“I think farmers can do a real good job with what they’ve got – a 30-inch corn planter or their air seeder. They just need to look and decide how they can tweak it.” – BRUCE BROLLEY, MAFRI Planting soybeans in 15-inch rows instead of solid seeding will cut farmers’ seed costs and boost yields,
Which Is Better, Solid-Seeded Soybeans Or Row Crop?
Seed Treatments Seen Boosting Vigour In Cold Soils
Seed treatments help protect young crops from insects and diseases, but according to Syngenta, its Cruiser Maxx Cereals has an added benefit: increased plant vigour under cold soil conditions. Research shows early seeding usually results in higher yields. That and the fact more farmers are seeding earlier because they have more acres to cover means
Vigour Response Might Be Better Flea Beetle Control
Three years of field research conducted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on canola treated with Helix XTra appeared to initially point to a vigour response to cold soil, said Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researcher Bob Elliott. “We see improved vigour in terms of seedling emergence and crop establishment and we also see it in terms
Flax Is Fabulous For Food
“Nobody else in the world can do it – take the oil, put it in a bottle and keep it stable for the period of time that we can.” – JIM DOWNEY Ask Jim Downey, CEO of Brandon-based Shape Foods, why he’s so energized and the former deputy premier and Progressive Conservative MLA for Arthur,
Picking Spray Times Could Get Easier
“You can get a comfort level as you keep changing the scenarios.” – IAN NICHOLS Anew tool to help farmers pick the best time to spray crops with pesticides could be available in Manitoba this spring. SprayCast is a web-based program that forecasts the optimum spray time within a three-day window designed by Weather INnovations
UAP Has New Biocontrol For Sclerotinia
“If it (Contans) is used by more and more growers the regional approach would be a good approach because the overall inoculum would be reduced.” – VIKRAM BISHT Manitoba sunflower growers finally have a tool in the battle to protect their crops from sclerotinia, a potentially devastating fungal disease that also attacks canola and other
Some Farmers Asking Who Is Liable?
Saskatchewan farmer Gordon Nodge asked the question that’s on a lot of farmers’ minds: Who’s to blame for the contamination of Canada’s flax by CDC Triffid? “The liability for the inadvertent leak and subsequent contamination (of Canada’s non-GM flax) must lay somewhere,” said the farmer from Swift Current, Sask., during a conference call March 18
Better-Quality Winter Wheat Needs To Compete
There’s a lot of medium-to low-quality wheat in the world, making it one of the most price competitive markets, according to Graham Worden, the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) senior manager of technical services. Competitors include India, Russia and Ukraine and the United States produces millions of tonnes of good-quality milling winter wheat. “If we can’t
Two New Winter Wheats Could Be Falcon Replacement
Two new “select” winter wheats recently supported for registration – W434 and S01-285-7*R – look like good replacements for CDC Falcon, Manitoba’s most popular winter wheat. And with the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) proposing to move Falcon from the Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat class to the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) wheat class
Cwb Preparing For GP Wheat Exports
The new Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) wheat class was created for high-yielding wheats suited for the domestic livestock feed and ethanol markets, not human consumption. Nonetheless, the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), which has a monopoly on the marketing of western Canadian wheat destined for domestic human consumption or export, expects there will be times