Crop Management
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Crop Management
Refining artificial intelligence data
Service connects farm data from disparate sources to help companies use it to develop and improve digital ag products
Microsoft's Azure Data Manager connects farm data from disparate sources to help companies use the information to develop and improve their digital ag products.
Multispectral cameras power variable rate applications
Augmenta controls VR granular and liquid applications in real time; the roof-mounted camera analyzes crop conditions
Augmenta is a cab-mounted system with five 4K multispectral cameras, each working in a different wavelength. Artificial intelligence analyzes the plants then makes real time VR instructions that control the application of liquid and solid nutrients, plant growth regulators, fungicides, desiccants and defoliants.
Cover crops may have potential to lower yields
Researchers have found the effect cover crops have on primary crops depends on the environment and how they are used
Recent research has shown that cover cropping could lower crop yields and lead to negative environmental impacts caused by expanded cultivation necessary to make up for those yield losses.
Should I spray or should I go?
Deciding on a fungicide application to control mycosphaerella blight (aka ascochyta blight) in field peas can be difficult. Many variables are at play, including disease occurrence, product selection, application timing, single versus double treatments, application costs and potential returns on investment. To help, a fungicide decision worksheet is available to take some of the guesswork […] Read more
Slow down, up the volume, reduce the pressure
A spraying specialist weighs in on how producers can achieve effective deep canopy coverage while applying fungicides
In Agrimetrix research conducted in chickpeas and field peas, water volume was the most important factor associated with good canopy penetration.
Seeking sources of pea root rot resistance
Pea breeders are heading back to U.S. and French roots in search of genes for durable resistance against aphanomyces
Greenhouse testing at the University of Saskatchewan has shown that several pea varieties have partial resistance. But those results come with a large asterisk: indoor conditions are very different from field conditions.
Risk evaluation app predicts lentil disease
Growers are tempted to shorten their rotation because of high profit potential but the biggest enemy of lentils is aphanomyces root rot. Its spores can remain viable in the soil for a decade or longer.
New fungicide tackles resistance in pulses
Kirsten Ratzlaff of Corteva said the company’s new active ingredient, adavelt, is a florylpicoxamid/FRAC group 21 and the first broad-spectrum picolinamide fungicide for use against ascomycota pathogens.
Killing pea leaf weevils with ‘trap crops’
Meghan Vankosky, an Agriculture Canada entomologist, had an idea to attract adult weevils to a trap crop, then kill the pests with an insecticide or an insecticide alternative. That would reduce the number of pea leaf weevils that over-winter on the Prairies.
