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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.
Fertilizer Takeovers Seem to Have a Clear Path and Winner
Just when things were starting to get really interesting in the fertilizer takeover game, it looks like it has now all come to an end: Agrium has...
Delayed reporting of BSE
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has gone to monthly reporting for any new cases of BSE. For that reason, a new case of BSE confirmed in an...
Viterra jumps into the pasta business
Viterra is making another big acquisition. It’s taking over Dakota Growers Pasta Company. The company has an integrated durum mill and pasta...
AgriStability Plus
Two farmers from Manitoba have come up with a proposed companion or top-up program for the farm safety net known as AgriStability. They’re calling...
Crop insurance and seeding decisions
Grain producers now have their individual specifics for the 2010 Saskatchewan Crop Insurance program. This information is one of the factors to be...
More Triffid contamination
The Flax Council of Canada is reporting that it has found extremely low levels of Triffid, the unregistered GM flax, in more breeder seed samples....
Don’t cut crop insurance because of AgriStability
Many grain producers have been able to build up good AgriStability reference margins. With that kind of protection in place, there may be a...
Glyphosate resistant kochia
Glyphosate resistance has been confirmed in kochia weeds in western Kansas. A report posted by Southwest Farm Press says the resistant kochia...
Send snow/rain to western Prairies
It’s been a dry winter on the Prairies. In fact, according to the precipitation maps published by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, it’s been record...
A new fertilizer threesome (Yara, Terra, CF)
After an announcement last week that Yara and Terra have agreed on the sale of Terra to Yara. CF has now come back with the following take over...