Oct. 1 – 15: The cost of harvest loss

Trevor Scherman of ScherGain talks about what farmers can do to measure grain loss and why relying on your combine’s factory settings may not offer you the best result for your hard work.


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New crop protection products, canola hybrids from BASF

Farm shows are a good place for companies to show growers new products that are just around the corner, and BASF took the opportunity to do just that at Ag in Motion this summer. Bethany Wyatt, senior technical service specialist with BASF, displayed the latest weed control product with a new group 14 herbicide that



Sept 15 – 30: Electrifying application

Cropzone is desiccating potatoes and oats with a high voltage tool that ruptures plants’ leaf and stem cells, terminating growth. The company demonstrated the equipment and technique near Outlook, Sask. in early September. | Western Producer / Robin Booker video




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A mobile grain cleaner that’s keener

If you’ve needed to improve grain quality, grown an intercrop and need to separate the grains, or had an oops! in your storage bin back at the yard, chances are you’ve had your grain cleaned at some point. That likely means trucking your grain to a facility that offers grain cleaning services which will eat


The Stepplers raise tropical house crickets, not the black crickets Manitobans might see outside.

VIDEO: Traditional and alternative proteins peacefully coexist in ‘Stepplerville’

Prairie Cricket Farms began in a tent in a basement. Now, it’s making its way into grocery stores across the province

Inside the barn, it’s always a hot summer night. It’s 34 C, and a million crickets sing a soft but steady chorus. Outside the barn, it’s a textbook, idyllic early-harvest day on a Manitoba farm. A handful of cattle chew their cuds in a nearby pasture. The wheat across the drive is in the late

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The cost of harvest loss

Calibrating your combine to field conditions is essential

Harvest is about to kick into high gear for many Prairie farmers as the race begins to get crops off of fields and into bins. But in that flurry of activity of operating equipment, co-ordinating people – and trying to hit that optimal weather window – are you taking time to minimize harvest loss? “One