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pea crop
Features, Peas

Up seed rate to add pea yield

Prairie researchers looks at the costs and benefits of combinations 
of four pea input treatments. Try their results on your farm

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While individual aspects of field pea production have been researched, combined agronomic factors have not been evaluated simultaneously before. Led by Laryssa Grenkow, research manager at Western Applied Research Corporation, a team of researchers, including Eric Johnson, Anne Kirk, Stewart Brandt, Sherrilyn Phelps, Chris Holzapfel and Bryan Nybo, determined which agronomic practices contribute most to […] Read more
root rot in a pea plant
Features, Lentils, Peas

Minimizing the impact of Aphanomyces

There are no in-crop solutions to root rot in peas and lentils. But there 
are ways to minimize your risk of losing yield to Aphanomyces

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Given the wet springs and dry summers we’ve seen in recent years, Aphanomyces euteiches — Aphanomyces root rot — has become a real problem for pea and lentil growers. First confirmed in Saskatchewan in 2012 and then in Alberta in 2013, the disease has been slowly creeping across the country, destroying crops in its wake. Making […] Read more
canola crop
Canola, Crops

When you have to broadcast seed canola

Broadcasting seeding is always a last resort for canola growers. But if you have to do it, here are some suggestions to increase your odds of getting decent yields

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Typically, broadcast seeding in canola is considered questionable at best. But it comes to mind when weather causes delays. “Broadcast seeding is acceptable as a last resort late in the seeding season under wet conditions,” says Murray Hartman, oilseed specialist with Alberta Agriculture. “Wet soil can plug up openers and packer wheels, and the seedbed […] Read more
Murray Hartman, Alberta Agriculture oilseed specialist, talks to farmers at a Lethbridge field day about proper practices for producing canola.
Crops, Features

Many hazards to seed survival

Want to increase your seed survival rates? Find out what these experts say

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Like most things in life, there is no simple answer to what causes seed not to germinate or the seedling to die before it gets out of the ground. Alberta’s AgTech Centre in Lethbridge has been looking at mechanical factors such as seed placement, seeding depth and seeding speed as likely suspects playing a role […] Read more
monosem vacuum crop planter
Canola

Seeding canola with planters

Two Westlock, Alberta farmers had a good harvest and saved costs after 
seeding their canola with a corn planter last spring

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In 2014, two Westlock, Alberta, farmers cut their canola seed costs by $40 per acre by seeding with corn planters. They saw no yield loss. Is this the new way to go? At a Westlock seminar last winter, agronomist Geoff Doell of GROWTH Agrinomics Inc. told farmers that seeding canola using a precision vacuum corn […] Read more
It’s a lot of tedious work to looking into seed survival by digging into a seed row after seeding to count seeds, measuring spacing between seeds and confirming seed depth.
Canola

Seed survival still stumps

Seed killer still at large. Several suspects behind high mortality, but no arrests

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What’s killing those canola seeds before a seedling can get out of the ground? That could very well be a 64 million or perhaps billion dollar answer for Prairie farmers looking at seed priced at about $10 per pound and anywhere from a 20 to 50 per cent seed mortality rate. But you can’t necessarily […] Read more
farm equipment seeding canola
Canola, Columns

What’s the word on the street

Home from his trip to Farm Tech in Edmonton, Brian Wittal shares his insights 
from the conference hallways and his forecast for 2015 seeded canola acres


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Having just returned from the FarmTech conference in Edmonton I thought it would be a good time to pass on to you some of my insights from the sessions and networking over the three days. After taking in three different grain market outlook sessions I came away with a broad range of information from three […] Read more
flooded farmland
Crops, Features

Friendly Acres’ 2014 wrap up

Regular Grainews contributor Kevin Elmy sums up 2014 at his east-central Saskatchewan farm

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I am tired of rubber boots. This was Year 5 of well-above-growing-season rainfall. May started off with lots of water. The plan was to seed soybeans, grazing corn, a grain corn trial, brown mustard, spring triticale and cover crops. By the end of May, we had seeded 600 acres of soybeans, 1/3 of an acre […] Read more
Five tips to get your seed off to the right start
Crops, Features

Five tips to get your seed off to the right start

Seed growth specialist Nick Petruic has 5 tips for getting your seed off to the right start

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Nick Petruic is a seed growth specialist for Bayer, based at Avonlea, Sask. He likes to remind his customers that it doesn’t matter how much nitrogen you’ve put on or how weed-free your field is if your seed doesn’t get out of the ground. Petruic has five tips for getting your seed off to the […] Read more

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