Growing Brevant® seeds Nexera® canola offers Prairie farmers access to high-performing varieties and a premium for producing high-stability Omega-9 oil. It’s a combination developed with growers’ success in mind. “The Nexera grower is a business-minded farmer who chooses to grow under contract in order to secure a profit advantage,” says Tyler Groeneveld, commercial director of […] Read more
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Brands you know, service you trust with AGI
AGI's Service team offers maintenance and repairs on farm
Harvest is fast approaching on the Canadian Prairies and that means long hours and hard work are ahead. Be sure your AGI equipment, including AGI Westfield, AGI Westeel, AGI Grain Guard and AGI Batco, is ready for that same hard work with the help of qualified AGI Service technicians. Pre-harvest inspections can mean huge time […] Read more
Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers Answer the Call to Farm in Innovative Ways
Being a young farmer in Canada today is a challenge, but Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers 2021 winners Ray and Tracey Bredenhof, who operate a poultry and a hop farm in the BC Fraser Valley, are rising to it–overcoming adversity along the way. The Bredenhofs’ journey as third generation farmers began in 2005 when, as newlyweds, […] Read more
Pulling N from the air
Utrisha N can help make nitrogen available throughout the growing season
Canadian farmers now have access to a new biological source of nitrogen for their crops. Utrisha N from Corteva Agriscience is a foliar-applied nutrient-efficiency biostimulant that makes nitrogen from the air accessible to the plant all season long. “Utrisha N is a living biological that provides a continuous, sustainable supply of nitrogen to the crop,” […] Read more
Weed management in 2022
In this exceptional year, ‘be ready to do things you've never done before'
Weed control strategies need to be adjusted every year on every farm, but this year across the Prairies, adjustments may have to be large and wide-ranging. In addition to limited residual moisture to get the crop going ahead of weed competition in most areas, there are unprecedented herbicide shortages. Growers will therefore need to make […] Read more
Exhilarate gives growers the upper hand
A combination of proven chemistry plus Arylex provides a wide window of broadleaf weed control
Danny Dion knows if cleavers get out of hand in his wheat or barley, he is going to have a problem. But when he uses Exhilarate herbicide, he can trust it to do a good job on the cleavers as well as other broadleaf weeds. He says that Exhilarate is formulated from a product he […] Read more
The Discovery Farm 2021 Field Report
Practical insights from various Discovery Farm Langham projects – and what lies ahead in 2022
The severe drought conditions in 2021 were very difficult for many western Canadian crop farmers, but last year’s growing season did provide a few silver linings. “At Discovery Farm Langham in Saskatchewan in 2021, we gathered important information about crop cultivation under extreme conditions,” says Blake Weiseth, applied research lead at Discovery Farm Langham and […] Read more
Prominex herbicide combines performance with flexible timing
Its robust dose provides effective control of many sizes and stages of annual and perennial broadleaf weeds
Last season was dry with a slowly emerging crop, and Bentz Aldinger knew it was a question of timing when it came to deciding when to apply his herbicide. Should it be when the crop was at the ideal stage for application, or when the weeds were small and easier to manage? The choice to […] Read more
Buy your inputs online
FBN offers transparent pricing, direct-to-farm delivery and online tools for tank mixing products
Farmers can now shop direct for their chemical inputs, thanks to Farmers Business Network®’s (FBN®) new and upgraded FBN Direct® online store. By expanding the online shopping experience to include ag chemical inputs, western Canadian growers can join the thousands of farmers already using this dynamic farm input purchasing model, says Breen Neeser, FBN’s country […] Read more
Free up your cash flow
The FarmCash cash advance program is an easy and effective way to protect your farm’s profitability in 2022 at the lowest possible borrowing cost
Farmers across the four Western provinces can access cash flow assistance through the federal Advance Payments Program (APP), with the first $100,000 interest-free. The remainder — up to $1 million per producer — is available at a low interest rate of TD prime minus 0.75 per cent. What better tool is there to help producers […] Read more
