Crop Management
Producers must first decide what they will be using the crop for: grazing, silage, hay or part of a rotational plan
MONCTON, N.B. — Establishing a new forage crop the right way leads to more profitability. Producers must decide if the crop will be used for grazing, silage, hay or part of a rotational plan, said forage agronomist Kathleen Glover of Agriculture Canada. “These are all the decisions you need to make before you chose your […] Read more
Crop Management
Ottawa delays neonic decision to January
Health Canada was supposed to make a final decision on banning neonics in December. The decision has been pushed back to January. “Health Canada … proposed to cancel the majority of outdoor uses of all three neonicotinoids (because) of the risks to aquatic insects. Since then several new scientific papers have been published and the […] Read more
Australia canola crop down sharply from earlier forecast
Winnipeg, (MarketsFarm) – Australia’s canola crop will be much smaller than originally thought, with further reductions possible, according to the latest estimate from the Australian Oilseeds Federation (AOF). Total canola production in the country is now forecast at 1.896 million tonnes, which compares with the projection at the beginning of the growing season in July […] Read more
Hanging by its fingernails’: U.S. biodiesel industry struggles without subsidy
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – When John Whittington shut his Morristown, Indiana, biodiesel plant this week, he knew the move would leave all 14 of his workers there looking for jobs heading into the U.S. holiday season. But he felt he had no choice. A $1-per-gallon subsidy that had been propping up the industry since 2005 […] Read more
Prolonged Prairie harvest pushes up feed grain prices
WINNIPEG, Nov. 14 (MarketsFarm) – The seemingly never-ending harvest across the Prairies has been responsible for a C$10 to C$15 per tonne jump this month in feed grain prices, said Glen Loyns, general manager of JGL Commodities in Moose Jaw, Sask. “It’s probably gone up C$5 this week,” Loyns commented. This year’s extended harvest coupled […] Read more
Canada must trumpet sustainable practices
If a no-till field in Saskatchewan stores carbon in the soil and no one in Toronto, Amsterdam or Tokyo hears about it, does the environmental benefit really matter? It probably does matter, but consumers, investors and companies are seeking foods that will make a difference around climate change. If they’re not aware of zero tillage, […] Read more
Illuminate weed, isolate it, then kill
Targeting a weed with lethal dose eliminates it from the enemy gene-bank while conserving herbicides, lowering costs
As farmers continue dealing with the problem of herbicide-resistant weeds, the global crop protection industry has stepped up with new strategies, equipment and digital technology to help fight weeds. Croplands Equipment of Australia is one of those global companies whose weed killing initiatives arrived in Canada through a relationship with Nufarm. Croplands has spent the […] Read more
Pantera sprayers include flexible application
Nozzles are selectable or can be grouped on the fly automatically, including features such as turn compensation
The nozzle body on the Amazone Pantera 4503 self-propelled sprayer automatically switches between four nozzles, to ensure produce is applied uniformly even around tight turns. Pulse width modulation allows turn compensation in competing sprayers, but this technology is limited when product is applied through one nozzle. John Deere’s ExactApply can spray with two nozzles in […] Read more
Autonomous equipment gets more work
St. Louis, Mo. — Similar to how custom harvest operations travel across North America following crops as they ripen, fleets of robot planters will follow favourable planting conditions in the spring, if the business plan of Sabanto Ag gets traction. The company is managed by Craig Rupp and Kyler Laird, who met at an agBOT […] Read more
Big blue SP sprayer holds 1,900 gallons
Lemken has unveiled their new high-capacity sprayer ahead of this month’s Agritechnica in Germany. The Nova project started with a fresh sheet of paper in 2017, with the aim of improving on the current crop of sprayers. In Western Canada the Lemken is best known for its tillage tools, but the company does build a […] Read more
