Category: Western Canada
There's a new foliar fungicide on its way to western Canadian growers. "Trivapro will be available for use in cereals, soybeans and corn," explains Syngenta's Rob Klewchuk, in this following interview. "There's three active ingredients — three modes of action." The active ingredients include: propiconazole (Group 3), azoxystrobin (Group 11), and the new succinate dehydro-genase... Read More
Grains blew through the first week of August like a night owl, trading well overnight before collapsing during most daylight hours. For once, wheat was the big winner of the week, up more than 2% on concerns over the crop coming off in Europe and substitution away from corn for feed demand pretty much all... Read More
If tansy ragwort is gaining a foothold in your pasture fields, it’s time to take action. The poisonous yellow-flowered plant has taken root in pastures and hayfields across North America and its liver-damaging alkaloids can kill livestock, explains Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs weed specialist Mike Cowbrough. In this video, Cowbrough offers tips... Read More
If you've been drooling over the tire inflation technology available overseas, you're in luck. Precision Inflation, LLC, is bringing that technology — the ability to change tire pressures from the seat — to North America. "So this technology has been in use in Europe for about 25 years, and 5 years ago, I started bringing... Read More
The Field Crop Development Centre (FCDC) and Lacombe Research and Development Centre hosted Lacombe Field Day on July 27 to showcase some of the work happening in central Alberta. And, for Flavio Capettini, head of research at FCDC, some of this year's excitement centres around a recently released barley variety. "We just released TR13609 —... Read More
The Manitoba Agricultural Museum and Canadian Foodgrains Bank teamed up with over 600 volunteers from 100 Canadian communities to attempt a record-breaking harvest this week, at Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help the Hungry. Over two years of planning culminated into 139 (of 148) threshing machines harvesting wheat for 15 minutes at the Museum... Read More
It's "adaptable and rugged," and, it's on the market. The Viking, Versatile's brand new vertical tillage unit, was unveiled in July, at Ag in Motion, just outside of Saskatoon, SK. "It's designed to aggressively chop, cut and size residue, and mix it into that top one, two, three inches of soil," explains Trevor Jubenville, in... Read More