Crop Management
LANGHAM, Sask. — Indications are we’re heading into dry soil this autumn. On a slightly brighter note, this creates a window to catch up on drainage in preparation for the next wet year. This year’s Ag in Motion field demonstrations near Saskatoon featured three different styles of drainage machines including rotary, tile and a big […] Read more
Crop Management
New sprayer technology and size helps address application challenges
A cold dry season turns wetter, and wetter, and wetter, slowing application processes, eventually requiring aerial
“Spraying? It was long. It was drawn-out,” said Larry Woolliams. The Airdrie, Alta., farmer started the year with late and cold conditions, a bit short of moisture and staring down 9,000 acres of land to crop to seed this spring. With a new sprayer this year, he was hoping for the best, “but you always […] Read more
This year’s harvest the most challenging in recent memory
Farmers will be confronted with a lot of decisions this fall when it comes to harvest management. We all recognize the curveballs that mother nature threw this spring. The soil was dry in many areas. This, along with some management decisions around soil preparation and fertilizer applications, resulted in many producers planting into extremely dry […] Read more
Saskatchewan two percent done, well behind average: report
Winnipeg – Saskatchewan farmers made some harvest progress during the week ended Aug. 19, but operations are running well behind normal, according to the latest provincial crop report from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture. The crop was two percent harvested as of Aug. 19, which was up from less-than-one percent the previous week, but well […] Read more
Trade war sinks North Dakota soybean farmers
COLFAX, North Dakota (Reuters) – North Dakota bet bigger on Chinese soybean demand than any other U.S. state. The industry here – on the far northwestern edge of the U.S. farm belt, close to Pacific ports – spent millions on grain storage and rail-loading infrastructure while boosting plantings by five-fold in 20 years. Now, as […] Read more
Microsoft bring investment to agronomy analysis on the farm
An agronomics analytics service already used on more than 26 million acres is moving into the Canadian market, boosted by a recently announced US$3.2 million investment by M12—the corporate venture arm for Microsoft. “What it means is we will be scaling across the Americas,” said Anastasia Volkova, chief executive officer and founder of Australian startup […] Read more
Farmer’s threat prompts USDA to pull staff from crop tour
HENRY COUNTY, Ill./CHICAGO, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday it had pulled all staff from an annual crop tour after an employee was threatened, and three sources said the threat came over the phone from an angry farmer. Farmers have complained this month that a government crop report did not […] Read more
North-Central Indiana could face smaller corn yields
DE WITT COUNTY, Ill., (Reuters) – Corn farmers in north-central Indiana could be facing smaller corn yield potential this year, after extreme weather and heavy rains delayed plantings across wide swaths of the U.S. Midwest, scouts on an annual tour said Tuesday. Many of the soy fields surveyed in Indiana on the second day of […] Read more
Oats market steady, watching harvest
Winnipeg, (MarketsFarm) – The Western Canadian oats market is stable at prices a bit better than a year ago, as the harvest gets underway and participants wait to see how much will be moving off the combine to the market. Early yield reports are ranging anywhere from 80 to 140 bushels per acre, said Tyler […] Read more
Taber corn takes hail hit
Taber corn will make a full appearance at the southern Alberta town’s annual Cornfest Aug. 22-25 despite severe crop damage earlier this month from a hailstorm in the Taber and Barnwell regions. The Aug. 6 storm, with winds of more than 140 kilometres per hour, drove large hailstones that wiped out area crops including the […] Read more
