Videos
Sept 15 – 30: Electrifying application
Cropzone is desiccating potatoes and oats with a high voltage tool that ruptures plants’ leaf and stem cells, terminating growth. The company demonstrated the equipment and technique near Outlook, Sask. in early September. | Western Producer / Robin Booker video
AGCanadaTV: In Case You Missed It – Your National Ag News Recap for the week ending September 16, 2022.
A mobile grain cleaner that’s keener
If you’ve needed to improve grain quality, grown an intercrop and need to separate the grains, or had an oops! in your storage bin back at the yard, chances are you’ve had your grain cleaned at some point. That likely means trucking your grain to a facility that offers grain cleaning services which will eat […] Read more
The cost of harvest loss
Calibrating your combine to field conditions is essential
Harvest is about to kick into high gear for many Prairie farmers as the race begins to get crops off of fields and into bins. But in that flurry of activity of operating equipment, co-ordinating people – and trying to hit that optimal weather window – are you taking time to minimize harvest loss? “One […] Read more
AGCanadaTV: In Case You Missed It – Your National Ag News Recap for the week ending September 9, 2022.
September 1 to 15: Cereal crop staging and seeding rates
In this video from the 2022 Crop Diagnostic School, Anne Kirk with Manitoba Agriculture talks about the ideal timing to apply a PGR and how to know what stage your cereal crop is at.
AgCanadaTV Special Feature: Pasture health indicators
Mae Elsinger, a rangeland and pasture biologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, shares six pasture health indicators forage growers can watch for to help ensure their grassland environment remains productive.
AgCanadaTV Special Feature: Pasture and grassland risks
Mae Elsinger, a rangeland and pasture biologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, discusses some of the risks to forage growth, using insects to manage weeds in pastures, and training cattle to eat spurge.
AGCanadaTV: In Case You Missed It – Your National Ag News Recap for the week ending August 19, 2022.
August 15 to 31: Mitigating sclerotinia in oilseed crops
Sclerotinia is most often found in commodity crops such as canola, sunflower, and dry edible beans. But when – and where – should Manitoba growers focus their attention if their crops become susceptible to the fungus? In this video from last month’s Crop Diagnostic School, David Kaminski with Manitoba Agriculture shows how a sclerotinia infection can find its way into your crop and what steps you can take to lessen the impact it can have on your yield.
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
