Canola study | Early results suggest 20 plants per square metre can provide good yields
INDIAN HEAD, Sask. — Researchers in Saskatchewan are examining the less-than-ideal conditions under which producers might consider reseeding canola. The early returns on the project indicate growers might be able to salvage respectable yields from fields with lower plant populations without reseeding, said Chris Holzapfel, research manager for the Indian Head Agricultural Foundation. “If you […] Read moreTag Archives Agronomy
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Ag app provides on-the-go field information
Canadian farmers may not have come as far as they believe they have when it comes to digitalizing field information. Agronomists, crop consultants and their farmer clients need to do a better and faster job of communicating with each other, says Peter Gredig, an agronomist in southern Ontario. Gredig recently launched a new IPad agricultural […] Read more
Sclerotinia resistant canola provides new option
Farmers have new tools to combat what is expected to be one of this year’s worst canola diseases. DuPont Pioneer had three scler-otinia resistant lines of canola on display last week during the company’s summer agronomy tour at its research station near Saskatoon. It is the only seed company with sclerotinia resistant canola hybrids on […] Read more
Green proves a good sign of crop health
BRETON, Alta. — If your crop is the same colour as a John Deere tractor, chances are it’s healthy, says University of Alberta researcher Dick Puurveen. It was a combination of a love of photography and new developments in technology that sent Puurveen on his quest to see if colour could be a measurement of […] Read more
Manitoba insects’ early start slowed by weather
Manitoba producers might have caught a break from some of the bugs that have been threatening early seeded crops. John Gavloski of Manitoba Agriculture feels that the cooler, wetter conditions of the last two weeks will have slowed the appetites of flea beetles. He said the weather might help young canola plants reach the three […] Read more
Where good bugs get their start
ST. JOSPEH, Mo. — Farmers’ fixation on nitrogen fixation is two fold: yield and cost. Pulse crop margins are built on reasonable prices for the commodities, good yields, low costs of production and leftover nitrogen in the soil. The last three require nitrogen fixing rhizobia inoculation of the root systems. In St. Joseph, Missouri, Becker […] Read more
Surfactants increase spray speed
Surfactants have come a long way since the days of diesel and dish detergent mixes. Lecithin has been an important ingredient for decades, but its role within a surfactant mix isn’t always well understood. The surfactant LI 700 by Loveland depends on a formula called Leci-Tech, which has lecithin as the main component. According to […] Read more
GreenSeeker keeps nitrogen in balance
Sometimes less is more | GreenSeeker reads the leaves and puts down the appropriate amount of nitrogen for max yields
It’s not often that farmers can invest in a piece of farm equipment that makes them money while sitting in the shed. And when they do drag it out to the field, it sometimes does nothing at all, except save them more money. But that’s the way the GreenSeeker increases profits, says producer Lee Moats […] Read more
Electrostatic spraying gives plants big hug
Zeros in on target | Charged droplets attracted to underside of leaves
An aerial desiccation mix applied at only one U.S. gallon of liquid per acre achieved 100 percent kill in an Iowa soybean field last summer. The potent mix had a one to three ratio of Roundup to water, applied at a rate of one gallon per acre through a Spectrum electrostatic system mounted on a […] Read more
