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“This technology is coming — it’s here already, and it’s moving really fast.” – Reg Dyck.
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KAP to lobby PMRA to broaden drone-spraying regulations

Biofuels, spray drones and the Canada Grain Act — KAP sets its lobbying goals for 2024

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Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is looking to broaden Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) rules surrounding drones in research. Currently, the PMRA mandates that drones can only be used for spraying herbicides and pesticides if that usage is clearly displayed on the product label. The problem is that very few product labels have been amended and
Kochia is among the weeds that should be on farmers’ radar this fall.
Crops

Early harvest opens options for fall weed control

Spraying tips to use once the combine is parked

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[UPDATED: Oct. 11, 2023] An early harvest gives farmers the opportunity to get ahead of weeds for next season, says Manitoba Agriculture weed specialist Kim Brown. Weeds have had ample time to grow after harvest, making them prime targets for herbicide. Why it matters: As harvest winds down, attention turns to field preparation for 2024.
“When you’re looking at the sprayer, how it’s physically put together in terms of the structure and how it’s operated, we want to understand how that impacts the potential for spray drift.” – Lorne Grieger , PAMI.
Crops, Equipment

The aerodynamics of crop spraying

Air disturbance from the sprayer itself may be affecting your drift risk

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We’ve come a long way with sprayers. We’ve made them bigger, we’ve made them faster and with new visual technology and artificial intelligence, we’ve even made them smarter. Now, research by the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) along with the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan and Agrimetrix in Saskatoon is asking, ‘Can
U.S. gives farmers shorter window to spray dicamba
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U.S. gives farmers shorter window to spray dicamba

Move makes life difficult for growers who’ve already booked inputs

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Reuters – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has slightly shortened the window for farmers in major soybean-producing states to use a weedkiller criticized for drifting away from where it is sprayed. The restrictions make it harder for farmers to use dicamba, sold by agrichemical companies like Bayer AG and Syngenta, after some growers have already
File photo of a dicamba-damaged soybean plant. (Reuters)
Crops, Weather

U.S. EPA reviewing dicamba over crop damage claims

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Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is assessing whether dicamba herbicide can be sprayed safely on soybean and cotton plants genetically engineered to resist the chemical, without the procedure posing “unreasonable risks” to other crops, an agency official said Tuesday. Farmers and scientists for years have reported problems with dicamba drifting away
Water is key to spraying operations, and that’s been in short supply this spring.
Crops

Where’s the water?

Water restrictions threw another wrench into spray season for producers in early June

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In a spray season that has already seen frost warnings, heat waves and high winds, producers in early June were dealing with yet another problem — lack of water. Water restrictions were making headlines in early June, with some treatment plants reporting worryingly low levels of potable water. Why it matters: High-quality water is in
Manitoba farmers are finding the spray window an elusive target this season.
Crops

It’s a hard crop protection season on multiple fronts

How to manage a dry and windy spray season that has gone from below freezing to extreme heat in a matter of days

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Producers are told to spray when weeds are growing, but with both weeds and crop both reeling from a string of stresses and Mother Nature not co-operating, that spray window has been hard to pin down. Why it matters: Hardened weeds and poor spray conditions may leave producers with less effective weed control than they
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Crops, Other

Brandt closes GeoShack deal, locks up Topcon sales in Canada

Tractor company revives Ontario deal

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A deal to make Brandt Tractor the exclusive dealer for Topcon geopositioning equipment clear across Canada has been resuscitated. Regina-based Brandt announced Tuesday it has closed its previously-announced deal to buy the assets of GeoShack Canada — two weeks after Dallas-based GeoShack declared that “a mutually beneficial deal… has not been attained.” GeoShack has been
Flea beetle. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)
Crops, Weather

Flea beetle damage ‘moderate’ across Prairies so far

Levels in Manitoba hit thresholds for spraying, reseeding canola

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MarketsFarm — Flea beetles, cutworms and diamondback moths are only a few of the pests Prairie farmers have to deal with — and this year, so far, damage from flea beetles and cutworms has varied, as have moth counts. “Flea beetles are common throughout the Prairies, everywhere we grow canola. We haven’t been able to
A spray plane flies over a swarm of desert locusts at Lemasulani village in Kenya’s Samburu County on Jan. 17, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Njeri Mwangi)
Crops, Weather

Drones to be tested against Africa’s locust swarms

U.N.'s FAO testing drones to detect, spray pests

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Nairobi | Thomson Reuters Foundation — The United Nations is to test drones equipped with mapping sensors and atomizers to spray pesticides in parts of east Africa battling an invasion of desert locusts that are ravaging crops and exacerbating a hunger crisis. Hundreds of millions of the voracious insects have swept across Ethiopia, Somalia and

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