SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – While Kansas- based Veris Technologies gets the agricultural attention, few people know that a Canadian company was the first to manufacture a soil electrical conductivity instrument. Geonics Limited of Mississauga, Ont., manufactured its first electromagnetic induction geophysical instrument in 1962. It was the EM15, and since then the EM series has become […] Read more
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Soil EC data recorder was a Canadian first
Calcium crucial to soil balance, says agronomist
His theory may go against conventional wisdom, but an Alberta farmer says calcium is causing yield boosts associated with applying wood ash to acidic soils. Peter Lundgard, who farms near Peace River, Alta., said wood ash can be an effective soil amendment but its effect in treating soils has less to do with soil pH […] Read more
Chaffer works wide open
BRANDON – Billy Prince runs the bottom sieve wide open on the Air Foil Chaffer he installed in his 8820 John Deere combine. While most operators would be reluctant to run like that, Prince said he gets better performance with this setting. Scott Vibert said Prince might be right, but only if everything on the […] Read more
Weed of the week: Spiny sow thistle
Spiny sow thistle is an annual pest in many parts of Western Canada, and has developed Group 2 herbicide resistance in Alberta. With reduced tillage, the spiny annual sow thistle has become a major weed in Western Canada. The plant will germinate in spring or in fall, becoming a winter annual and appearing where late […] Read more
Agco released three new 9500 series combines
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Agco has released three new 9500 series combines sharing an 8.4 litre engine, ranging from 344 to 502 horsepower. The two larger models, the Massey Ferguson 9540 and 9560, have incorporated a V-format radiator, turbo intercooler and hydraulic cooling layout positioned below a hydraulically driven variable speed fan that manages system […] Read more
Winter peas promising in Alberta crop trials
Alberta Agriculture crop researchers continue to be encouraged by dryland winter pea and winter lentil crop trials. Pulse crops research agrologist Mark Olson said data from the first two years of trials found that winter peas outyielded spring-seeded peas by up to 40 percent. Researchers are still calculating data from the third year. Windham and […] Read more
Winter wheat growers want options before Falcon reassigned
A group that represents Manitoba’s winter wheat growers will likely lobby for a one-year extension on the reassignment of CDC Falcon, which accounts for most of the province’s winter wheat acres. Jake Davidson, executive director of Winter Cereals Manitoba Inc., said producers are concerned that removing CDC Falcon from the Canadian Red Winter Wheat class […] Read more
Getting a grip on mud
They are optimistically known as mudders, and until recently we had little use for this class of tire. The casing is the first important building block of any tire. In the case of light truck tires, there is no point in being cheap and buying a passenger car tire. With the rim sizes and load […] Read more
Weed of the Week: Canada thistle
Creeping thistle, as it is known in some parts of Europe, is best known on the Prairies as the perennial Canada thistle. This unwelcome European immigrant makes its way through the fields of western Canada by seed and root. Thistle patches might start from a seed, but the colonies often form from root buds that […] Read more
Snaky sneaky-cam gives farmers inside scoop
BRANDON – The kind of probe camera that doctors use to take pictures of their patients’ insides is now available to the public. It’s not the same quality as the medical version, says Acklands Granger representative Jean-Guy Marion, but it can still come in handy. “There’s an LED light at the tip of the probe, […] Read more
