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Janine and Craig Wagar with their daughter Blayke, 
finishing the harvest on a beautiful fall day.
Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: The Wagar family

This is the story of Craig and Janine Wagar and their farm near Rosetown

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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
Nutrien Ag Solutions launched a new customer portal over the summer.
Features, News

Nutrien Ag Solutions offers new digital platform

Customers can access agronomy, 
business information and past purchases online

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A major ag input dealers aims to go beyond selling fertilizer and seed by providing easy access to business and agronomic information for its customers through a digital platform. “We think this is where the world is going and we want to offer that service to our customers,” says Mike Frank, president of Nutrien Ag […] Read more
Farmers can look forward to more new flax varieties from the CDC in the coming years.
Crops, Features

Four new flax varieties for 2019

Flax varietal research is backed by a strong breeding program at the CDC

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Four new flax varieties will be on the market for 2019, three varieties from SeCan that were developed through the Crop Development Centre (CDC), and one variety from SeedNet that came out of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s breeding program. For now, breeding programs at Agriculture Canada and Viterra have slowed to a halt, so we […] Read more
The plants were at the four-leaf stage with one or two tillers, and were already quite large. The leaves were starting to burn on the tips and the roots were shrivelling up.
Cereals, Crops, Features

Crop advisor’s casebook: What’s causing the half-circle pattern in this wheat field?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the November 6, 2018 issue of Grainews

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John is an Alberta producer who has a mixed farming operation located north of Vermilion. His main crops are wheat and canola. John called me mid-June this year to examine his wheat crop after he noticed some patches in the field’s outside rounds were slowly dying. As I approached the field, I could see what […] Read more
If there are high levels of cutworms in your fields, control them before they do a lot of damage.
Crops, Features, Soybeans

Dealing with soybean aphids and cutworms

Hot, dry summer weather can bring soybean aphids into your fields


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Soybean aphids tend to come along with hot, dry weather, says Cassandra Tkachuk, production specialist for Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers (MPSG). “Moist conditions mean fungal pathogens can help take down populations of soybean aphid. Hot, dry conditions are conducive to them reproducing rapidly.” While this year’s harvest weather wasn’t hot and dry in most […] Read more
The relatively dry spring and hot dry summer were extremely favourable to kochia in Western Canada.
Crops, Features

Herbicide diversity tackles kochia

As the weed works hard to outmanoeuvre chemicals, farmers expand the toolbox

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Joe Wurz takes kochia control seriously. The southern Alberta farmer at the Lathom Hutterite Colony takes all weeds seriously, but a few years ago when he observed some healthy-looking kochia plants standing in a patch of dead kochia on farm fields near Brooks — all had been sprayed with glyphosate — he suspected herbicide tolerance […] Read more
Kochia in a wheat field.
Crops, Features

Have your kochia tested for resistance

Keeping this weed in check required a multi-pronged management approach

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Western Canada has a kochia problem. It’s probably because kochia can tolerate things such as drought or salinity better than most crops; which allows it to proliferate in many areas of fields where the crop is less competitive. Kochia is one of the first weeds to emerge in spring and continues to grow until the […] Read more
C4 plants have a process that allows them to use CO2 down to a much lower level than C3 plants.
Crops, Features

Untangling C3 and C4 plants

What is the difference between these two plant types, 
and how does it affect the Prairies?

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Recent research articles have reported that scientists are making progress converting C3 plants to C4 plants. Other articles say that C3 plants will thrive with more CO2 in the air. What’s the difference between C3 and C4 plants? What does this mean for Western Canadian agriculture? C3 and C4 plants Plants in Western Canada — […] Read more
Brevant, Corteva’s new seed brand, will be sold through ag retailers. Farmers will also be able to buy Pioneer seed through seed reps.
Features

Merging into Corteva

Dow and Dupont products will be sold by Corteva, but branded as Brevant

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Farmers looking for their usual Dow and DuPont products will have to get used to some new brands as company officials prepare for more change. Corteva Agriscience formed when Dow and DuPont merged last year. Currently Corteva is the ag division of the newly merged company, but DowDuPont plans to launch Corteva as a separate, […] Read more
Wheat and Canadian Money or dollar or currency in double exposure shot, concept for earnings or spend in Agriculture
Features, News

Farm debt in Western Canada

Our debt levels are increasing, but our debt-to-equity ratios are holding steady

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The headline of an article released by FCC near the end of September was a little worrying: “What does a new high in farm debt mean for the ag sector?” Between 2016 and 2017, total Canadian farm debt increased by 6.6 per cent to more than $100 billion. In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the increase […] Read more

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