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Atlantic Canada OYF nominees, Justin and Laura Rogers with their children Luke, eight, and Mary, five.
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Canada’s OYF 2019: Atlantic Canada nominees

Seventh generation PEI farm continues to evolve into new enterprises

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It was Justin Rogers’ great-grandmother who named Picturesque Farms over 100 years ago when she turned into the drive for the first time and exclaimed, “My, this is a picturesque farm!” More than seven generations after their ancestors purchased the land in 1843, the Rogers’ 300-acre grain farm in Brae, P.E.I. is still going, thanks […] Read more
Manitoba OYF nominees Will and 
Jen Bergmann with their children Brooklyn, seven; Cole, six; and Emmett, four.
Features, News

Canada’s OYF 2019: Manitoba nominees

Will and Jen Bergmann share passions for photography, farming and feeding the world

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Will and Jen Bergmann don’t believe they’re special. The only thing that sets them apart from other farmers, says Will, is how they share their story. It’s a story about modern farming and what it takes to feed the world, whether farmers are growing commodity crops or organic vegetables. The Bergmanns grow both, and now […] Read more
New soybean varieties for 2020
Crops, Features, Soybeans

New soybean varieties for 2020

While you’re bringing in your 2019 soybean crop, start planning for next year

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[UPDATED: Nov. 15, 2019] For most Prairie farmers, the 2019 growing season was a year that put their seed genetics to the test. It’s hard to make a choice about next year’s varieties without knowing what’s coming up in the weather forecast, but this is a good time to start studying your options. There are […] Read more
Recent Australian canola seed varieties grown. Data source: Syngenta analysis, presented in 2019.
Crops, Features

Fighting blackleg Down Under

Australia's battle to hold back blackleg has had its share of success

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Speakers at Syngenta’s launch of Saltro, a new seed treatment, explained that Australian farmers have a different, more conservative approach to blackleg. In 1973, said Steve Marcroft from Marcroft Grains Pathology in Australia, “blackleg completely destroyed the crop.” For 15 years after that, there was very little canola grown in Australia. In the late 1980s, […] Read more
The yellow stripes on the plants were not running along the length of the leaves, as would have been the case with a nutrient deficiency, but along their width instead.
Barley, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Zebra stripes in barley a result of herbicide carryover?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the November 5, 2019 issue of Grainews

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Ken was driving by one of his barley fields at the end of May when he spotted a problem. His emerging barley crop seemed to be turning yellow, and when Ken pulled over to have a closer look, he was alarmed by yellow bands resembling “zebra stripes” on many of the plants. Ken, who also […] Read more
Family sees four options to get farm finances on track
Features, News

Family sees four options to get farm finances on track

If you’re in financial trouble, address the problem without abandoning your goals

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Farmers facing financial issues should address these issues as soon as they occur. In this case, Joe and Sally saw a potential problem and took steps to find a way forward. Although this example is a small farm, the issues and options are equally applicable to larger operations. A farm couple that we will call […] Read more
Ivan Dueck’s grandfather, age 88, took a ride with Ivan to deliver apples. Ivan’s grandfather started the first apple orchard in the area.
Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: Ivan Dueck and his brothers

Ivan Dueck and his brothers farm in Namiquipa, Mexico

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Every farm has its own story. No two farms (or farmers) are exactly alike. Everyone got started in a different way, and every farm has a different combination of family and hired staff who make the decisions and keep things running. But, in general, even after you consider all of the details, farmers are more […] Read more
The Agricost farm has over 50,000 tonnes of grain storage.
Features, News

Europe’s biggest arable farm extends to 57,000 hectares

The largest farm in the EU is in Romania, but owned by a UAE investment fund

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With 57,000 hectares to harvest and a subsidy cheque of $15 million coming in, Agricost is the largest farm in Europe and is based in Romania. In the spring of 2018, United Arab Emirates-based investment fund Al Dahra purchased the farm from a Romanian businessman in a deal worth over $345 million. This investment group […] Read more
Researcher Lana Shaw says intercrop researchers are finding 
crop combinations that are economically beneficial.
Crops, Features

Intercropping research catching up

Researchers are taking a look at the intercropping combinations farmers are trying at home

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When most farmers think about intercropping, peas and canola come to mind, which has to date probably been the most common pairing for an intercrop system. But research by Lana Shaw at the South East Research Farm (SERF) in Redvers, Sask., has shown that other combinations — like chickpeas and flax or mustard and lentils […] Read more
Paul Rea is BASF’s senior vice president agricultural solutions North America. Rea says there is an opportunity to increase ag production in North America.
Crops, Features

BASF launches into a new era

Diversified portfolio and commitment to Canadian growers

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[UPDATE: Oct. 29, 2019] Hybrid wheat certainly isn’t the only new product BASF has in the development pipeline, but it is an indicator of the game-changing technology the long time “pulse crop” company plans to deliver to western Canadian farmers in a vastly expanded cropping systems role over the coming years. While field trials of […] Read more

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