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Two photos side-by-side showing the soil compaction generated by grain carts on tracks, on the left, and tires, on the right.
Crop Management, Machinery

Supersized grain carts a weighty problem for soil compaction

Larger grain carts and combines make for a more efficient harvest, but they also come with soil health implications if the extra weight causes soil compaction

Grain carts can still cause serious soil compaction whether they’re on tracks or wheels, but Scott Shearer’s research at Ohio State indicates less of a yield hit with tracks compared to wheels in unfavourable soil conditions. Here are some tips to reduce compaction risk.
Canola seed is visible when the access door is removed from a steel grain bin.
Opinion, Tariffs

Are China’s tariffs on Canadian canola oil and meal a ruse?

Canadian farmers are getting dour news on the future of canola prices, but real data might not back up the scope of tariff-driven market chaos everyone is worried about

Canadian farmers are getting dour news on the future of canola prices, but real data might not back up the scope of tariff-driven market chaos everyone is worried about
A young male farmer wearing a cowboy hat looks at a laptop resting on the hood of a vehicle.
Farm Living

Farm success requires solving the growth formula

Growth is possible for individual farms if they address three significant factors: capital, risk and execution

The current speed and cost of farm consolidation might have farmers wondering if growth will be possible for their operation.
Brady Vucurevich rolling barley in Stirling Alta., last June.
Crop Management

Timing land rolling can improve yields

Study finds yield losses for wheat and barley when these crops are land rolled in the two-node stage

Carlo Van Herk, field operations lead at the Farming Smarter Association in Lethbridge, supervised research on the best time to roll cereal crops.
Saskatchewan Roughriders' head coach Corey Mace burns the brand as Canadian Western Agribition 2024 kicked off in Regina Monday. | Melissa Jeffers-Bezan photo
News, Video

VIDEO: Burning of the brand kicks off Canadian Western Agribition

The burning of the brand Monday, Nov. 25 marked the ceremonial kick-off for the 53rd annual Canadian Western Agribition. Corey Mace, head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders put the branding iron to the board to officially open the event. President Michael Latimer, federal agriculture minister Lawrence MacAulay and provincial agriculture minister Daryl Harrison were among […] Read more
Crop Management, News

Man. crop almost harvested

Harvest operations across Manitoba are nearly complete, with only sunflowers and corn left to come off the fields, according to the latest provincial crop report for the week ended Oct. 22. The total harvest hit 95 per cent complete, with the majority of fall field work also finished. Of the major crops, an estimated one […] Read more
Alberta, Crop Management

Alberta farmers nearly ready to wrap up another harvest

Province’s sugar beet crop is the least advanced, but other crops, such as wheat and canola, are almost all in the bin

Harvest operations in Alberta are virtually complete, the province’s most recent crop report said. Combining advanced three points to 99 per cent finished as of Oct. 22 as well as being three points above the five-year average. The province’s south, central and Peace regions wrapped up their harvests, while the northeast and northwest reached 97 […] Read more

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