Following frost and challenging weather conditions, it's not uncommon to find wide staging variability in Ontario corn fields this year. Uneven development will complicate timing of fungicide and insecticide applications, notes Dale Cowan, senior agronomist with AGRIS Cooperative, in this installment of the Corn School. "You have to get an idea of what percentage of... Read More
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June 30 was a big day in 1867: the eve before the birth of this great nation. This year, nearly 150 years later, it marked the end of the trading month, the end of the trading quarter, the final day for Greece to accept new financial austerity measures or make a €1.6 Billion loan payment... Read More
Coinciding with the “International Year of Pulses” in 2016, Pulse Canada will be launching a consumer marketing campaign across North America with $3.5 million in support from the federal government. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced the funding through Western Economic Diversification Canada at AGT Food and Ingredients in Saskatoon on Friday morning. “This will help... Read More
Note: There are a couple of rather graphic pictures in this post. Audio included at the end. Losing an animal to any sort of predation can be incredibly difficult to stomach, and a lot of times completely unexpected. The scenes we typically imagine in the wild are those of peace, where cattle low, birds sing,... Read More
“What comes out of the back end of a combine has a direct impact on the success of your seeding operation in the spring,” says Trevor Thiessen, president of Redekop Manufacturing. “What we’re trying to do is makes sure that as a farmer leaves that field in the fall, he’s prepared his land for the... Read More
Your weekly ag news audio update — here’s the TWORA podcast for July 2nd, 2015:
Several factors converge to increase the threat of diseases on a corn crop, from the history of a disease in the field, to the amount of residue, to the weather. Unfortunately, several corn diseases are carried by wind and can end up in your field whether you practice good rotation practices or not. Related: How... Read More
Farmers who know they can grow barley and “make malt” are sometimes frustrated by the narrow margin of error on the specs required for malting acceptance, and for good reason. Malsters have to be incredibly choosey in their choice of malting barley for one reason — meeting the brewmasters’ demands. From how the barley is... Read More
Spray Test Controls was in Regina for Canadian Farm Progress Show this month, to shed a little light on night spraying with their new blue LED light kits. In the embedded video above, Shaun Haney talks to Dale Wiens about the lights, two of which will light up booms of up to 150?. Related: TechTour:... Read More
Grain and oilseed markets were green across the board on Tuesday after the USDA and Statistics Canada dropped a heavy load of new information into the market. The USDA released updated acreage and stocks estimates while StatsCan shared its acreage projections based on a farmer survey in early June. New crop soybean futures jumped more... Read More