Agronomic strategies that maximize fertilizer efficiency should be good for a farm's financial bottom line and the environment, but specific decisions about how fertilizer is applied should be made with the overall outcome in mind, stresses Marla Riekman, soil management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. The 4Rs — the right source at the right rate, right... Read More
Category: Western Canada
How low can you go? When it comes to silage, a lower harvest height can add real tonnage to the final yield tally. Kayla Slind, acting general manager with the Western Applied Research Corporation (WARC), says that harvesting close to the ground requires land rolling to protect the harvester from damage due to picking up... Read More
Maizex Seeds has announced it will sell and promote both its corn and soybeans under the Maizex brand for the 2024 seed year and marketing campaign. When Maizex launched a joint venture with Sollio Agriculture five years ago, it sought to maintain the companies' legacy brands, marketing corn seed as Maizex while soybeans were sold... Read More
Some technology is adopted because it becomes the only real option — like needing an email address or running tractors instead of horses. But plenty of technology is a "nice to have" not "need to have" and the defining line between the two usually hinges on the return on investment (ROI). In farming, ROI can... Read More
Cattle and calves on feed in the U.S. for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totalled 11.2 million head as of July 1, 2023. The inventory number was two per cent below year-over-year, according to this USDA, falling in line with trade expectations. Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange says this trend... Read More
It is hot hot hot in many parts of North America right now. We are likely aware of how the heat is impacting us, but the question today for Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange is how is this impacting the cattle markets? In this episode of the Beef Market Update, Wasko explains that... Read More
What do you get when two broadcasters sit down at a farm show to talk crop conditions, visits, and farm tech adoption? The interview below! This week at the Ag in Motion farm show near Saskatoon, Sask., Rawlco radio host John Gormley had RealAgriculture's own Shaun Haney on his show to talk about farming in... Read More
There are all shapes and sizes of farms, and with that, comes many different ways that people set up infrastructure, grain handling, and how they make best use of equipment. It's not a one size fits all sort of deal, as someone who has 30,000 acres is going to be looking for something very different... Read More
Early season pest pressure can be a huge drag on canola seedling survivability and producers' pocket books. A seed treatment can be a useful tool in protecting tiny plants, and BASF is launching new treatment treatment stack options in the 2024 Invigor line up. Farmers growing InVigor hybrid canola likely noticed the shift in '23... Read More
More power, great traction, more hydraulic flow, and lower fuel use are all on offer with the CLAAS XERION 12 line up, according to the company. Frans Reijmers, with CLAAS tractors, was on hand at the Ag in Motion show this week in Saskatoon to show off both the XERION and new ARION models. Built... Read More