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High school students are being encouraged to pursue a life in agriculture
Canadian farmers are being warned to be careful not to lose their most precious weed-control resource
The emergence of farmland investment funds brings more opportunities than pitfalls
Ban on announcements during the byelection campaign means Manitoba had to keep mum
The University of Manitoba’s Gary Martens says farmers have options, but they don’t like hearing them
After several years of good yields and good prices the party is over for western Canadian farmers, unless they change tack, according to University of Manitoba agronomy instructor Gary Martens. “I’m predicting 2014 will be a financial disaster — total disaster — because the prices (for crops) are crashing right now,” he said in an
Provincial agronomy researcher tested 48 management practices in test plots this summer and says fungicide application had the biggest impact on wheat yields
Looking for higher wheat yields? Then consider upping the budget for fungicide. That’s the advice of Sheri Strydhorst, an agronomy research scientist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. This past summer, Stryd-horst evaluated 48 different management practices to determine the economic benefits of stacking agronomic practices for maximum wheat yield. Only fungicide application had a
The Barley 180 research project focused on plant growth regulators, nitrogen and fungicides in a bid to grow 180 bushels an acre
Increasing farm cash receipts don’t tell the whole story, as the cost of inputs like fuel and fertilizer continue to rise
Farm cash receipts are up in Manitoba for the first nine months of 2013. Way up. According to numbers released by Statistics Canada, Manitoba has seen an increase of 14.7 per cent or $500 million — the largest increase in Canada — over the same period last year. Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled
