The Horsch Solus 
SX concept could seed cereals and small oilseeds, along with corn and soybeans, 
at optimum row widths with one machine.  
PHOTOS: JOHN GREIG

Planter and seed drill join forces

Horsch has created a concept to bring the advantages of a planter to smaller-seeded crops

Is it a planter or a drill? If a concept machine created by Horsch eventually comes to the market, someone might have to invent a new category. “We’re trying to mix and trying to get the best of both worlds, which is a seed drill and a corn planter,” said Laurent Letzler, who manages Horsch

Heavy rain hits French winter seeding

Heavy rain hits French winter seeding

French grain sowings slow and crop ratings fall after heavy rain

Reuters – Winter grain sowings made little progress and crop ratings fell in France during the second week of November, farm office FranceAgriMer data showed Nov. 17. It is a sign that heavy rainfall took a toll on crops in the European Union’s biggest grain grower. French farmers had sown 71 per cent of the expected soft wheat


As long as ground isn’t frozen, it’s possible to get seed-to-soil contact after snowfall.

Setting seed for 2024’s marginal acres

Dormant seeding can make the most of marginal land next year

Seeding isn’t over, if Ducks Unlimited Canada has any say. The organization is promoting a dormant seeding program to boost 2024 forage production and make the most of marginal land. “We’re targeting the areas that farmers have identified as not being the most economically suited to grain cropping,” said DUC forage specialist Charlotte Crawley. “We’re talking kochia-infested areas, foxtail-infested areas

A Concord Disc Drill HD double-disc opener. (ConcordSeeding.com)

Concord seeding equipment brand to be discontinued

Products and designs to continue, but under Vaderstad banner

A brand of air seeding equipment dating back almost five decades in North Dakota and beyond is poised to disappear in the 2024 model year. Concord — a brand owned since 2021 by an arm of Swedish seeding, planting and tillage equipment firm Väderstad — will no longer be sold under the Concord name, the


Corn in progress just east of Blumenort, Man. on July 20, 2022. (Dave Bedard photo)

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn could surprise in USDA’s acres report

Eyes on dry conditions in the Dakotas

MarketsFarm — Although grains analyst Terry Reilly of Futures International said he isn’t expecting any big changes in two upcoming reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he suggested there’s an opportunity for couple of notable alterations. USDA is scheduled to release its planted acreage and quarterly grain stocks reports on Friday at 11 a.m.

Wheat in progress west of Pathlow, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2022. (Dave Bedard photo)

Canadian canola, wheat area up on the year: StatCan

More soybean, corn acres also estimated

MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers planted more canola than earlier intentions, according to updated acreage estimates from Statistics Canada released Wednesday. Meanwhile, wheat plantings hit their highest level in more than two decades. Total canola plantings were estimated at 22.1 million acres by the government agency, which compares with the 21.6 million expected in April and


(Dave Bedard photo)

Analysts expect little change in new StatCan numbers

Weather was 'pretty conducive to plantings'

MarketsFarm — Dry conditions in much of the Prairies this spring may leave seeding areas relatively unchanged ahead of Statistic Canada’s (StatCan) principal field crop report, due to be released Wednesday. It will be the second survey-based acreage report for the 2023-24 marketing year, after the first one was released in April. While growing conditions

Photo: File

Repeat of record Australian wheat, canola crops unlikely

ABARES expects 2023-24 crop down on year

MarketsFarm — After growing record-large wheat and canola crops in 2022-23, Australia is expected to see a significant drop in production in 2023-24 as developing El Nino weather patterns will likely cut rainfall through the growing season, according to the latest crop report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES).


Rain needed for soybeans, other southern Manitoba crops

Rain needed for soybeans, other southern Manitoba crops

Seeded soybeans projected to be up more than 40 million acres from 2022

MarketsFarm – When Toban Dyck started to plant his 600-plus acres of soybeans this year, the soil in the Winkler, Man. area had pretty decent moisture content. But following the combination of hot temperatures and strong winds with little rainfall in May, precipitation is now much needed.  “There’s still a little bit of moisture there.

(Dave Bedard photo)

Spring planting expected complete by week’s end

Manitoba Crop Report, Issue 3 (Week 22)

Precipitation was variable across agro–Manitoba from May 22 to 28 with values ranging from 0 to 41.7 mm. The Northwest and Southwest regions received the highest amounts of precipitation over the past seven days. Climate normals for total accumulated precipitation from May 1 to May 28 range from 31.6 to 58.3 mm and are based