Crop Management
La Nina is hanging around longer than anticipated, and that is good news for western Canadian grain farmers. It will likely force the North American storm further north, causing spring storms to be routed through British Columbia rather than northern California, said David Streit, chief operating officer of Commodity Weather Group. “With that storm track […] Read more
Crop Management
Sask. crop insurance deadline extended
Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. has extended the deadline to enrol in or make changes for 2022. In a March 14 news release, agriculture minister David Marit and federal minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said they had added two weeks to the deadline because of supply chain concerns. “Due to logistical challenges because of the ongoing supply-chain issues […] Read more
Argentina halts export registration for soy oil, meal
BUENOS AIRES, March 14 (Reuters) – Argentina has halted registration of export sales of soy oil and meal, the South American country’s government said in a statement on Sunday, drawing swift condemnation from the industry in the world’s top exporter of processed soy products. The move stops sales and exports of the 2021/22 crop, but […] Read more
Brazil farmers sow 94 percent of second corn as ideal climate window draws to a close
SAO PAULO, March 14 (Reuters) – Brazilian farmers in the Center South had sown 94 percent of their second corn area through the end of last week, agribusiness consultancy AgRural said on Monday, as growers rush to plant their crop within the ideal climate window. This marks a 20 percentage point increase for sown area […] Read more
CP employees on brink of strike
A strike by rail workers at Canadian Pacific Railway would have a “potentially disastrous” impact on the country’s economy and could compromise agricultural productivity, according to Canada’s commercial fertilizer industry. In a March 11 news release, Fertilizer Canada called on the Teamster’s Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) and CPR to “swiftly resolve their negotiations to avoid […] Read more
War may not cause big wheat acre jump
A 50 to 60 percent increase in global wheat prices might not be enough to entice growers in Western Canada to plant a lot more of the crop this spring, according to some farmers and analysts. “For me, I won’t be changing anything, and I’d say that’s probably 75 percent of farms,” said Stephen Vandervalk, […] Read more
The future of resistance is unfolding now
Herbicide resistance will require canola growers to use more broadly-based approaches for weed control
Controlling weeds in prairie fields is about to get a whole lot more complicated, according to a weed management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. In a recent presentation, Kim Brown-Livingston suggested the days of depending solely on chemical herbicides to control weeds is nearing an end. “We’ve had it fairly easy in the last little while,” […] Read more
Researchers hope to make wheat more efficient
Global Institute for Food Security eyes naturally occurring genetic variations that improve nitrogen, phosphorus uptake
A recent explosion in wheat genomic data could improve phosphorus and nitrogen uptake as well as efficiency in bread wheat. As the cost of fertilizers increases, having new varieties is good news for wheat growers to get better returns on their inputs while providing significant environmental value. Researchers at the Global Institute for Food Security […] Read more
No bin load cells? No problem, get that weight anyway
Strain gauges can be used, along with some computer programming and a bunch of smart data processing can tell what you have there
A French company can install a IoT (internet of things)-based product-measuring system into grain bins with legs within half an hour. Nanolike installs strain gauges into the legs of grain bins and then uses algorithms and artificial-intelligence based cloud computing to estimate the amount of product inside. A strain gauge is used to measure force […] Read more
New Holland puts sparkplugs back in a tractor
From diesel to methane, the shift for a new FPT design began with an ag-focused engine, but power source agnostic
Farmers will soon have access to cleaner and quieter tractors with the February launch of New Holland’s T6 Methane Power tractor during the World Ag Expo in California. The tractor’s new powerplant was built by FPT Industrial, which has a long history of collaboration with CNH Industrial. “FPT was part of CNH Industrial up until […] Read more
