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Topsoil being removed from a depression area in a soil landscape restoration site in southern Manitoba.
Crops, Features

Restore productivity on your eroded knolls

Landscape restoration, cover cropping, residue redistribution and adjusting crop inputs are some management practices that can help

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The eroded knolls or hilltops common in Prairie farmland are typically the least productive, often yielding considerably less than other parts of a field. Curtis Cavers, an agronomist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada based at Portage la Prairie, Man., says there are ways to boost crop productivity in these problem areas. Cavers provided an assessment […] Read more
Fertilizer in storage at a phosphate plant in North Carolina.
Columns, Crops

Understanding soil phosphorus, part 1

Agronomy Management: Rotations and fertilizer management have dramatic effects on pools of organic and inorganic P

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Farmers and agronomists are very aware that phosphorus (P) is an essential element needed for optimum crop production in Western Canada. Most soils used for annual crops in Western Canada are very low, low or medium in plant-available soil P and are responsive to added P fertilizer. As a result, phosphate fertilizer use is second […] Read more
Crops that are less expensive to grow but still have profit potential may look more attractive in the expected market environment.
Crops, Features, Markets

Expect smaller margins for error in 2025

Unless you're growing pinto beans, sharpen your pencils when calculating costs of production

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Glacier FarmMedia — As of this writing it’s four and a half months until Canadian farmers will plant their next crop and at least eight months before the next harvest. But as of the middle of December, potential profits from growing grains, oilseeds and pulses are looking grim in Western Canada. “Costs have come down […] Read more
Dutch says its UHS design has undergone field trials over the past two seasons on a number of different drills.
Crops, Equipment, Machinery

New Dutch Agriculture opener knife prevents seed burn

Wider fertilizer-to-seed spread reduces toxicity risk in dry conditions

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With drier growing conditions over many areas of the Prairies in the last couple of seasons, some growers applying high rates of fertilizer have been experiencing incidents of toxicity with seed. That problem has led some to look for different opener knives for their air drills that provide more seed-to-fertilizer separation. “We had customers come […] Read more
Agco marketing manager Mark Brungardt demonstrates the tire pressure adjustment system
Equipment, Machinery

Momentum planters offer features to reduce compaction, improve efficiency

Planters chosen for a 2025 AE50 engineering award for innovative technology

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In December the list of AE50 Award winners for 2025 was announced, and Agco won a few of them for its equipment. One of those machines garnering a prize was its relatively new Momentum planter. Every year the ASABE (the American Association of Agricultural and Biological Engineers) picks about 50 new products and machines that […] Read more
Ground Level: The power of seeing and the crutch of complexity
GrowPro

Ground Level: The power of seeing and the crutch of complexity

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“Seeing is believing” is a common cliché applicable to the adoption of technology in agriculture. Adoption rates of autosteer, sectional control and weigh cells in grain carts and air-seeder tanks are incredible. Auto guidance adoption, for example, was well above 50 per cent in the U.S. as of 2019 (McFadden et al., 2023). Nowadays, it […] Read more
solubility test
GrowPro

Field Notes: So what about solubility?

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While conducting my PhD studies over the past three years, I have been fortunate to do a deep study on phosphorus (P). It is a fascinating nutrient often characterized by a series of seemingly contrasting truths. For example, while it is considered a nutrient essential for all life, it can also act as a pollutant […] Read more
Elliott Hildebrand
GrowPro

Agronomist looks to give back to industry

Elliott Hildebrand sees a future for more intercropping and plant root simulator probes

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Like many kids who grow up on the farm, Elliott Hildebrand fell in love with agriculture when he was a child. When there wasn’t an opportunity to work on the farm as an adult, he pursued the next best thing — agronomy. Now he has his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in agronomy from the […] Read more

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