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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.
Hail Season Approaches
From Agri-News Alberta gets more hail than anywhere else in Canada, with most hailstorms forming over the foothills. The three key ingredients for...
Know-Risk makes New Innovations showcase at Farm Progress Show
World class agricultural innovations will be on display at the 2011 Farm Progress Show and included in the lineup is Know-Risk™ Farm...
Herbicide carryover can stop emergence
From Canola Council of Canada Seedlings that curl up and start to brown off before emergence could be infected with seedling disease. But they could...
Crop and Weather Update
From Canola Council of Canada Peace (B.C. and Alberta): Seeding is basically done but a few fields are being reseeded after another heavy frost in...
Did you walk your fields today? – Part 2
From Canola Council of Canada Bald patches. Blank areas in the field can result from dry seedbeds, heavy winds, drowned plants, seed rots, cutworms...
Did you walk your fields today? – Part 1
From Canola Council of Canada Canola growers are encouraged to walk their fields a couple times a week — or more — until plants are firmly...
Want to sell your canola at $627.50/mt on the futures market?
This morning I was reading the weekly market report that I get from Know-Risk Farm Management and came across this opportunity and strategy as a...
Farm Credit Canada Accepting Applications for Agrispirit Fund
From Agri-News Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is accepting applications for its Agrispirit fund from now until June 20, 2011. The corporation is donating...
Do you see sulphur deficiency symptoms?
From Canola Council of Canada Sulphur deficiency can show up as early as the 4-5 leaf stage in fields that are highly deficient. Deficiency tends to...
Russian Grain Export Ban – Update
Following an announcement to lift the ban on grain exports from Russia beginning July 1st, 2011, the price of wheat futures is seeing a decline. The...