The stops at the 2025 Ag in Motion farm show feature an entomologist experimenting with trap crops and marigolds as concepts to control flea beetles.
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Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion
An Agriculture Canada entomologist is experimenting with trap crops and marigolds at an Ag in Motion demonstration cropplot
Gene edited pig gets green light in America
Pork made from gene-edited pigs could soon be on supermarket shelves in Canada.
VIDEO: The dollars and sense of on-farm fertilizer
SPERLING, Man. — The retail price of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer was about $1,100 per ton this summer in Western Canada.
That number comes from Curtis Hiebert, who farms near Sperling, Man.
Hiebert now has a green ammonia production system on his farm, which has a capacity of 100 tons of ammonia per year.
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