The Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) has withdrawn its membership from national policy organization Grain Growers of Canada. GFO had only recently joined the organization in 2018, at the same time as SaskFlax and Productuers du Grains du Quebec. Markus Haerle, chair of GFO, says his organization left, in part, due to the lack of... Read More
Category: Crop Production
Managing tough canola is... tough. Especially after the year that was 2019 — and for many parts of the Prairies, in the late season, it would not stop raining, snowing, sleeting — precipitating in any form. Canola is still being harvested and will continue into the spring again; but for those who managed to bring... Read More
Changes to the way pulse crop variety data is presented and shared with growers in Alberta has led to some confusion over where to find information on varieties to seed this spring. For 2020, the Alberta Pulse Growers (APG) provided only one year of data set to the Alberta Seed Growers (ASG), which publishes the... Read More
Do you adjust plant populations, fertility, or other product applications on headlands? If not, why not? In this week's Wheat Pete's Word, Peter Johnson answers questions on liquid vs. dry fertilizer and fertilizer set ups, plus what to do with soil test results on sandy soils. He also throws down the challenge of using precision... Read More
As farmers pencil out close-to-final cropping choices for 2020, Statistics Canada has released the ending stocks of principal field crop figures as of December 31, 2019. StatsCan notes in the summary of the report that farmers were asked only for what was currently in storage, and not to include what was yet unharvested in the... Read More
Could fungicide resistance develop on your farm? The answer to that question really depends on how you deploy fungicides in your fields, says Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada research scientist Kelly Turkington. On this episode of RealAgriculture's Resistance Management School, Turkington explains that fungicide resistance really is a numbers game. He notes that a barley or... Read More
The use of herbicides on-farm is a hot topic right now — especially when we're talking glyphosate. At Agritechnica in Hannover, Germany, RealAgriculture's Shaun Haney caught up with Irene Kramer of JBM, to talk about the JBM Mulcher, a unit designed to help reduce the use of herbicides. RealAgriculture’s coverage of Agritechnica 2019 is made... Read More
The man who wrote the book on wheat production in the United Kingdom says it's time to throw away that production guide and adopt a new approach to higher wheat yields. Roger Sylvester-Bradley, who leads the crop performance research team at ADAS Consulting, believes researchers need to learn from the tremendous yield variability they see... Read More
In Ontario, spring cereals such as wheat, oats, and barley are often viewed as the poor cousin of winter wheat, a crop that annually flirts with the one million acre mark in the province. In general, acreage for spring cereals has been flat or declining for the past decade, but Agronomy Advantage agronomist Deb Campbell... Read More
Due to the trade war between the U.S. and China, the White House used the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) to compensate farmers from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). The compensation was justified based on farmers willing to be "true patriots" for the greater good of America's decision to call out China on its trading practices.... Read More