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Stony soil surface of an eroded knoll.
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Ground Level: Mapping and managing eroded knolls

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How do we identify an eroded knoll? Eroded knolls lose soil organic matter due to years of tillage, wind and water erosion, which results in surface soil lacking good granular structure and thin to non-existent topsoil. When erosion occurs, it has different physical, chemical and biological characteristics. Some physical characteristics of an eroded soil can […] Read more
Tom Wolf discusses spot sprayers during the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon.
Equipment, Machinery

Moving spot spraying forward means building algorithms

Advanced spraying systems have benefits, but also have costs a farmer must consider

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Glacier FarmMedia — Spot spraying isn’t a new idea, and the equipment capable of selective application has been around for decades — but the technology that supports this approach is advancing. Tom Wolf, an application specialist with Agrimetrix Research and Training and Sprayers101, recently shared some of the new research, technology developments and application techniques […] Read more
Ground Level: The power of seeing and the crutch of complexity
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Ground Level: The power of seeing and the crutch of complexity

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“Seeing is believing” is a common cliché applicable to the adoption of technology in agriculture. Adoption rates of autosteer, sectional control and weigh cells in grain carts and air-seeder tanks are incredible. Auto guidance adoption, for example, was well above 50 per cent in the U.S. as of 2019 (McFadden et al., 2023). Nowadays, it […] Read more
photo of cory willness and les henry
Crops

The legacy of Henry’s Handbook

A book well known to Grainews readers will remain available

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Les Henry is a former professor and extension specialist for the University of Saskatchewan, a farmer, and a regular contributor of print and online articles and columns for Grainews for the past 37 years. He is also the author of Henry’s Handbook of Soil and Water. Today, we are pleased to announce that Henry has […] Read more
This photo of a field sprayer outfitted with two cameras on the boom is an example of a new service being introduced by Croptimistic Technology this year called SWAT Cams. As the sprayer travels over the crop, the cameras will take pictures every 50 feet. The images are analyzed by software and used to show the amount of biomass cover over every acre. The variation in ground cover will be of value in making management decisions about increasing or decreasing inputs, such as seeding and fertility rates.
Equipment, Features

Crop pictures worth a few thousand footsteps

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Croptimistic Technology, based out of Naicam, Sask., perhaps better known by its SWAT Maps brand name, is launching two new services in 2022 to make it easier and more affordable to map the soil and topography of the whole farm, and then literally view every acre of the crop during the growing season.  SWAT Cams […] Read more

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