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There’s a new phos in town

TIMAC Agro is bringing a new type of phosphorus to Western Canada

By Leeann Minogue October 15, 2019

When TIMAC Agro International’s Top Phos product was listed as a finalist in Ag in Motion’s Innovation Program, in the plant and soil science category, many western Canadian farmers were not familiar with the company. TIMAC Agro may be new to Canada, but it’s not a new company. “We are in 131 countries,” said TIMAC […] Read more

Crops, Features

Fall-applied nitrogen and nitrogen stabilizers

Keep your nitrogen in the soil where plants need it

By Isabelle Thibout October 2, 2019

Applying nitrogen fertilizer in the fall is an effective way to manage time and efficiency when spring comes. However, it can be hard to assess how much nitrogen is available in the root zone early in the season and what was lost to leaching and denitrification. Leaching is the loss of nitrates to the soil […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

K+S cuts output on weak potash demand

By GFM Network News September 23, 2019

Frankfurt | Reuters — German mineral miner K+S will cut production of potash fertilizers, dragging core earnings lower, as a halt imposed by China on potash imports dampens global markets. “In the current weak market environment, which is further intensified by the continuing Chinese import bans on the standard potassium chloride product, adjusting production is […] Read more

Nutrien’s potash mine at Lanigan, Sask., about 100 km southeast of Saskatoon. (Nutrien.com)

Crops, Markets

Nutrien to idle three Saskatchewan potash mines

By GFM Network News September 11, 2019

Canadian fertilizer giant Nutrien plans to shut down three of its Saskatchewan potash mines for up to two months in the fourth quarter of the year. The Saskatoon company said Wednesday it “expects to proactively take up to eight-week inventory shutdowns” at its mines at Allan, Lanigan and Vanscoy, Sask. during that period. If all […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Why soybeans need inoculant and how some crops fix nitrogen without it

Plus, never do this with inoculant

By Ieuan Evans August 1, 2019

Next to water, nitrogen is usually the most limiting nutrient in crop production. In prairie agriculture, by far the major source of fixed nitrogen for crop production is nitrogen produced industrially via the Haber process. But nitrogen fixation by legumes is also a very important economic factor in world agriculture. The nitrogen-fixing family of plants, […] Read more

Terry Aberhart discusses variable-rate fertilizer application in comparison to flat-rate application in a hard red spring wheat crop in a 2012 video. (AberhartFarms.com via YouTube)

Crops, Machinery

Variable rate application good for soil, farmers’ bottom lines

By GFM Network News June 29, 2019

MarketsFarm — For Saskatchewan farmer Terry Aberhart and research scientist Alan Moulin, variable rate (VR) application is a no-brainer. In representing Sure Growth Solutions Inc. at the Global Cash Crop Conference in Winnipeg on Wednesday, Aberhart explained the cost savings farmers can achieve by applying different amounts of fertilizer. “The mentality is, if you want […] Read more

Columns, Crops

The basic facts around limestone

The limestone market is worth a billion dollars annually, but invaluable for yield increases

By Ieuan Evans June 24, 2019

Limestone, or calcium carbonate, CaCO3, makes up about 10 per cent of the sedimentary rocks on earth. Sometimes limestone contains appreciable amounts of magnesium. It’s then called dolomitic limestone, CaMg (CO3)2. Under pressure, limestone rock becomes metamorphosed into marble. Limestone rock is quarried in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Ontario and […] Read more

Preparing to spring spread the Bio-Sul product at Aberhart Farms in Langenburg, Sask.

Crops, Features

Compost-based sulphur fertility attracting farmers

Bio-Sul Premium Plus is gaining acres as a 5-year approach to sulphur supply

By John Dietz May 29, 2019

Five years into it, Marcel van Staveren is planning to do a second top dressing of a compost/sulphur fertilizer on his acres in southeastern Saskatchewan, near Creelman. He won’t be alone. The product, Bio-Sul Premium Plus, was introduced to the eastern Prairies in 2015 by the Aberhart family of Langenburg, Sask. This year, applicators for […] Read more

After Tom’s in-crop herbicide application, he noticed his wheat crop was yellowing in patches and there was a reduction in plant stand. Damaged plants were stunted and their leaves were twisting and pinched off.

Cereals, Crops, Features

Crop advisor casebook: Is fertilizer burn yellowing this wheat crop?

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the May 14, 2019 issue of Grainews

By Delaine Feil May 15, 2019

I received a call from Tom mid-June last year after he noticed his wheat crop was yellowing and there was a reduction in plant stand following his in-crop herbicide application. Tom, who owns a 2,500-acre mixed farm in the Meadow Lake region, thought the stand loss could be the result of an injury from the […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Railways book higher grain freight revenue for Q1

By GFM Network News May 6, 2019

Canada’s big two railways reported somewhat higher revenue from handling grain during their fiscal quarter ending March 31, despite both companies reporting winter weather woes. Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) on April 23 reported grain segment revenue of $380 million for the quarter, up six per cent from the year-earlier period, on about 92,800 grain carloads, […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures mixed

Most of Manitoba harvest wraps up for 2025

U.S. grains: Soybean, corn futures hit one-month highs as crude oil soars

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