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Ag orgs build open-source data platform
Crops, Features

Ag orgs build open-source data platform

Collecting data is one thing, but pulling it into one place brings it to the next level

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The advent of precision agriculture technology and the Internet of Things has led to the collection of vast amounts of data. Many different types of tools, equipment and devices gather data on everything from crop yields to how many steps an animal takes in a day. Much of that data, however, is under-utilized and is […] Read more
Climate FieldView is a new data platform in the 
Western Canadian market.
Crops, Features, Weather

New digital data platform on the Prairies

The Climate Corp. launches its Climate FieldView 
service in Western Canada

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It’s been a long time coming and in the works,” said Denise Hockaday, Canada business lead for The Climate Corporation. The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto, launched a new data service in the U.S. in 2015 and in Eastern Canada last year. Prairie farmers will have access to Climate FieldView for the first time […] Read more
New oilseed and soybean varieties for 2018
Crops, Features

New oilseed and soybean varieties for 2018

XTend soybeans have become a standard part of the soybean variety portfolio


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In August the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association surveyed retail companies about their experience with the herbicide dicamba in the 2017 growing season. Of the 124 respondents (including some head offices with several branches), more than 80 per cent said they’d seen dicamba damage in soybean fields adjacent to where soybeans were sprayed, although they […] Read more
As growers know, canola can be a very durable crop able to bounce back from heavy rain, insect pests and even to some extent hail events. It does have its limits, but despite adversity can recover amazingly well. With good agronomic practices and variable weather conditions the question is still to be answered — did any fields in the 2017 Canola 100 challenge produce that magic yield?
Canola, Crops, Features

Extra canola inputs appear to pay off

That 100-bushel yield still a bit elusive, but growers are pushing their fields to the limits

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David Harrish figures the extra agronomic attention he paid to a Canola 100 contest plot on his north-central Alberta farm in 2017 would probably pay off for the rest of his canola acres. Harrish, who dished out some extra TLC to about 70 acres of Pioneer Hi-Bred canola this past season, says it produced about […] Read more
New cereal seed varieties for 2018
Cereals, Crops, Features

New cereal seed varieties for 2018

This year’s crop of varieties are all about fighting fusarium and increasing crop yields

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You only need to take a quick look at this list to see that seed companies are responding to farmers’ needs. Fusarium continues to be a problem across the Prairies (where there isn’t a drought). On July 13, 2017, farmers across most of Manitoba were facing a red zone on the fusarium head blight (FHB) […] Read more
Robert Ellis, his wife Kaylie Ellis and their son Rixten live west of Elrose, Saskatchewan.
Crops, Features

Meet your farming neighbours: Robert Ellis

Every farm has a story. Here’s the story of one 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, Prairie farmers are […] Read more
Grower keen to see what canola can do
Canola, Crops, Features

Grower keen to see what canola can do

It wasn’t a 100-bushel crop, but Merle Klassen is getting closer and enjoying the challenge

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A fleet of new green machinery around the farm would probably look good, but Merle Klassen says if nothing else comes of the Canola 100 contest, at least he’s enjoying the challenge of trying to optimize canola yields on his south-central Alberta farm. Klassen who has been involved in both the 2016 and 2017 years […] Read more
Not only were Rob’s wheat leaves yellowing (chlorotic), but their centres 
were forming bands.
Crops, Features, Spring Wheat

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: The case of the yellow-tinged spring wheat

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the December 5, 2017 issue of Grainews

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In June 2016, I had an interesting situation arise when Rob, a Brunkild-area producer, called me about his yellowing red spring wheat crop. While out scouting his other fields for crop staging, Rob noticed one of his wheat fields, which he had sprayed with herbicide a few days earlier, had a yellow tinge to it. […] Read more
Rob Saik says he is pleased with farmer participation in the Canola 100 challenge, and impressed with decent yields despite adverse growing conditions.
Canola, Crops, Features

Drumroll for the 2017 Canola 100 challenge results

Results of the second year of the contest to find a 100-bushel canola yield to be announced this week

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Is the “green” going home this year? That’s the question that will be answered this first week of December as the results of the 2017 Canola 100 challenge are revealed at the Agri-Trend Agrology Farm Forum conference in Calgary. This is the second year of the three-year Canola 100 contest challenging canola growers from across […] Read more
Canola, Crops, Features

Mother Nature shreds canola contest plans

Two major hail events takes 2016 yield leader out of the running

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Mike Nelson is all too familiar with the fact you can plan the best possible agronomy program for canola, but Mother Nature has to sign off first. Nelson, who farms with family members near Westaskiwin, Alta., was the yield leader in the 2016 Canola 100 challenge producing a verified yield of 81.6 bushels per acre […] Read more

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