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Crops, Features

Herbicide researchers pick new fights

Different modes of action may overcome a lull in herbicide discovery

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Herbicide development has slowed in recent years, but innovative research methods could soon drive significant progress in the field. For decades, the pace of discovery of new modes of action — that is, how a herbicide interferes with the plant’s normal functions — was robust. From the 1950s through the 1980s, an average of one […] Read more
Editor’s Rant: Lights out
Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Lights out

Thoughts on green policy-making ahead of Justin Trudeau's departure

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Up on the shelf where we keep light bulbs of assorted sizes and wattages, I just happened across an old compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) — remember, those bulbs that looked like an Arby’s curly fry wrapped in thin white glass? Talk about a relic from a bygone time in western civilization when, it seemed, the […] Read more
A drone image, taken by Dr. Philip Harder, then with the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for Hydrology, shows the test field in February 2023 with different amounts of snow trapped by different stubble heights.
Crops, Features, Weather

Stubble height can make yield difference

Under extremely dry growing conditions, do your best to manage the moisture that’s there

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You may not think leaving stubble just a bit taller would make much of a difference — but field scale research in Saskatchewan is showing even two more inches of stubble height, for example, can trap snow that could translate into about $40 or more per acre in extra yield. That’s not just wishful thinking, […] Read more
Honourees gathered last Nov. 15 at Agritechnica for the presentation of the 2023 Women in Ag Awards.
Features

Nominations open for international Women in Ag Award

Women who’ve made an exceptional contribution to the industry can be nominated

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Do you know a woman working in agriculture that has made an outstanding contribution to the industry? If so, a nomination to receive an international “Women in Ag Award” may be in order. DLG, the German Agricultural Society, which hosts the farm shows Agritechnica and the animal husbandry-focused EuroTier in Hannover, Germany, is accepting nominations […] Read more
A plot-scale unit seeds wheat into one of the research plots. Wheat varieties were chosen based on regionally popular varieties for each test site.
Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Features, Spring Wheat

It pays to adjust seeding rate based on moisture

Keep wheat plant count in line with moisture expectations — and limit the amount of tillering

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Research done across Saskatchewan recommends that the best way to optimize wheat yields is to adjust your wheat seeding rate to reflect moisture conditions, says a report from the Western Applied Research Corporation (WARC). The research concluded if you’re heading into what looks like a drier growing season, a mid- to lower wheat seeding rate […] Read more
Cattle take shelter in the stalks of Brett McRae’s intercropped corn grazing system.
Features

Corn-soybean intercrop goes to a taste test

The novel crop combination is getting an even more novel test of its utility

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Glacier FarmMedia — Brett McRae is spicing up his corn grazing system this year. He’s got more than one variety growing — a grazing-oriented option and the typical silage corn — but the real experiment is happening beneath the canopy. This year, the corn shared space with forage soybean and hairy vetch. The beans were […] Read more
Faba beans.
Crops, Features, Pulses

The flatulence-free faba bean

The process used is seen as an important tool for sustainability

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Glacier FarmMedia — Let’s get the obvious part out of the way. By separating “the good stuff” (protein, starch and dietary fibre) from faba beans, a University of Alberta researcher has improved on a process that minimizes human flatulence from eating them. That issue has long been a deterrent to mass acceptance of the pulse. […] Read more
a 60-foot Pillar disc drill to seed hard red spring wheat
Cereals Production Guide, Crops, Features

Earlier-than-early seeding

These farmers use soil temperature, rather than the calendar, to time seeding wheat

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Not long ago, brothers Matthew and Farley Gould, who farm in east-central Alberta, had no idea of the resiliency of wheat seedlings against adverse growing conditions. But over the past three growing seasons they’ve seeded part of their hard red spring wheat crop early. How early? Soil temperatures have barely thawed, and germinated seedlings have […] Read more

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