Researchers say plants such as lamb’s quarters aren’t here by accident, and growing corn goes back more than a millennium
Recently retired plant pathologists Andy Tekauz and Jeannie Gilbert will be replaced, but the positions will be in Morden, not Winnipeg
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada isn’t easing up in the battle against fusarium head blight, says the director general for the department’s Prairie/Boreal Plain Ecozone. “Fusarium work is a high priority,” said Stephen Morgan Jones. “It is, along with the rust diseases, a very high priority for us.” Jones said two recently retired fusarium experts fromParticipants in a vision session like the idea of robots operating equipment 24/7 but still want people on the scene
Robotics, “smarter” crops, and equipment that’s easier to operate and maintain topped the wish list of 30 Saskatchewan agricultural leaders who recently participated in a “vision session” organized by the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute. “Sessions like this are essential to ensure that our research is focused on producing the new technologies farmers want and need,”It may seem like heresy, but shallow plowing once every seven years could help rather than hurt soil quality
It’s still possible to catch a glimpse of a moldboard plow now and then on the Prairies. Usually, they can be seen rusting away peacefully in the bushes near an abandoned farm yard, or taking one last ride on the back of a scrap metal truck. That’s where the older plows belong, said Pat Lynch,
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