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New cereal varieties for 2022
Cereals, Crops, Features

New cereal varieties for 2022

Twenty-one new options for farmers in Western Canada

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There are lots of new choices for cereal growers in Western Canada this winter. Twenty-one wheat, barley and oat varieties are coming to market for next year, with many of them featuring improved resistance to fusarium and rust diseases. Please note, the following list includes only brand new releases for 2022. Alliance Seed Oats: CDC […] Read more
New canola varieties for 2022
Canola, Crops, Features

New canola varieties for 2022

Fifteen brand new canola hybrids hit the market

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Western Canadian producers have 15 new canola hybrids to choose from when they start seeding next year. Six of them include the TruFlex trait, which allows farmers to get more time in the sprayer by widening the window for applying glyphosate. Please note, this list only includes brand new canola offerings for 2022. BASF InVigor […] Read more
A lentil field under irrigation had a portion of the crop located on a slight hilltop quickly yellow off, mature and slowly die off, while other parts of the field remained green and healthy.
Crops, Features, Lentils

Crop advisor casebook: Lentil trouble in Alberta

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the November 2, 2021 issue of Grainews

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In July 2020, I was doing some routine scouting for Greg, who farms seed canola, wheat, lentils, seed alfalfa, flax, dry beans and corn in the Grassy Lake area. I noticed a lentil field under irrigation had a portion of the crop located on a slight hilltop quickly yellow off, mature and slowly die off, […] Read more
Three common soil compaction mistakes
Crops, Features

Three common soil compaction mistakes

Avoid these missteps to keep compaction from getting worse

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With the advent of mechanized agriculture, farms became a great deal more productive than they were in times past. However, the large machines that ply farmers’ fields today can be hard on the soil and cause issues with compaction. Our cover story of this issue of Grainews provides some suggestions for preventing or reducing soil […] Read more
Some of the NextGen Drainage Solutions equipment installing drainage pipe. Owen Orsak says after installing tile drainage on a 260-acre field, he can now seed and harvest 260 acres.
Crops, Features

A dry year is a good time to talk drainage

Tile drainage systems need to be properly planned, but farmers say they are well worth the effort

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Western Canadian farmers like their tile drainage projects. They are not particularly cheap improvements. Costs vary widely depending on size and complexity of the project but, on average, figure on about $1,000 per acre to get pipe in the ground. But the benefits, according to this October’s farmer panel members, are many: A tile drainage […] Read more
Colten Bamford in a stringer tractor laying tile during a project on a farm near Pilot Mound, Man., in September 2020.
Crops, Features

The value and benefits of tile drainage

Here’s how this practice can make your farm more profitable

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Installing drainage tile on farmland comes with a hefty price tag, costing anywhere from $900 an acre up to $1,400 an acre or more by some estimates. Like for any large capital expense, producers need to weigh the decision carefully before moving ahead with this kind of project. Ultimately it comes down to dollars and […] Read more
Horsch has partnered with Trimble to develop autonomous machines, like this concept machine Horsch revealed earlier this year.
Features, Machinery

Horsch looks to autonomy

Horsch and Trimble partner to develop next-generation machines

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[UPDATED: Oct. 26, 2021] It seems virtually every ag machinery brand is currently taking a serious look at building autonomous technology into their equipment. Even brands you might not have expected such development from. For example, Regina-based SeedMaster had been known only as a seeding implement manufacturer until it unveiled DOT, an autonomous seeding robot. […] Read more
Lynne Schoenau beside a front-end loader depositing a bucket full of topsoil taken from a slough onto a Rebuilding Productivity in Eroded Knolls research plot in May 2020.
Crops, Features

Move soil to where it’s needed most

Landscape restoration can restore productivity on eroded knolls and hilltops

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You could say it’s an old idea that’s new again. The idea is taking topsoil from where it has accumulated in low areas and putting it on badly eroded knolls or hilltops to increase the productivity of a field. University of Manitoba soil scientist David Lobb maintains that’s something farmers in hilly regions of China […] Read more
No-till or zero-till systems are generally viewed as the best prevention against tillage, wind and water erosion.
Crops, Features

How to protect and save your topsoil

Erosion can be a problem even in zero-till fields. Here are some strategies to stop soil loss

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Tillage and not wind or water is the biggest source of soil loss on farmers’ fields. David Lobb, a soil scientist at the University of Manitoba, says for decades people mistakenly thought the eroded knolls or hilltops in fields were caused mostly by wind. “What causes the severe soil loss on hilltops is tillage erosion, […] Read more
This photo shows the affected area of discoloured plants fading into an unaffected area with healthy plants.
Canola, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Why the discoloured canola plants in this Sask. field?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the October 12, 2021 issue of Grainews

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In June 2020, I was doing a routine herbicide efficacy assessment for Rick, who farms 13,000 acres of durum, spring wheat, canola, barley, lentils, peas and flax near Kyle, Sask. While walking a 320-acre canola field, I noticed some severe discolouration of the canola plants. The affected plants were pale green to yellow in colour […] Read more

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