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A new fungicide from Syngenta is designed to help control fusarium in cereals and sclerotinia in canola.
Crops, Features

New protection products coming from Syngenta

New fungicides and a plant growth regulator in the queue for registration

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Registration of a new active ingredient is making it possible for Syngenta Canada to bring several fungicide products to the market with promise of improved disease control in wheat and canola, along with a wide range of other field and horticultural crops. Adepidyn (which is the trade name for pydiflumetofen) is viewed as one of […] Read more
This UAV (drone) photo shows the extent of the damage due to necrosis and poor growth caused by a pest outbreak in Nick’s timothy crop.
Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Winter kill woes. Did this timothy crop suffer from the cold winter and cool, dry spring?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the January 21, 2019 issue of Grainews

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Following an abnormally cold winter and cool, dry spring, Nick thought his timothy crop was suffering from winter kill. Large, random areas within the field were exhibiting plant necrosis as well as poor and unusual growth and vigour. Nick — who farms about 6,000 acres of mixed cereals, pulses, oilseeds, alfalfa and timothy near Picture […] Read more
Paying for new crop variety research
Crops, Features

Paying for new crop variety research

Consultations around new producer funding models for variety development are underway

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Throughout November and December 2018, officials from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) consulted in Winnipeg, Ottawa, Saskatoon and Edmonton about a new framework for plant- breeding institutions to collect a return on their investment for the varieties they develop. The consultations began with some discussion on the concept […] Read more
From left to right, Rob Saik, founder and former president of AgriTrend Agrology who created the contest; Merle Klassen, Canola 100 winner; Yancy Wright, senior agronomist with John Deere; and Lander Anderson,
a representative of Cervus Equipment, the John Deere dealer in Trochu, Alta. 
Canola, Features

Canola 100 contest winner sees green

No one achieved a 100-bushel yield, but results were still impressive

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As central-Alberta farmer Merle Klassen claims the grand prize, the three-season long contest called the Canola 100 Challenge is all but history for their farm, except for a few hundred hours of quality field time with a fleet of John Deere equipment during the 2019 growing season. Klassen, who along with family members operates Klassen […] Read more
The Canola 100 Challenge was launched at the Ag In Motion farm show in July 2015. From left to right, these are president and CEO of Glacier Media, Jon Kennedy; Rob Saik, former president of Agri-Trend Agrology and creator of the Canola 100 Challenge — Agri-Prize; and Yancy Wright, senior agronomist with John Deere.
Canola, Features

Canola Challenge: learning to feed the world

The idea is to encourage farmers to push the limits and think outside the box

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The world needs food and everyone needs a challenge. Put those two things together and you come up with something like the Canola 100 Challenge, that over the past three years piqued the interest of more than 100 Canadian canola growers who put their agronomic and management skills to the challenge of producing a 100 […] Read more
New corn seed varieties for 2019
Corn, Features

New corn seed varieties for 2019

There are 11 new corn varieties on the market for Western Canadian growers this year

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Corn growers have 11 new varieties to choose from when they’re making plans for 2019. Breeders are developing more short-season variety that are suited to a larger growing area. Pioneer Hi-Bred’s new ultra-early P6909R variety needs only 1950 Corn Heat Units, which could greatly expand the corn-growing region of Western Canada. Here’s a list of […] Read more
Crops, Features

Who is CROPLAN?

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At a time when there are already several new company names on the new seed variety list, CROPLAN is jumping into the fray — bringing its brand to Western Canada for the first time. “CROPLAN is new to Western Canada, but certainly not new to North America,” says Michael Kereluik, CROPLAN product manager for Canada. […] Read more
Dyck’s future oat breeding projects include looking at increasing yields through restructuring the plant architecture, increasing protein content and developing oats that are less dusty and itchy.
Crops, Features, Oats

Two new oat varieties from Oat Advantage

These two oats varieties are Ore: they’re re-designed and re-imagined

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It’s taken 10 years, and a lot of hard work and persistence for Saskatchewan oat breeder Jim Dyck of Oat Advantage, to launch his two, new oat varieties that are getting oat growers and miller excited. The two varieties — named ORe 3541M and ORe 3542M — will be available through SeCan. They’re are both […] Read more
The Ference’s focus is to “work smarter and do more with less,” believing that diversity in many agriculture sectors is important to allow for success and part of their succession planning.
Features, News

Outstanding Young Farmers awards go to Alberta and Ontario

Diversified farming operations receive national recognition

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Two completely different, but well-managed mixed farming operations in Alberta and Ontario were named as Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers (OYF) in early December at the OYF national awards competition in Winnipeg, Man. After winning regional nominations in their home provinces, Craig and Jinel Ference of Double F Farms near Kirriemuir, Alta., and brothers, Jordan and […] Read more
Tyson and Kristin Swan have a two-year old son, and twins on the way.
Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: Tyson and Kristin Swan

Meet Tyson and Kristin Swan and their two-year old son in west-central Saskatchewan

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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

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