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Cereals, Cereals Production Guide, Editor's column, Guides

Editor’s Rant: The price tag on progress

Points to ponder as a seed company announces a hybrid wheat breakthrough

By Dave Bedard January 4, 2025

All things considered, the announcement is more of a surprise than it should have been. Corteva Agriscience in mid-November said it’s made a “revolutionary breakthrough” with which it expects to produce hybrid hard red winter wheat for the North American market “as early as 2027” and add other hybrid wheats to the product line over […] Read more

A field of canola being grown for hybrid seed, with orange shelters for leafcutter bees in the background.

Canola, Features

Hybrid seed doesn’t just happen

Aside from initial research and development to create a variety, a lot of detail goes into the annual production of hybrid seed

By Lee Hart September 26, 2024

With the cost of hybrid canola seed being the No. 1 expense in producing the oilseed crop, Prairie farmers can have confidence knowing each of the 4.25 million canola seeds in a 50-pound bag was produced with care and attention to quality control. That’s the commitment of long-time hybrid seed producers, HyTech Production Ltd., based […] Read more

Greg Stubbs, an agronomist with Corteva Agrisciences, at COFS 2024. Photo: Stew Slater

Crops

Corteva showcases new BMR silage varieties at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show 2024

By Stew Slater September 11, 2024

Corteva Agrisciences is showcasing its new Boltava brand of brown mid-rib silage corn hybrids at Canada's Outdoor Farm Show near Woodstock.

BY 6219TF, shown here at right in a display plot at Ag in Motion in July, is billed as a medium-maturity canola suitable for all growing season zones.

Canola, Canola Production Guide, Guides

New canola hybrids for 2025

Nineteen more options are on deck for Prairie canola producers

By Mark Halsall September 3, 2024

Looking for a new canola hybrid to plant? Nineteen are hitting the market next year, many of them featuring strong disease protection packages and improved pod shatter tolerance. Please note: the following list includes only brand-new hybrid releases for 2025. BASF InVigor L330PC is an early-maturing hybrid that comes with high yield potential and BASF’s […] Read more

New Holland's T4 Electric is likely to be among the first of many battery electric or hybrid machines to appear in the ag equipment market.

Equipment, Machinery

What the biggest players plan for powered equipment

Deere and CNH commit to more tech, electric and hybrid drives

By Scott Garvey February 16, 2024

The new powered farm machines parked on dealership lots in the coming decade are going to look a little different than they do now — at least under the hoods. That’s according to information released recently by two of the major manufacturers, John Deere and CNH Industrial, parent company to Case IH and New Holland. […] Read more

Edison Motors' CEO Chace Barber stands beside the company's first concept truck, a 1962 LW900 Kenworth converted to diesel-electric hybrid drive.

Machinery, Trucks and UTVs

B.C. company to offer hybrid conversions for farm trucks

Edison Motors pioneers the retrofit market for vocational heavy and light trucks

By Scott Garvey February 7, 2024

There’s an old saying that everything old is new again. When it comes to automotive and machinery design today, that seems to be true in spades. Diesel-electric equipment has been in use for decades, but until recently, that system had largely fallen out of favour with many equipment manufacturers, including heavy truck builders. “It’s weird,” […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

BASF halting hybrid wheat seed development in North America

Results 'have not achieved development goals we set'

By GFM Network News March 2, 2023

Reuters — Global chemicals and crop seeds company BASF is halting development of hybrid wheat in North America after results of seed trials failed to reach development goals, the company told Reuters on Wednesday. BASF will instead focus development of the new type of wheat in European markets, aiming to launch the technology there “toward […] Read more

Columns

Bison, buffalo and beefalo

A brief history of the North American bison and how its story almost ended in extinction

By Ieuan Evans July 13, 2022

What’s in a name? The big imposing animals that roamed the North American prairies and northern woodlands were called buffalo. Strictly speaking, buffalo are African and Asian cattle, distinct species from the North American and European animals. Technically and biologically speaking, our buffalo are not buffalo but bison. The North American Plains buffalo is classified […] Read more

Fall rye flowering in south-central Manitoba. (Allan Dawson photo)

Cereals, Crops, Weather

Rye in strong position going into 2022

By GFM Network News March 12, 2022

MarketsFarm — Last summer’s drought sharply reduced yields of many crops across the Prairies, leaving multiple supply challenges and rising prices in the aftermath. Western Canadian rye, however, was largely left unscathed, which may bode well for the crop heading into 2022. Rye production came in at 473,000 tonnes for 2021-22, according to Statistics Canada […] Read more

Alberta Crop Report: Higher-than-average yields expected

U.S. livestock: Tight cattle supply helps CME futures rebound from collapse

U.S. grains: Soy futures post weekly loss on expectations for big U.S. crop

GFM Network News