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Six tips to successful land rental
Crops

Six tips to successful land rental

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This title to the old Russian folk tale by Leo Tolstoy hasn’t lost any of its significance.* It’s a question farmers ponder today, as land and land rent prices continue to rise to levels never seen before. Despite lower commodity prices, the cost of land is still rising dramatically in the Westlock, Alta. area (about
Soviet tractor sales and plugged grain terminals
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Soviet tractor sales and plugged grain terminals

Our History: September 1985

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In tiny print at the bottom, this ad for Belarus tractors in our Sept. 12, 1985 issue hoped to influence farmers by noting that they were manufactured in the USSR, Canada’s largest grain customer. Soviet sales had been a bit slow and a front-page story reported on plugged terminals and slow shipments through Thunder Bay,
Shoe on the other foot? Look for improved grain basis at the elevator this year
Crops, News

Shoe on the other foot? Look for improved grain basis at the elevator this year

It’s a very different situation from two years ago — now grain companies are keen to ‘keep their pipelines moving’

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A bad-news year for crop production is a good year when it comes to basis — and so farmers should be shopping around this harvest, say market analysts. “In general in years when supplies are tight locally or in a region, you would normally expect to see basis levels that are stronger than what you
Dale Alderson (l) and Don Campbell of Intel Seed beside the company’s seven-chute AMVT optical sorter.
Crops, News

Optical sorters can add value to grain by taking bad stuff out

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Optical sorters, used to remove unwanted material in grain, are constantly improving and becoming more affordable, says Dale Alderson of Intel Seed. Nowadays a sorter can remove nearly 100 per cent of the ergot in a cereal crop, take wild oats out of tame ones and dramatically reduce the percentage of fusarium-damaged kernels in wheat.
quinoa
Crops, Local news

Northern Quinoa aiming for 100,000 acres

Quinoa growers wanted — with the right location and right rotation

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Get ready to see more quinoa waving in the Prairie breeze. Saskatchewan-based Northern Quinoa Corp. is preparing to increase its acres nearly twentyfold over the next three years. The company has about 5,250 acres of the ancient grain under contract this summer, but it would like to see 100,000 acres across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
rye seed
Cereals, Crops

2015 MCVET winter wheat, fall rye data released

Farmers can use this data to make head-to-head comparisons of varietal performance at specific sites

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Since 2008, MCVET (Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team) has been publishing winter cereal data collected from its trials shortly after harvest to help farmers and seed growers in Manitoba make variety decisions. In 2015, data is being released for five locations — Boissevain, Carman, Melita, Roblin and Winnipeg — for winter wheat and fall rye.
Crops, Weather

Western Prairies see low yields as harvest ramps up

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CNS Canada –– This summer’s erratic weather has taken its toll on plant development in Alberta and parts of western Saskatchewan, according to crop-watchers in those areas. “We have heard that dry conditions have caused plants (peas) to slough off or have the tillers dry off and have lost those heads,” said Barry Yaremcio at
Greg Bartley takes producers through his research plots.
Crops, Oilseeds

Black earth doesn’t equate to warmer soil temperatures

Spaces went fast for this year’s Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers SMART Day

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Wagons were filled to capacity and then some at the Ian N. Morrison research farm near Carman late last month, as the Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers held its annual SMART Day for soybean producers and agronomists. “Programs like this are hugely beneficial, especially for guys like myself, who are just realizing that I know

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