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WInter wheat.
Crops, Features

Winter wheats get better and better

New winter wheats improve on yield, disease and quality; some with specialty appeal

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Several promising new lines of milling winter wheat are coming along for cereal crop producers across Western Canada over the next couple of years, says an Agriculture Canada winter wheat breeder. Rob Graf, based at the Lethbridge Research Centre says producers in all parts of the prairies should be watching for a new line called […] Read more
Bernie McClean's annual crop rotation includes canola, CPS wheat, malt barley and oats.
Crops, Features

Extending rotations, in the field

Part 1 of 3: How real farmers are extending their rotations

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There seems to be no shortage of articles, presentations and research exhorting farmers to lengthen rotations. Longer rotations benefit everything from weed control to disease suppression in crops. But what are farmers doing to maintain or extend rotations? Grainews spoke to three farmers to find out how they’re managing their rotations. And while each farmer […] Read more
Hofer encourages farmers to drive
over this drop pan — they won’t be damaged.
Crops, Features

Combine loss drop pan

This homemade grain catcher helps farmer fine-tune combine settings

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When David Hofer’s equipment stopped meeting his needs, he did something farmers have done for millennia: he jerry-rigged something that works better. In this case, it’s a combine loss drop pan made of nylon tarp and fiberglass rods that can be thrown directly under combine wheels without bending or breaking. Hofer farms around 10,000 acres […] Read more
The HRV system at the Brant Hutterite Colony replaces 
conventional ventilation.
Features, Livestock

Ventilation system takes chill off

Capturing the heat from stale air helps reduce this barn’s heating bill

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Capturing at least some of the heat from stale or “old” air being exhausted from poultry and hog barns is one more step in developing intensive livestock operations with net zero energy barns. The net zero term means a barn is producing as much energy as it is using. Two poultry barns in Alberta, for […] Read more
Tetrastichus julis, a parasitoid wasp whose larvae develop within cereal leaf beetle larvae can kill a substantial number of cereal leaf beetle larvae.
Crops, Features

Beneficial insects versus four major pests

There are more than just pests in 
those sweep nets; don’t sweep it all away

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Many insect pests feed on cereal crops and canola. But for every pest in the field, there are dozens of predators feeding on them. Knowing which beneficial insects feed on the major pests can help growers make better management decisions. University of Toronto postdoctoral entomologist Vincent Hervet explains. 1. Cereal leaf beetle The cereal leaf […] Read more
Brent called in early July about his canola crop after he found insect feeding damage on the plants’ leaves and oldest pods.
Canola, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: What’s causing the shot hole damage to these canola leaves?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the June 5, 2018 issue of Grainews

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Brent, a Saskatchewan producer, owns a 10,000-acre grain farm near Torquay, which is located about 16 kilometres north of the Canada-U.S. border. Brent called me in early July about his canola crop after he found insect-feeding damage on the plants’ leaves and oldest pods. “I might have a bertha armyworm problem in my canola crop,” […] Read more
Karl and Julie Gabriel have three children: Michael, seven; Roseann, six; and Lukas, four.
Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: Karl and Julie Gabriel

This is the story of Karl and Julie Gabriel, farming near Wroxton, Sask.

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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 science-based grading system is one factor in Canadian wheat and durum’s competitive edge in the world market.
Cereals, Crops, Features

What grain customers want to know about Canadian wheat

From gluten to glyphosate: what end users want to know about our wheat

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Customers in far-flung places such as Japan may seem far removed from a western Canadian farm. But those customers are keenly interested in how Canadian wheat and durum is grown and handled before it arrives at their mills, bakeries, or other processing facilities. In fact, Japanese bakers are quite aware of different Canadian wheat varieties, […] Read more
Corn diseases to watch for this season
Corn, Crops, Features

Corn diseases to watch for this season

Corn growers will need to be on the lookout for goss’s wilt and fusarium stalk rot

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With seeding time fast approaching, now is a good time to take note of two corn diseases that could pose challenges to growers in 2018. One disease that has received a lot more attention in recent years is goss’s wilt, a bacterial disease of corn. Damage from sand-blasting, rain, strong winds or hail can cause […] Read more
red spring wheat
Cereals, Features

Niche market wheats are coming soon

Reduced-gluten wheat just the first of several geared to consumer tastes

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While your everyday, even high quality, hard red spring wheat isn’t doing so well in the marketplace right now, a biotech company in Davis, California, is launching a new reduced-gluten HRSW. Arcadia Biosciences also has other wheats with distinctive health-benefit traits in its pipeline. Arcadia is hopeful that introducing these non-GMO traits into wheat will […] Read more

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