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Whether they survive or fail, these early seeding plots will provide some valuable data on seeding dates
Extension agronomist Anastasia Kubinec wasn’t heeding her own advice to farmers the first week of April. She was seeding — but not because she’s banking on pulling in a bin-buster. Rather, she’s betting on a bust. Kubinec, Manitoba Agriculture and Rural Initiatives’ oilseed specialist, wants to demonstrate the risks of seeding too early, especially frost-sensitiveResearch and market development, keeping an eye on the railways, and the fate of short line railways are just three of the issues KAP is trying to address
Manitoba’s farm leaders are scrambling to plug holes that will be left by the demise of the single-desk CWB. Research and market development, keeping an eye on the railways, and the fate of short lines were high on the agenda when Keystone Agricultural Producers delegates gathered at their General Council meeting last week. But challengesUkraine harvested a record 56.7 million tonnes of grain in 2011 and the yield stood at 3.7 tonnes per hectare
Reuters / Ukraine could increase its grain exports to about 35 million tonnes by 2019 from about 20 million in the current season by boosting both the sowing area and yields, a large foreign grain trading house said March 14. Ivan Miroshnichenko, Black Sea regional director for Noble Resources Ukraine, told an international agricultural business
