AgGronomyTV: Hitting 300 bushels per acre of corn
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AgGronomyTV: Hitting 300 bushels per acre of corn

At Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show in September, one of the crop plots at the Maizex booth was dialled in for a specific goal: 300 bu per acre of corn. Here, Henry Prinzen, agronomy lead with Maizex Seeds for Ontario, talks about what their team did in order to reach that target and how accessible a […] Read more






Shelby LaRose, crop nutrition product manager with Nutrien Ag Solutions, says field testing and grower education are key. PHOTO: Don Norman

Biologicals, biostimulants make way into Prairie crop plans

But with more companies entering the biologicals and biostimulant space, Prairie growers are being urged to look past the hype and dig into the data

Biologcials and biostimulants are gaining traction, but experts say Prairie grain growers still need to ask hard questions and look for data that backs up companies’ claims.

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Powdery mildew can be combine fire risk

Dust from the disease can ignite to cause combine fires; producers advised to frequently clean their equipment

Depending on the crop, powdery mildew may not be much of a yield killer for grain growers — but dust from the fungal disease can build up to cause fires in combines.


AgCanadaTV: Your Agriculture News Recap for September 26, 2025
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AgCanadaTV: Your Agriculture News Recap for September 26, 2025

Bunge-Viterra deal alarms global think tank A Russia-based think-tank says the Bunge-Viterra merger in Canada will cost other grain exporting countries at least $2.5 billion annually. It called for an inquiry into the global grain trade and “cartel-like activity” of some traders. The BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre looked at four elements of economic […] Read more

Canola in flower in a field near Stockholm, Saskatchewan in late July, 2024. | Greg Berg photo

Editor’s Rant: Over/underwhelmed

Whether existing ag programs fit the bill or not, expect the feds to try to shoehorn problems into them

Successive federal governments have been working to get out of the ad-hoc farm payment business — so whether existing programs fit the bill or not, it’s unsurprising when the feds try to shoehorn problems into one or more of those.