Canola is big business on the prairies. This year alone it's estimated that roughly 20 million acres of canola will be planted across the prairies. The economics of that are staggering. It also goes without saying that the spin off from those acres has a huge impact as well. Crop inputs, agronomic services, seed treatments... Read More
Category: Agronomy
The decision to apply a fungicide to your wheat crop can be made a little easier if understand the return on your investment. Yield equals dollars and if you're in an area that's at risk for disease. Protecting your crops yield potential is benefit number 1. Fungicides first and foremost provide a preventative level of... Read More
Getting the most out of your fungicide application requires a very large attention to the details of the growing season. Corn goes through a number of different growth stages and applying fungicide at the right stage can help to protect the investment you've made in the corn crop until that point. Timing is critical when... Read More
Unseasonably warm weather has its benefits other than not freezing to death. It appears as though the warm weather in March provided an extra boost to the winter wheat crop, so much in some cases that there is already talk in some circles of the potential for double crop soybeans . Great news for producers... Read More
So, what’s new for wild oat and millet control in wheat? Not too much actually. Sure, there have been several new names launched during the last couple years; names like Wildcat, Axial, Nufarm Clodinafop, Tundra, Slam’R, and Hellcat. Each of these will do a great job at controlling your annual grasses when sprayed at the... Read More
When temperatures drop below zero degrees in the spring, canola growers cringe at the possibility of a canola stand wipe out. This spring has created some real opportunity for stomachs to turn as some canola stands have faced temperatures as low as minus eight Celsius. SEE MORE CANOLA SCHOOL EPISODES Troy Prosofsky, Canola Council of... Read More
When you compare this year to last year, the spring of 2012 feels like a breeze for the bulk of Ontario farmers. I have heard from several Ontario farmers that this spring has been one of the most stress free springs that they can remember. Does that make you worry? Is this the summer that... Read More
Agriculture isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Arizona, in fact it may not even be the tenth thing. The climate can be harsh and unforgiving when you're lacking those essential elements. But when those missing pieces of the puzzle are provided, all that sun can be turned into growing... Read More
With all of the cold weather in April keeping a large portion of winter wheat producers out of the field for that initial herbicide/fungicide pass, it's natural to start wondering if you missed the boat on some yield potential. As worrisome as that may be to the roughly 50% of Ontario farmers that weren't able... Read More
The diamondback moth population has arrived earlier and in greater numbers than in the past years. What does this early flight mean for producers? For starters it means that producers have to be out in their fields earlier, scouting for the pest, but it also means that producers have to adapt how they scout. An... Read More