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Canola is typically sold with a seed treatment that includes both a 
fungicide and insecticide.
Crops, Features

Are seed treatments worth the cost?

Ask the Experts: Seed treatments come at a price, but some say they add enough benefits to pay that bill

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Some farmers consider seed treatments an insurance policy to try and ensure their crop has every opportunity to germinate and establish healthy plants. Others see them as another added cost they don’t need, especially if they haven’t had any serious disease issues for a while. Invariably though, once a farmer has had a disease problem […] Read more
Set your soybeans up for success
Crops, Soybeans

Set your soybeans up for success

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Many factors come in to play in getting your soybean crop off to a good start. Field selection, fertility, varietal selection and planting populations are some of the key elements to be considered during the planning phase. As the planning phase ends and you move to in-season practices, your early season weed control will be […] Read more
Fenugreek (shown) is used as both a culinary and medicinal herb and is a common ingredient in Indian food.
Crops, Features

Should I grow the latest new crop?

Angela Lovell asks the experts whether or not getting in on a hot new trend is a good idea

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Niger, quinoa, fenugreek. These are just a few of the new crops starting to appear on a very small number of acres across Western Canada, but the biggest question farmers should be asking about them is — who’s going to buy them? “With any new crop, farmers should make sure they’re not listening to marketing […] Read more
Farmer in wheat field
Cereals, Crops

Perennial wheat more than a pipedream

It's still years from commercialization, but early perennial wheat research is promising

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Doug Cattani is working on a long-term investment that will pay dividends down the road. The University of Manitoba plant sciences professor is currently in year five of a now much-publicized 15- to 20-year perennial wheatgrass breeding project. Perennial grain is something of a holy grail in plant breeding: a cereal crop that delivers high […] Read more
Volunteer canola.
Crops, Features

Controlling seeds post-harvest

Can pulverizing weed seeds after harvest control weeds in Western Canada?

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As buzz builds about Australia’s Harrington Seed Destructor, researchers are looking at whether pulverizing seeds after harvest will work on the Prairies. But preliminary research shows post-harvest seed control is unlikely to work for all of Western Canada’s weeds. Breanne Tidemann presented new research at the Herbicide Resistance Summit in Saskatoon this March. Tidemann, who is […] Read more
Eight tips for growing flax
Crops

Eight tips for growing flax

Agronomy researcher Chris Holzapfel shares what he’s learned about growing flax

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If you count each research plot as a crop, Chris Holzapfel – a research manager for the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation – has grown more crops in a few years than most farmers have a chance to grow in a lifetime. Holzapfel’s research includes several different crops, but at a recent Saskatchewan Oilseed Producer […] Read more
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Crops, Features

Making precision ag work for you

Software and technologies are evolving fast. Find the combination that works for you

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The software and technologies of precision agriculture have changed immensely since early yield monitors were first introduced. More and more tools are now available to cash crop growers to form data sets that help break fields into zones that allow for targeting of inputs and crop varieties specifically to those zones, says Doug Aspinall, a […] Read more
Crops, Features

Watching the plants all season

The new way to scout: photos of your crop's progress through the growing season

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I’m working on a new project,” Franck Groeneweg says. “I’ve been working with aerial imagery. There’s a lot of drone excitement out there, but to get it done, I am using a regular fixed wing plane on my farm.” Groeneweg is flying his plane over farmland and using attached cameras to take aerial pictures of […] Read more
Rape field, canola crops
Features

8 tips to running your own crop trials

Tired of adapting other people's research to your farm? Get your own

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Every acre can be a research acre, Nicole Philp told farmers at Saskatoon’s CropSphere in January. Farmers interested in testing new products and practices can create powerful data sets with a little co-ordination, said Philp, a Canola Council of Canada agronomist. But how can you make sure you get good data out of your on-farm […] Read more
Chickpea is one pulse crop seeing renewed interest from growers.
Crops, Features, Pulses

Pulse acres on the rise this spring

High prices are driving higher interest in planting peas and lentils this season

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The Saskatchewan Pulse Growers Association (SPGA) predicts, in its January 2016 pulse outlook, that there will be a significant increase in pulse acres again this year, with lentils leading the charge. At least 4.46 million acres of lentils are expected to go in the ground this spring, with some market experts predicting it may go over […] Read more

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