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Max out yields with shorter-season soybeans

By Daniel Winters January 17, 2013

Remember Aug. 22, 2004? For gardeners in the southwest, it is a date that shall live in infamy. And for soybean growers, it’s a reminder that in Manitoba, the first killing frost doesn’t always come in the third week of September. Farmers should keep that in mind when choosing a variety that can be crammed

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Sucking instead of blowing to seed canola

By Alexis Kienlen August 10, 2012

A group of researchers is testing to see whether it’s better to suck than to blow when seeding canola. They’re experimenting with a vacuum planter, which works opposite to an air seeder — a vacuum pulls seeds into rotating plates which place the seed into the soil. The attraction is seed “singulation” — the ability

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

An early seeding start is not worth the risk

By Gord Gilmour July 20, 2012

Test plots seeded this April ducked frost but didn’t gain much of a head start because soil temperatures were too low

If you ask a group of farmers what’s at the top of their wish list in early March, many would say an early spring, because it eases the logistical challenges of seeding large acreages and reduces the odds of being caught by an early-autumn frost. This year’s exceptionally early spring had the phones ringing off

Crops, Oilseeds

Bigger seed changes the canola seeding equation

By Allan Dawson May 14, 2012

The best chance for maximizing canola yields is a plant population of eight to 10 plants per square foot and a minimum of five throughout the growing season, says Doug Moisey, an extension agronomist with the Canola Council of Canada. “Typically when you have four to five plants per square foot or higher your yield

Crops, News, Weather

There’s talk but frost threat keeping seeding rigs in the shed

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 15, 2012

Warm and dry conditions across Western Canada has sparked talk of an earlier-than-normal start to spring seeding, but crop specialists say it all depends on what happens next. “At this point, it’s really too early to say when guys will be out there seeding…,” said Pam de Rocquigny, an agronomist with Manitoba Agriculture. Weather over

Country Crossroads

Growing from seed

By Albert Parsons March 23, 2012

One of the first flowers to make an appearance in the spring garden is the pansy — and it is one of the last to cease blooming in the fall. Pansies are definitely cool-weather plants, and in fact, they sometimes take a blooming holiday in midsummer during the hottest weather, and that is acceptable because

Crops, News

Fermenting tomato seeds the short road to removing membrane

By Shannon VanRaes March 14, 2012

Some families hand down furniture, others inherit jewelry, but Jim Ternier’s family legacy was a handful of melon seeds. And he wouldn’t have had it any other way. Ternier is the owner of Prairie Garden Seeds based in Humboldt, Saskatchewan and has made a living growing and selling seeds for the last 30 years. “Saving

News, Oilseeds

Soybeans Chasing Canola’s High-Stability Oil Markets

By Allan Dawson September 8, 2011

High-stability canola oil is gaining market share in food services and food manufacturing, but the soybean industry is fighting back. In 2010 the United States Department of Agriculture granted Monsanto’s new Vistive Gold soybean “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) status. Now companies can test Vistive Gold’s high-oleic oil in food, a prerequisite to commercialization. And

Country Crossroads

Harvesting Seeds

August 25, 2011

The practice of collecting seeds from the garden is as old as gardening itself. In decades past, gardeners did not purchase many seeds; most were gathered from the garden in the fall. Harvesting seeds is not as popular as it once was. One reason is that many of the plants we now grow in our

Crops

The Trouble With Broadcast Seeding

By Pam De Rocquigny May 19, 2011

With minimal acres seeded the first week of May 2011, the later-than-normal seeding is the talk of the coffee shop. But it’s too soon to panic. Data from the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation shows that from 2005 to 2010 more than 1.2 million acres of spring wheat and canola on average are seeded in the

Daily Network News

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