
Tag Archives Soils and Crops

Les Henry: Crop Week offers a good mid-winter break
Saskatoon’s annual winter farm show offers a chance to see old friends and new tech

Les Henry’s stubble soil moisture map, as of Nov. 1, 2018
There’s more red ink (dry areas) than we’d like to see on this year’s map

In response to, ‘Cover crops and green manure’
Clearing up a tillage misunderstanding from a previous column

Finally, soil moisture measuring meets new tech
A map of soil moisture at freeze-up can give you a good indication of your yield potential

Farming from plough to now
From mining the nutrients to zero-till farming, with ups and downs on the way

Catalogue houses: the Foursquare house
Ordered by mail and delivered by train, catalogue houses helped settle the Prairies

Combines I have known, Part 3
In the third part of an ongoing series on combines, Les Henry goes for the green paint

Cover crops and green manure
In the Palliser Triangle, cover crops aren’t the answer in a dry cycle

Water monitoring: dull but necessary
Keeping track of all of the numbers is still necessary for decision making

Carbon: the mega plant nutrient
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon dioxide? CO2 is at the heart of crop production