Inputs play an important role agronomically, but they can also be a significant cost to any operation. Getting the most out of each dollar is important. One of the first input costs after seed itself is spent on seed treatments. Shad Milligan of Syngenta Canada joined the latest episode of the Wheat School to discuss... Read More
Category: Crop Production
Statistics Canada (StatsCan) says wheat acres across Canada will be the highest they've been in more than twenty years, while area planted to canola, corn, barley, and soybeans will also climb in 2023. However there's an asterisk beside those numbers, as the agency also announced a major change to the methodology behind its seeding intentions... Read More
For many areas of Western Canada, the soil is still quite cool, or only just beginning to warm up. However, just because there's not a lot of biological activity going on in the soil, doesn't mean the risk for soil-borne disease goes away. As Shad Milligan of Syngenta explains in our latest Wheat School episode,... Read More
An open fall, warm winter temperatures, and a mild spring that has now turned cool and wet all add up to big weed control challenges as the calendar gets ready to turn to May. From cover crops that refused to die under snow cover, to hardy oats, tough annuals and an abundance of volunteer wheat,... Read More
Syngenta Crop Protection and Biotalys has announced a collaboration to research, develop, and commercialize new biocontrol products for pests in a broad variety of crops. New bio-insecticides will be built through Biotalys’ AGROBODY technology. Once developed, these products will offer a new mode of action for the management of pest resistance. Under the terms of... Read More
Residue management, seeing rates, dates, other establishment factors in the early season, and a whole lot more are the focus on this episode of The Agronomists. Host Lyndsey Smith is joined by certified wheat gurus Phil Needham of Needham Ag Technologies, and Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson, RealAgriculture's resident agronomist. The focus for this episode is... Read More
When talking about flea beetles and flea beetle pressure, it's really all a numbers game. How can we get the least amount of insects across a wide range of plants? The key, says Jack Payne of South Country Co-op, is uniform seeding and emergence. Getting canola crop off to a quick and even start will... Read More
There's a saying that's something along the lines of: what would you do if you knew you could not fail? In farming, failure is always an option and a risk — after all, biology and weather don't give two hoots about what our goals are. But there's always the promise of trying something new, of... Read More
The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) has begun the process of searching for the next president and CEO of the organization, now that current president Jim Everson has announced he is leaving. Everson will continue in the role until a new president and CEO is in place. The executive committee of the CCC board has... Read More
This spring, corn growers will be planting different seed sizes ranging from large rounds to flats and small rounds. Does the seed size impact the potential yield growers can expect to combine this fall? On this episode of the RealAgriculture Corn School, PRIDE Seeds agronomist Olivia Noorenberghe notes that all seed, regardless of size, carries... Read More