A new BASF fungicide employs three modes of action to combat disease in cereal crops, and it’s also registered for blackleg in canola. “It gives you excellent control of all the major leaf diseases in Western Canada, for your wheat, your barley, and your oats,” said Glen Forster of BASF. Nexicor has a group 3, […] Read more
New fungicide uses triple to fight threats
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Bin monitor makes money
If you save a 13,000 bushel bin of $12 canola, worth $156,000, you have more than paid for the price of a good monitoring system. That’s the conclusion Yorkton farmer Siegert Wenning arrived at last winter while vacationing in his homeland of Holland. Wenning grows 4,500 acres of canola, peas and oats annually. While in […] Read more
Kinze continues tuning its tillage tools
Mach Till cuts and throws soil at an angle to avoid creating a smear or compaction lay
Tillage technology continues to evolve as farmers move toward precisely controlled cultivation. That process took another step forward when Kinze introduced four new devices, spotlighting hybrid horizontal tillage. Vertical tillage was the big buzzword in field preparation a decade ago. Although most manufacturers still build vertical tillage machines, hybrid horizontal tillage is the latest step […] Read more
Silage offers livestock producers flexible feeding options
Silage is an efficient method of storing winter feed supplies and those who faced a feed shortage this spring might be considering it as an option even if they’ve never done it before. Dwayne Summach, livestock and feed extension specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, explained the basics of silage at a webinar held earlier this year. […] Read more
Goats make this Alberta farm a lively place
On the Farm: Chris Grab started with the Nigerian Dwarf breed in 1997 and later added registered Nubians to her flock
LEDUC, Alta. — Chris Grab enters her goat pen and is quickly surrounded by a welcoming committee of does and kids. The rambunctious Nigerian Dwarfs and larger, lop-eared Nubians rub and nudge for attention. They are personable, entertaining and friendly. Grab, who raises and sells the miniature breed as well as the larger Nubian goats […] Read more
Mussel inspectors make first catch of the year
Last year about 30,000 boats and watercraft were inspected at Alberta’s borders
Alta. resumes efforts to keep invasive mussels out of province’s waterways, where they can damage irrigation equipment
A boat heading for Alberta’s Ghost Reservoir May 6, en route from Lake Winnipeg, carried nasty cargo. Invasive mussels were stuck to its hull, the very type of destructive pest that Alberta is keen to avoid and has taken steps to intercept. Boat inspectors at the Dunmore station east of Medicine Hat spotted the mussels […] Read moreFirm finds way to make digital farming pay off
Farmers can help simplify their decision making process by bringing all farm information into one program
Decisive Farming is a business built at the intersection of product traceability and precision farming. “This is really a way for a farmer to get ahead of the curve on having really good digital records on the farm, and being able to share them efficiently across that supply chain so that they’re able to capture […] Read more
Mega surprise on mega ag mergers
You know there’s something up when you give farmers the chance to complain about grain companies and they don’t take it. I had that experience recently when I ran a Twitter poll asking farmers about their experiences with grain companies and whether that relationship had gotten worse in recent years. To my surprise few farmers […] Read more
On-farm grain stocks higher, says StatsCan report
Rail delays this winter and unfavourable market conditions are said to be the factors behind the higher stocks
Stocks of major crops in storage on prairie farms stood at nearly 29 million tonnes as of March 31, according to Statistics Canada’s Stocks of Grain and Oilseeds report, released May 11. That number included nearly 4.8 million tonnes in storage on Manitoba farms, 14.1 million tonnes in Saskatchewan and 10.2 million tonnes in Alberta. […] Read more
