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Jay and Jennifer Bruggencate and Mike and Kelly Sulzle and their families farm together at Vector Grain near Lacombe, Alta., as a joint venture.
Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: The Bruggencates and Sulzles

This is the story of a joint venture between 
the Bruggencates and the Sulzles

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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
We marked out a circle on the ground to make sure the first few sheets were set out in the right shape.
Crops, Features

Our last minute grain storage solution

Mid-way through this year’s harvest, we set up two 9,600-bushel temporary grain bins

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Midway through this year’s harvest, we began to realize that we were likely going to run out of storage space before the terminal called in the canola we had under contract. There wasn’t time to buy a “real” bin and move it in. Since we don’t have a grain bagger, we talked to the neighbours […] Read more
Xarvio’s scouting app identifies weeds in the field using photo recognition software and artificial intelligence.
Crops, Features

New crop scouting tool for your pocket

A new app from Bayer’s digital farming company, Xarvio, puts the smart in smartphone

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Wondering which disease is damaging your crop or which weed is growing in your field? There’s an app for that. “Xarvio is a digital farming company with the ambition to deliver a healthy field,” said Warren Bills, business development manager. Xarvio was launched and owned by Bayer. BASF recently acquired the company as one of […] Read more
The bare patches in this canola field were not only located on knolls, 
but throughout the field.
Canola, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Are cutworms collapsing this canola crop?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the October 16, 2018 issue of Grainews

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On June 19, Ryan, a Saskatchewan producer who farms south of Canora, called me to diagnose a problem in his canola crop. While applying the first pass of glyphosate on the field, Ryan discovered some bare patches — he thought he may have a cutworm problem. Ryan’s farm is situated on light, sandy soil with […] Read more
Gabi Uelinger holds six of the required native plants for a 
Q2 meadow.
Features, Hay

Farming for the insects and birds

Government programs provide funds for Swiss farmers who follow new mowing rules

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Schleitheim, Switzerland: All around me farmers are mowing. From June 15th onwards farmers are allowed to cut meadows and hayfields qualifying for Q2 government subsidies. The Q2 (qualitätsstufe 2) program aims to provide and protect healthy habitat for birds and insects. Non-qualifying fields are already being cut the second or even the third time. Obviously […] Read more
University of Alberta researcher Victor Manoli tours International Clubroot Workshop delegates through his research work at Alberta’s Crop 
Diversification Centre North. Manoli has infected these plants with clubroot spores to enable future study.
Canola, Features

No silver bullet for international disease

Scientists from around the globe met in Edmonton to discuss the latest on clubroot

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The world’s top canola researchers and agronomists met in Edmonton in early August to talk about their work on the pathogen that’s lowering canola yields throughout Alberta and spreading to the rest of the Prairies. While researchers at the International Clubroot Workshop discussed the scientific research underway, farmer delegates were disappointed to hear there is […] Read more
Longer cultivation licenses, more exemptions and fewer third-party testing requirements will simplify business for hemp growers.
Crops, Features

Rules ease up for growing hemp

Legal changes aren’t just for users; growers will also see fewer restrictions

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The Cannabis Act is slated to take effect October 17th, legalizing recreational cannabis use in Canada. Those legislative changes will also remove many roadblocks to growing hemp and open up new market opportunities, say those in the industry. The new Act removes hemp from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, says Keith Jones, vice president […] Read more
Linda and Wade Parkinson farm about an hour northwest of Saskatoon. 
They are transitioning their farm to their daughter and son-in-law.
Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: The Wasmuths

This is the story of Neil and Misty Wasmuth, and Misty’s parents, Wade and Linda

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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
A high clearance sprayer on a field in a prairie landscape
Crops, Features

Ontario report backs value of glyphosate

Thirty years of crop data support economic and environmental value

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The value of glyphosate to the agriculture industry, the economy and the environment is getting a bad and uninformed wrap from critics, say two long-time experts in agronomy and pesticide regulation fields who have reviewed a mountain of data compiled by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) which shows just the opposite. […] Read more
Plant density was low in some areas. The plants in these patchy regions were also much smaller than those in the rest of the field.
Canola, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Patchy problems in a canola field

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the September 25, 2018 issue of Grainews

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On June 11, while spraying his canola plants with an in-crop herbicide, Wade noticed regions of the crop had uneven emergence, causing some patchy areas. Wade farms 10,000 acres of canola, wheat and barley near Yorkton, Sask. He thought he might have an insect problem in his canola crop. “My guess is it’s flea beetles or cutworms,” he said. […] Read more

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