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Reading The Small Print In The Soil

April 28, 2011

What is a healthy soil? It is difficult to def ine that term so we prefer to use the term soil quality. Soil quality can be measured in terms of organic matter, fertility, texture, salinity, cation exchange capacity, pH and a number of other factors, all of which have identifiable quantitative numbers that can be

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Tips For Analyzing Your Canola Crop’s Fertilizer Needs

By Canola Council Of Canada April 21, 2011

Canola fertility needs have never been higher. And with current field conditions, soil fertility levels have never been so uncertain. The following tips will help growers find solutions to meet the nutritional demands of their high-yielding genetics. Canola growers last year could be divided into three camps: wet fields, dry fields or high yields. No

Crops, Forages

No-Tillers Tap Benefits Of Underground Livestock

By Daniel Winters February 17, 2011

North Dakota grain farmer Glenn Bauer is reaping the benefits of “livestock” in his operation – but you’d need a microscope to see most of them. “We don’t have any cows, but we’ve got a lot of livestock that we try to feed below the surface,” Bauer said during a panel presentation on no-till soil

News

Feed The Soil So It Can Feed The Crop

By Daniel Winters February 10, 2011

Crop yields in a slump? Disease and insect probalems rife? Input costs chewing up profit margins every year? Before you cur se the weather, bugs, or chemical companies, you might want to consider another cause: Declining soil quality. Modern farming has developed a host of quick-fix solutions but the beneficial effects are temporary if you

News, Oilseeds

Saskatchewan Sees Millions Of Fallow Farm Acres

By Rod Nickel January 27, 2011

Canada’s top crop-growing province looks to lose millions more farm acres to flooding, unless it gets unusually favour-able spring conditions, Saskatchewan’s agriculture minister said on Jan. 11. Last year, farmers left 11.6 million acres unplanted in Western Canada, up nearly one-third from the 10-year average because of excessive spring rain. Almost 80 per cent of

Crops, Oilseeds

Farmers Support GE Crops, Saskatchewan Researcher Says

By Alex Binkley December 9, 2010

A poll conducted among Prairie farmers has found widespread support for herbicide- tolerant crops, says a University of Saskatchewan researcher. The poll also showed arguments from groups opposed to genetically engineered varieties don’t ring true with producers, Stuart Smyth, who was raised on a Saskatchewan farm, told the Grow Canada conference. Farmers are using less

Crops, News

Blending Farmer Innovation With Science

By Allan Dawson October 14, 2010

A60-bushel-per-acre crop of wheat would make any farmer proud, but how about one that was grown without pesticides or non-organic fertilizer? That’s how organic wheat yielded last year on a 1.5-acre field plot at the University of Manitoba’s Ian N. Morrison Research Farm at Carman. The average wheat yield in the R. M. of Dufferin,

Crops, Forages

The Role Of Cover Crops In Healthy Soil

By Angela Lovell September 30, 2010

Want healthier soil, higher yields and lower input costs? Then take a page from Mother Nature’s playbook. That was the message from the recent Cover Crop Field Day in Bangor, Saskatchewan, organized by the Parkland Holistic Management club. The highlight of the tour was the farm of Garry Richards who, after taking a holistic management

Hogs, Livestock

Manure Application Will Be Less Frequent And More Costly – for Aug. 19, 2010

By Ron Friesen August 19, 2010

Three years from now, livestock farmers in Hanover and La Broquerie municipalities may not be able to regularly use manure as a soil nutrient. They’ll have to buy commercial fertilizer. Impossible? Not at all. In fact, it’s more than likely. A provincial phosphorus application rule means producers in those two municipalities may be able to

Crops

Shotgun Silage, Grazing Mixes Tested

By Daniel Winters July 1, 2010

“The quality that brings to your soil is huge. You get better water infiltration, water and nutrient holding capacity, tilth, aggregation, and all sorts of good things.” – SUSAN AINSWORTH, MAFRI On Bernie Dueck’s farm near Sidney, the crop is coming up gangbusters. That’s right, in five-acre strips, there’s a whole whack of plants emerging,

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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