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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.
Good year to stockpile forage
Record high rainfall is going to mean record high hay and pasture production in much of the Prairie region. The difficulty may be getting hay cut...
Where did all the N go?
With the large amounts of moisture that has engulfed most of the prairies, nitrogen fertilizer has been on the move. Volitization, leaching, and...
Globetrotting Ritz
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has completed his third trade mission to China in less than a year. During the mission, China agreed to formally...
Carbon market for Saskatchewan
With almost no fanfare, Saskatchewan has passed a new climate change bill that should theoretically provide a mechanism for farmers to be paid for...
Approach suggested for government support
Ralph Goodale, the lone Liberal MP in the province, is the latest politician to tour the areas hardest hit by spring rains. Goodale is calling on...
FNA key supplier has been bought out
Albaugh, the manufacturer of Clear Out 41 (FNA’s flagship Glyphosate) has been acquired by Makhteshim Agan. The recent acquisition is leaving FNA...
MANA expands its reach
These aren’t company names that typically come up on coffee row, but a large deal is pending among two giants in off-patent crop protection...
Saskatchewan – Land of Lakes
Just in case you haven’t seen the lakes in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan June 2010
Canaryseed exports to Mexico disrupted
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has received notification from Mexico that all imports of Canadian canaryseed will be held and tested for the...
Wet questions
Complications from all the wet weather are dominating the inquiries to the Ag Knowledge Centre of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture....