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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

Can we have another open fall?

August is quickly approaching and it will be a frost watch month. In the most frost prone regions of the Saskatchewan grain belt, the first frost is...

Market analysts shouldn’t be pansies

The latest edition of the Pulse Market Report has just been released by Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. I enjoy market analysis and I applaud this...

Big drop in new crop PROs

The Canadian Wheat Board has released new Pool Return Outlooks for both the current crop year and the upcoming crop year. Price projections didn’t...

Seeing the future

To which view of the future of agriculture do you subscribe? View number one: the growing world population and increasing prosperity will lead to a...

Big improvement in crop potential

This past week marked a turning point for Saskatchewan crop conditions. With major rainfall in most regions, dry conditions are no longer the...

Hog sector faces crisis

The Canadian hog industry is facing virtual extinction. For three years, hog producers in this country have faced steady losses. Many analysts...

Supply, demand and prices

New supply and demand estimates for all the major crops have been generated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. On grains and oilseeds, Canadian...

Fertilizer price comparisons

As we all know, fertilizer prices hit record high levels last year. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has just released a new report on fuel and...

Variable Crop Staging

Canola staging continues to be quite variable within an area and within a single field in some areas. Re-seeded and late seeded fields range from 4-...