tilling implement

Terminating your forage crops

There are many reasons to take forage crops out of production, and also many ways to do it

Brian Nybo is a researcher with the Wheatland conservation area in Swift Current, Sask., and also a farmer. He’s been researching the best ways to take forage crops out of production, and has set up a demonstration at the research station near Swift Current. “It can be fairly difficult,” he told farmers at the Agri-ARM […] Read more

tilled rows in a field

Tillage: not always a dirty word

Moisture cycles change over time. It’s not a crime for soil management practices to change too

When soil-incorporated herbicides were all the rage, tillage was the main operation on many farms. For some granular soil-applied herbicides, the recommendation was to cultivate several inches deep at high speed and to go over it twice at right angles. In the best black soils it was not uncommon to hear farmers say they had […] Read more