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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.

Managing fertilizer’s salt effect in drought

More on the flax story

The annual meeting of the Canada Grains Council is underway in Winnipeg and yesterday was devoted to market access issues. Some interesting...

Utilizing pre-seed burn off

So how important is a pre-seed burn off? That question gets asked to me and others in the industry all the time. It can be one of the most important...

Would you bet on durum or peas?

Which crop will return to $7 a bushel first – durum or peas? A neighboring farmer posed that question as we shot the breeze at the local farm input...

More Ag Retail acquisitions in Alberta

In the past couple of weeks six other ag-retail locations have been purchased by Agrium, Vittera and other large players in the market place.  On...

Acreage estimates

The first crop report of the season for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture includes estimates of which crops are going to increase in acreage...

Destroying weed seeds

A device called the Harrington seed destructor will be tested on several Aussie farms this year. Australia’s Grains Research and Development...

Saskatchewan’s shortline railways

Saskatchewan’s shortline railways are receiving half a million dollars from the provincial government for infrastructure grants to assist with...

Farmland price gap

Farm Credit Canada has come out with its latest farmland values report. In the second half of 2009, Saskatchewan farmland increased in value by an...

Extensive wind damage

It isn’t unusual for wind to cause damage in Saskatchewan, but it is unusual to see wind damage over such a large area. Last week’s “big blow”...