spent fertilizer urea capsules

ESN helps keep single shoot drill out in the field longer

Fertilizer technology allows farmers to make one pass, putting all the 
nitrogen in the seed row at once, and also realizing higher protein values

Dale Wyatt hasn’t become a wholesale convert to ESN fertilizer on his southern Alberta farm, but so far it has allowed him to continue a one-pass direct seeding operation with cereals with his existing single shoot drill, and the controlled release fertilizer has definitely bumped up the protein level in spring wheat. Wyatt, who along […] Read more

stubble soil moisture map of the Canadian prairies

Stubble soil moisture map

Les Henry’s annual stubble soil moisture map shows, for the most part,
an overall rise in the water table across the Prairie region

The situation as of freezeup 2014, brought a few changes. My red pencil was not used even in Alberta and “super wet” is back as it was in 2010 and 2012. “Super wet” is for areas that had significant rains on top of that needed to bring the entire soil profile to “field capacity.” The […] Read more