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Managing fertilizer’s salt effect in drought
While the forecast shouldn’t entirely dictate how you manage your farm, understanding and performing the best farming practices when adding seed-placed nutrients can help save your yields when the rain fails to fall.
Bertha Armyworm Levels
From Amanda Homans, Decisive Farming Agronomist. There have been some reports of Bertha Armyworms reaching threshold levels on the prairies. Canola...
Late Season Insects
From Amanda Homans, Decisive Farming Agronomist. There are canola growers in the area that are spraying their fields for late season insects...
North Battleford and Kindersley BBQ’s Huge Success
Last week we hosted a BBQ in North Battleford and one in Kindersley for growers who are interested in Optimize RX (our newly branded Variable Rate...
Sclerotinia in an uneven crop: Consider a split application
From Canola Council of Canada Many growers with high yield potential are spraying fungicide to protect canola from sclerotinia stem rot. With $12...
Carbon Market Update – Agricultural Offsets
From Agri-News Private companies are paying farmers directly for environmental improvements based on carbon offset credits from practice...
Optimize RX Fields in Saskatchewan
Decisive Farming has seen it’s first field signs go up last week in Saskatchewan! Decisive Farming will be hosting two Optimize RX information...
Southern Alberta Disease Update
From Maureen Broadhead, Decisive Farming Agronomist It’s all about the stage of the canola this week as farmers are applying fungicides to suppress...
Know-Risk Agriculture Markets Update
CANOLA HEDGE THOUGHTS · The market knows that excessive rain has slightly reduced the acreage devoted to Canola, and weather concerns continue to...
A Perfect Storm for Crop Disease?
From Agri-News After a wet 2010 in many areas of the province, this spring is providing more of the same. Tight crop rotations coupled with another...
Southern Alberta Disease Update
For the week of June 26 – July 3 in wheat crops we’re seeing the following diseases: Septoria Leaf Blotch: Yellow flecks – to brown blotches Tan...