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A researcher collects samples from feedlot cattle to track bovine respiratory disease. PHOTO: TEXAS A&M

Newly funded Canadian beef research aims for sector improvements

Nine beef research projects funded through the Beef Cattle Research Council will tackle stock health issues, feed efficiency and food safety

By Miranda Leybourne February 13, 2025

Nine new projects have received a collective $1.43 million in funding through the Beef Cattle Research Council’s next call for study proposals. The projects are also backed by more than $3.1 million from additional sources, the organization has said.

Crops, Features

Herbicide researchers pick new fights

Different modes of action may overcome a lull in herbicide discovery

By Don Norman February 5, 2025

Herbicide development has slowed in recent years, but innovative research methods could soon drive significant progress in the field. For decades, the pace of discovery of new modes of action — that is, how a herbicide interferes with the plant’s normal functions — was robust. From the 1950s through the 1980s, an average of one […] Read more

While the use of spray drones for chemical application is still illegal in Canada, research on how to use them efficiently and effectively is ongoing. | Screencap via vimeo.com/GuardianAg

General, Machinery

Crop Production Show 2025: Spray drone research continues

By Janelle Rudolph January 16, 2025

While the use of spray drones for chemical application is still illegal in Canada, research on how to use them efficiently and effectively is ongoing.

Crops, News, Reuters

COMMENT: Fertile land for growing vegetables is at risk — but a scientific discovery could turn the tide

By The Conversation via Reuters Connect January 14, 2025

Research work at Quebec's Laval University's Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, carried out in partnership with 14 vegetable farms, offers hope for ensuring the sustainability of their soils.

GrowPro

Field Notes: So what about solubility?

By Blake Weiseth December 20, 2024

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

File photo of a lentil crop before harvest in Saskatchewan. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)

General, News, Pulses

Saskatchewan Pulse Growers invest in weed research

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 11, 2024

The Saskatchewan Pulse Growers have announced plans to invest $3.67 million in five new weed science research projects.

File photo of Rabobank’s office building in Utrecht. (Rabobank.com)

Canola, Corn, Markets, News, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Raboresearch delivers fall agricultural outlook

By Adam Peleshaty November 15, 2024

Raboresearch delivered its fall harvest outlook in an online presentation on Nov. 13, 2024. Analysts showed their insights for the 2025-26 marketing year, including those for Canadian farmers.

Dry matter intakes, finished weights, average daily gains and gain:feed of steers fed a standard barley-based control diet were not statistically different from those of the steers fed any of the three corn diets in a recent comparison study.

Corn Production Guide, Finishers, Guides

Corn in western Canadian feedlot diets

The production risk still must be bred out of Prairie-grown corn before it can reach its full potential in feedlots

By Reynold Bergen October 25, 2024

Corn acreage is expanding across Canada. There are about 25 acres of corn for every acre of barley in Ontario and Quebec, where temperatures, day length and moisture allow predictable corn yields and feed quality. There are around eight acres of barley for every acre of corn in the Prairies, although ambitious breeding efforts are […] Read more

Canola, Features

How broccoli may give canola traits a bump

Traits from related brassica species may improve canola diversity

By Jeff Melchior June 25, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – There’s little doubt that canola is a powerhouse crop. Nationwide, it covered nearly 22.1 million acres last year, more than 99 per cent of it on the Prairies. The Canola Council of Canada puts its economic contribution at nearly $30 billion a year. A University of Alberta researcher, backed by the Natural […] Read more

How should growers and agronomists interpret the gigabytes, even terabytes, of ag data available?

Equipment, Features

How to deal with the farm data deluge

The growers have all the data, but do they necessarily use it?

By Ralph Pearce May 22, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — The launch of the first GPS yield monitors altered the world of on-farm data collection. That was followed by variable-rate technology, precision planting and aerial/satellite imaging. Most growers have now been accumulating data for 20 years or longer — and many have resolved to keep that data in the hopes of finding […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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