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Crops, Features

Future seeds were sown in the past

Consider last year’s crop yields when making plans for next year’s fertility program

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This time of year it’s typically a good idea to remind producers that the seeds of our future are sown in the past. Your 2016 crop yields will be influenced by 2015 fertility and removal rates. Basically, we need to look back at the growing season and see how certain factors influenced the current crop, […] Read more
Marcel van Staveren (left), shown here along with his harvest crew, has already planned out most of his acres for 2016.
Crops, News

Seeding decisions made, now waiting for spring

Farmers planning to hold their rotations steady with no major swings

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Now that combines are shut down for the season, western Canadian farmers have a pretty good idea of what they will be growing in 2016, say producers contacted for the November Farmer Panel. They all plan to leave a bit of room for last-minute decisions — depending on markets and spring seeding conditions — but […] Read more
This new, model 4955 air cart, a 950-bushel version that tops out the 5 Series line, is equipped with the unique, ground-level canola loading feature.
Machinery

Case IH debuts new 5 Series air carts

Seeding Equipment: Design for the brand's new, expanded line up is based on input from its customers

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Walking around Case IH’s new 950-bushel air cart during an open house at the CNH training facility in Saskatoon in June, Dan Klein, the company’s crop production marketing manager, explains all the models in the new 5 Series line represent a complete redesign. And their features are the result of extensive customer input, which involved […] Read more
New Holland has also released a version of the new air carts, calling theirs the P Series.
Machinery

New Holland offers its version of the new air carts

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Back in mid-January, New Holland issued a press release announcing the introduction of blue versions of the new air carts being built at the CNH facility in Saskatoon. CNH is the parent company of both Case IH and New Holland. NH calls their carts the P Series and will also offer seven models. The blue […] Read more
Kinze planter system
Machinery

Kinze’s Multi-Hybrid planter switches between two hybrid seed types

Farmers can now order a model 4990 Multi-Hybrid planter

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This spring the first commercially produced Kinze model 4900 Multi-Hybrid planters will hit North American farm fields. The company announced last August that a limited number of planters with the ability to switch back and forth between two hybrid seed types would be available for the 2015 season. And a company rep says the firm […] Read more
view of wet farmland from above
Cereals, Crops

Mother Nature, as usual, holds all the cards for farmers

Farmers are optimistic about the growing season, as long as
 the weather doesn’t tip too far either way

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While the spring seeding outlook was generally good as of late April, farmers in different parts of the Prairies described being close to feast-or-famine conditions as they planned to get the 2015 crop in the ground. Producers from mid-Saskatchewan and east were hopeful about getting the crop in as long as it didn’t rain, while […] Read more
ESN nitrogen on a field
Columns, Crops

Proper nitrogen application for your crop

Researchers and farmers have worried about the 4Rs of fertilizer for decades. The answers are not the same for everyone

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In recent years there has been a great deal of hype about the 4Rs when planning fertilizer use: right source, right rate, right time and right placement. The first Grainews column I penned was in October 1976: “Nitrogen — when, what kind and how much to apply.” Back then, phosphorus was seed placed and nitrogen […] Read more
crop planter
Machinery

Kinze adds meter electric-drive to its 3660 planters

12- and 16-row model 3660 planters coming soon with electric meter drives

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Getting accurate seed spacing is particularly important for corn crops, according to agronomists. But several components in a planter’s mechanical drive system, such as worn or rusty drive chains, can potentially cause problems with spacing accuracy. The trend today among many manufacturers is to offer electric drive systems as an option to eliminate that problem. […] Read more

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