Whether in the newspaper or on producer.com, it would have been hard to miss our coverage of the crop tour held by FarmLink Solutions this past week. At The Western Producer, we believe strongly in the value of knowing. Just as we are big believers in remote sensing, ground truthing proves what we believe to […] Read more
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Regional crop tour — global attention
Estimates surprise Sask. farmers
The tillers farmers typically don’t want in their fields may actually boost cereal crop yields in Saskatchewan’s northeast this year. Multiple fields observed on last week’s GrainWorld crop tour, organized by FarmLink Solutions, showed tillers taller than main stems and carrying similar numbers of spikelets and seeds. “We saw this all day yesterday,” said Derek […] Read more
Plant-based protein craze makes strong case for R & D
Costco is a great window into consumer trends. It’s where food trends that I read and write about become real to me, in a big way, as I wander the aisles. If it’s being carried at Costco, that means not only is a product being manufactured in industrial quantities, but Costco has assessed consumer demand […] Read more
There are lots of ways to protect our skin from the sun
As we enjoy summer, we want to protect our skin from the damaging effects of the elements. The skin protects our bodies from the outside world and is a mirror of our inner health. This is why when we get a sunburn we feel sore, swelled, tired and inflamed. There are ways to protect ourselves. […] Read more
Brandt offers new and improved
Regina company uses Canada’s Farm Progress Show to kick off a large launch of belts, carts and new tools
REGINA — Five new products released at one show “was a lot of new stuff. But these were needs in the marketplace, things farmers were asking for.” Taylor de Gooijer of Brandt Industries said the number of new products that his company brought out at Regina’s Farm Progress Show kept the short-line company’s staff busy, […] Read more
Sulfur can hold the limit on a crop’s potential
This week, the “nutrient back to the basics” series will discuss the secondary nutrient — sulfur. For much of the world, sulfur has been considered of secondary interest compared to nitrogen, phosphate and potassium. However, as organic matter was depleted and canola, which is a very heavy user of sulfur, grew in popularity, sulfur deficiencies […] Read more
Optical sorters: higher volume, greater accuracy
Optical colour sorters have been employed in the delicate task of kicking bad seeds out of high-value pulse crops for about two decades. But now they do so much more. “The technology has really advanced in the past five years. They’re bigger and they handle more volume faster than before. The hardware and software are […] Read more
Spring seeding progress ahead of schedule amid worsening drought
Farmers in Saskatchewan are on the homeward stretch of their busy spring seeding season. According to the most recent weekly crop report from Saskatchewan Agriculture, the province’s growers had nearly three quarters of their acres seeded as of May 20. With mostly clear weather expected to continue through to the end of the month and […] Read more
Ag Canada predicts huge increase in canola ending stocks
Winnipeg – Canadian canola carryout stocks are forecast to rise to a record 5.300 million tonnes by the end of the 2019/20 (Aug/Jul) marketing year, more than doubling the previous five-year average, according to updated estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis division. While the agency expects total canola production to decline to 18.900 […] Read more
Canola acres take hit in seeding plans
King Wheat will likely reign on the Prairies again this year, with farmers ready to return to the oft-disparaged crop. However, it’s not much of a triumph for wheat, but rather a defensive choice for farmers trying to cut risk and wait out market storms. “A lot of people are cutting back on their canola […] Read more
