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Burning Suggested As A Weed Control Method

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“It won’t be 100 per cent effective but it will obviously reduce the number of weed seeds.” – GARY MARTENS A new study has cast a fresh light on the method of controlling weeds through burning – not the plants themselves but the seeds they leave behind. “Fire is capable of sharply reducing the probability
Crops, Oilseeds

Cool Soil Temperatures Canola Sprouts

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Across the Prairies this spring, canola emergence is very slow and in some fields, uneven. Research has shown much lower and slower canola germination at low temperatures. Soil temperatures above 5C have little effect on the time to 50 per cent germination; however, the number of days to 50 per cent germination increases dramatically at
Crops

If It’s Too Wet To Drive Across, It’s Too Wet To Seed

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Business Development Specialist – oilseeds Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Delayed seeding due to flooding or wet conditions may have you considering broadcast seeding your canola by floater or aerial application. In general, broadcast seeding is not recommended. This includes seeding canola by aircraft onto very wet fields: if it’s too wet to drive
Cereals, Crops

Midge-Tolerant Wheat By Fall 2009

Alliance Seed Corporation has obtained the rights to the Goodeve VB midge-tolerant wheat variety developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Under the terms of the licensing deal, Alliance Seed Corporation has been awarded exclusive marketing and distribution rights for the Goodeve VB variety in Canada. Alliance Seed Corporation plans to work with its own retail
Forages, News

Frost Seeding Cheaper, But Results Can Be Sketchy

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“If I had some really rough land and the stand was really bad and I wanted to get some legumes in, I might try it on some parts. I certainly wouldn’t go out and seed 160 acres that way.” – jane thornton There are two ways of reviving pastures that are past their prime. The
Crops

You Can Come To Terms With Wireworms

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The bad news is that you can’t eliminate wireworms once they’re in your field, but the good news is you can protect your crop with a seed treatment the following year. Wireworms can have a devastating effect on cereal crops, resulting in poor emergence, compromised stand establishment and significantly reduced yields. Traditionally wireworms have been
Country Crossroads, Pulses

Start Sweet Peas Indoors Soon

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I plant my sweet peas indoors in early April in cell packs that have fairly large cells. For a lot of years I would be a very frustrated gardener in late August and early September when the first fall frost ended the display of sweet peas in my garden. It seemed that every year the
Crops, Oilseeds

Good Crop, Bad Crop

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“The worst thing you can do is to say, ‘Yeah, I have this thin stand. I’m not going to put any more money into it.’ That’s a real recipe for disaster.” – MURRAY HARTMAN, AARD Sometimes they die, sometimes they don’t. If half the tiny canola seeds that farmers put in the ground in spring
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Fungicidal Treatment For Cereals Registered

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U. S. chemical firm Chemtura and ag input retail firm UAP Canada have registration in hand for a new fungicidal seed treatment for use by Prairie cereal growers. Rancona Apex will be available this season for use by farmers in Western Canada, UAP said in a release March 6. UAP has the Chemtura product’s Prairie
Crops

Massive Effort Underway To Save Endangered Seeds

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Farmers and plant breeders around the globe are planting thousands of endangered seeds as part of an effort to save 100,000 varieties of food crops from extinction. In many cases, only a handful of seeds remain from rare varieties of barley, rice and wheat whose history can be traced back to the Neolithic era, said

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