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Dan Owen used a drone to take this photo. ATP’s untreated plot is on the right; the treated plot is on the left.
Canola, Crops

ATP packs on the nutrients at AIM plots

Ag In Motion Plots: ATP played a high-end game, with 215 pounds of N and a buffet of micros

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ATP gave nutrients a chance to show what they could do at its Canola 100 plot at the Ag In Motion farm show near Saskatoon last July. First, there were the nutrients ATP put down with the drill. In the seed row: 20 pounds of phosphorus per acre, two pounds of zinc, a half pound of copper, a […] Read more
Mike Nelson’s sprayer not only applied herbicide and fungicide treatments, but also foliar nutrient products on a 160-acre field ear marked for a canola yield challenge.
Canola, Crops

The Central Alberta experience

Canola 100 Challenge: An Alberta farmer tests practices toward optimizing his canola yield

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Central Alberta farmer, Mike Nelson knows his canola fell short of the magic 100-bushel yield mark for the 2016 Canola 100 Challenge, but the experience made it worthwhile for him to consider the contest again. Nelson, who is part of the family farming operation, Nelson Farms, that includes his father Lorne, brother Matt and brother-in-law […] Read more
Canola challenge comes down to the wire
Canola, Crops

Canola challenge comes down to the wire

Canola 100 Challenge: Will there be a farm with a verified 100-bushel canola yield this season?

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Is there a winner? Stay tuned to learn if any of the 21 Western Canadian farm “finalists” in the first Canola 100 challenge actually hit the target of producing a 100 bushel per acre canola yield in 2016. The results and winner, if any, will be announced at the annual Agri-Trend Agrology Farm Forum conference […] Read more
Kris Mayerle took a shot at the 100-bushel canola challenge on his farm, KRM Farms at Tisdale, Sask.
Canola, Crops

The Saskatchewan experience

Canola 100 Challenge: The contest might be a personal challenge to see what it takes to produce top yield

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Kris Mayerle says a 100-bushel canola yield just doesn’t fall into your grain cart. While cranking the nutrients onto a 100-acre field on his northeast Saskatchewan farm did increase yields in 2016, he’d still like to find the practices that are needed to hit or at least close in more on that elusive high-yield target. Mayerle, who along with family members […] Read more
The Canola 100 challenge is achievable
Canola, Crops

The Canola 100 challenge is achievable

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If Manitoba canola grower Ed Rempel was 10 years younger and had more than one field, he’d be all over the Canola 100 challenge. Even as it stands, he may still throw his air seeder into the ring and join what is expected to be a few hundred Canadian farmers involved in a three-year competition […] Read more

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