chasing down every last acre in a field to get it seeded may not make the best economic sense, according to a study conducted by the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) in Humboldt, Sask. Jockeying around rocks, potholes, sloughs, creeks, roads, and oil, gas and power installations just to get that odd sized piece of […] Read more
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UC5 Controls Boom Height

Norac’s new UC5 automatic spray height control system uses ultrasonic sensors to keep your boom at the desired height. You mount three or five sensors along the boom — the number depending on boom length or the variability of your terrain. The non-contact sensors monitor ground surface or crop height, depending on your preference and […] Read more
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Tips For New Soybean Growers

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Manitoba soybean growers faced cool and wet weather and aphid infestations in 2008. Yet Manitoba Agriculture says overall soybean yields in the province averaged an estimated 38 bushels per acre in 2008, compared to the long-term average of 30 to 32 bushels per acre. To help you get the best possible yield this year, here […] Read more
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Let Oats Control Weeds

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“Research shows if you have three wild oat plants per square foot and seed at about 50 pounds of seed per acre, you can expect a 22 per cent yield loss. If you increase the seeding rate to 120 pounds of seed per acre, your yield loss will be reduced to 11 per cent.” —STEVE […] Read more

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