Does throwing the kitchen sink at your soybean crop provide an economic yield response? The answer is a definitive "No" says University of Minnesota associate professor Seth Naeve. His conclusion is based on the the results of a huge three-year U.S. study that he shared with growers attending the Southwest Agricultural Conference in Ridgetown, Ont.,... Read More
Category: Crops
Crop input decisions would be made so much easier if only one year's weather would predict the next. But we know that one dry year doesn't make a trend, so while 2018 is looking dry in Western Canada will it stay dry for the growing season? Will crop disease be less of a threat because... Read More
Depending on where you live, fields have likely been frozen now for quite some time. Maybe they're even snow covered. Now is a great time to spread manure because that firm ground means you can travel and not create compaction, the storage is full, and, well, it'll work its way into the soil later...right? Well,... Read More
There's this thing about nature — it adapts. Many canola growers are getting a real taste of this in recent years by a slow but steady resurgence of blackleg showing up and stealing yield. For those who think, "hey, we have genetic resistance, didn't we deal with this already?" read and listen on. Record canola... Read More
A drive-over conveyor that swings from hopper to hopper to save time when unloading grain drew plenty of attention at Ag Days in Brandon, Man., earlier this month, including from the judges in the farm show's new inventions contest. The "Ultimate Swinging Drive-Over" made by Winkler-based manufacturing startup Soaring Eagle Grain Equipment received the top... Read More
Nutrien Ltd. (the newly created company made up of PotashCorp and Agrium) has entered into an agreement to acquire Agrichem, a specialty plant nutrition and plant health product company in Brazil. Agrichem is one of Brazil's largest liquid nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizer companies, as well as a producer and marketer of plant health products,... Read More
Grain Farmers of Ontario has named Laura Ferrier, a Certified Crop Advisor, as its agronomist. This is a newly created position for the organization that represents the 28,000 barley, corn, oat, soybean, and wheat farmers in the province. Ferrier may be the new agronomist, but she is certainly not new to Grain Farmers of Ontario... Read More
With adequate supplies of most crops, the grain and oilseed market is not giving Western Canadian farmers a strong signal to plant more of any major crop in 2018. At the same time, India's tariffs on pulse crops have producers looking for alternatives to peas and lentils for some acres. From a strictly marketing standpoint,... Read More
Oat futures have climbed more than 30 cents a bushel since the start of the new year, raising the question: will more acres switch from wheat to oats? As of Wednesday, nearby and new crop oat futures in Chicago were in the 42 to 45 percent range relative to Minneapolis wheat. The flatter, quieter spot... Read More
In a winter where most crop markets don't appear to be trying to buy more acres, mustard prices have been an exception. "For farmers looking for profitable opportunities, mustard is sticking out like a sore thumb right now," says Chuck Penner of LeftField Commodity Research in the video below, filmed at CropSphere in Saskatoon earlier... Read More