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A tomato harvest from planter boxes in Winnipeg.
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Tomatoes and onions in gardens everywhere

Part 7 of a series: On all farms, tomatoes should go into ground not previously used for tomatoes

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Tomatoes Tomatoes originated in South America from wild plants with grape-sized fruit. They were developed by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. They were first brought to Europe in the 1540s, to Italy in particular by the 1550s. North Americans were slow to pick up on tomatoes, regarding them as poisonous until almost the year […] Read more
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Enhanced efficiency fertilizers must pay off

The potential yield gain isn’t enough to entice farmers, soil scientist says

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Glacier FarmMedia — Enhanced efficiency fertilizers work. They might even be able to pay for themselves. But right now the bottom line impact is too unclear for a lot of farmers to embrace them, University of Manitoba soil scientist Mario Tenuta acknowledged during a discussion at St. Jean Farm Days last month in St. Jean […] Read more
Traders are seen focusing on a handful of key countries including Brazil, India, the U.S. and China to gauge the global urea market.
Crops, Features, Markets

Get urea booked sooner rather than later, trader says

Farmers will want to lock in supplies before seasonal demand kicks in

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Glacier FarmMedia – The global urea market is in a period of mixed signals. Buyers in Australia and Southeast Asia made purchases in early January, putting upward pressure on prices. Plus, stocks in North America are relatively low, which is also supportive. On the other side of the coin, China may delay exports until the […] Read more
Figure 5. A crop of Herta, an old two-row barley variety, in northeastern Saskatchewan’s Carrot River valley, with potassium added at left.
Columns

Potash fertilizer: Time for another look

Expect consequences if we keep hauling away more K than we apply

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When the three Prairie provinces established provincial soil test laboratories in the 1960s, that was the start of a real advance in learning about potassium (K) as an essential plant nutrient. Until then it was not much of an issue, as many experiments showed no field crop response. With many thousands of farm field soil […] Read more
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Crops, General

FCC announces new 4R incentive

The program is open to FCC customers who use AgExpert platform

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FCC announced the new Sustainability Incentive Program at the Western Canadian Crop Production Show in Saskatoon. The program is open to FCC customers who put a 4R nutrient management plan in place, record production activities through AgExpert Field, and have their 4R practices verified by a 4R designated agronomist.
FuelPositive's highly efficient proprietary ammonia separator is one component of its green ammonia production system.
Features

On-farm green ammonia production

Manitoba farmers set to try new ag-tech innovation from FuelPositive

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Manitoba farmers Curtis and Tracy Hiebert, like many Prairie producers, rely on anhydrous ammonia for much of their fertilizer needs. Squeezed by ongoing price hikes and supply shortages in the anhydrous ammonia market, they decided to try something new — to produce it themselves, right on their own farm. That’s possible, thanks to some cutting-edge […] Read more

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