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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

How do you prepare for a poor crop?

The Grain Growers of Canada has written to federal and provincial agriculture ministers asking that they immediately begin planning for what will...

Beef marketing money likely to be reduced

Cowboy politics in Alberta is going to have an impact on cattle producers across the country. The $3 per head cattle check off in Alberta has long...

Crop prospects take a beating

A trio of problems is threatening the Saskatchewan crop – drought, frost and delayed development. Delayed development is a concern in most regions....

Sorting out the rain and the frost

It’s going to take awhile to figure out overall crop conditions following the weather of the past few days. There has been substantial precipitation...

Rocky start to growing season

For early June, crop development is was behind where it should be. The crop report released yesterday by the Ministry of Agriculture says 60 to 80...

Enhanced nitrogen fixation

McGill University of Montreal and Becker Underwood of Ames, Iowa have signed a commercial licensing agreement. The agreement grants Becker Underwood...