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Be ready for herbicide shortages

If you haven’t lined up products already, be prepared to be flexible and creative

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Scott Perkin is ready for the 2022 growing season. Like everyone else, the southwest Manitoba farmer still has the rest of the winter to get through, but at least he has key inputs he’ll need for the coming growing season either on the farm or booked with input suppliers. Perkin, who is part of the […] Read more
Blair Ford says he was impressed with how easy the Climate FieldView software is to use. Once he upgrades the air seeding system to a unit with variable-rate capability, he will be looking forward to creating variable-rate prescriptions for fertilizer application and seeding rates.
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Software provides a new view of all fields

Bayer technology makes digital farming easy to use and useful

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Blair Ford and Colette Thurston have been seeing their east-central Alberta farm from a whole new perspective over the past year and a half. Using an online program, they’ve got all 2,300 acres mapped, and throughout the growing season regularly receive satellite imagery showing variations in crop colour (a vegetative index) that can alert them […] Read more
Rebate roundup 2022
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Rebate roundup 2022

These cash-back plans can help you get the most for your hard-earned input dollars

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As we all know, farming can be an expensive business. No surprise then when opportunities arise to save some cash on crop inputs, almost any farmer is going to sit up and take notice. With this in mind (in alphabetical order), here’s our annual roundup of rebates available to western Canadian producers for the 2022 […] Read more
New for the 2022 model year, the Fendt 900 Gen7 series tractors offer five models from 296 to 415 horsepower.
Machinery, News

High-horsepower tractor guide for 2022

There’s a lot of muscle packed into these machines as well as loads of new features and updates

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The global supply chain disruptions that have affected production in nearly all sectors of the economy have troubled ag equipment manufacturing companies too. All major brands reported plant disruptions. Some have even reported temporary shutdowns, such as CNH. Last October, the company announced it was temporarily closing “several” of its agricultural equipment manufacturing facilities along […] Read more
Cleanfarms offers collection bags free of charge to producers across Canada so they can easily return their empty containers to a Cleanfarms collection point for recycling.
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The dos (and one don’t) of on-farm ag waste management

Cleanfarms offers tips to manage plastics and other farm waste

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Most farmers today recognize the necessity of managing agricultural waste such as empty containers, bags and baler twine — they don’t want to throw it in a ditch to deal with later because that time may never come. On the other hand, it’s one of many things that need to be dealt with on a […] Read more
Cleanfarms collects unused pesticides on a rotating basis, meaning every region is covered once every three years. For those with horses or livestock, the same program also collects livestock and equine medication.
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Bag it up, ship it out, move on

The programs available to farmers to safely — and easily — dispose of ag waste with Cleanfarms

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Keeping a clean farmyard is an easy sell for most producers. Even if it’s something individual farmers may struggle with, it’s still a goal for most growers wishing to be good neighbours and set an example for their industry. However, keeping a clean farm doesn’t stop at the farm gate. In recent years, recycling end-of-life […] Read more
At the podium, Jeremy Boychyn, co-ordinator of the Plot2Farm program, introduces three Alberta producers, who have participated in on-farm research trials, to delegates attending the Prairie Cereals Summit, organized by the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commissions in December. Producers seated from left to right include Devon Hartzler, who farms near Carstairs, Wade McAllister, who farms near Innisfail, and Gord Ellis, who farms near Olds. Hartzler was involved in projects looking at different barley and wheat seeding rates, McAllister’s project looked at row spacing for wheat, while the 2021 project for Ellis evaluated the effectiveness of a PGR on barley.
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A whole new approach to on-farm research

February deadline approaches for the next round of projects

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Gord Ellis and Wade McAllister are two Alberta producers who say properly designed, field-scale, on-farm research projects over the past couple of growing seasons have provided some valuable information relevant to their farms. Both producers were involved in the relatively new Plot2Farm program developed by the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commissions. In 2020, Ellis, of […] Read more
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Crop Production Show rolls out next week

More than 20,000 visitors expected to four-day event in Saskatoon

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After sitting out the 2020 tradeshow and conference season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Saskatchewan’s Crop Production Show is full steam ahead this January, with doors opening to a live tradeshow and conference schedule in Saskatoon next week. All systems are go for the Jan. 10-13, 2022, event, which was first launched nearly 40 years […] Read more

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