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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.
Glyphosate should get cheaper
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had an interesting story on glyphosate prices in a recent edition. The story by Jeffry Tomich says a flood of...
Food for Flea Beatles
This is now the best time to start watching for flea beetle action in your young canola crops, as the tender cotyledons as like candy to...
Short term pain, long term gain?
Cattle industry experts are in general agreement that the long-term outlook is bright for the beef industry. However, the short term outlook is...
Worry growing over feed supplies
The annual meeting of the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association is underway in Moose Jaw. You wouldn’t know it by conditions around Moose Jaw, but...
Compelled to store durum
There’s a longstanding debate over whether or not the Canadian Wheat Board extracts a premium for the wheat, durum and barley it sells into world...
The Alpine Advantage: Alpine Liquid Starter
On Wheat: maximizes available phosphorus and potassium required for top yields promotes quick, uniform emergence seed safe at recommended...
Consumption increasing for poultry, yogurt and wine
Canadians are now eating more poultry per capita than beef. Statistics Canada has released new data on the foods we consume. In 2008, the...
Agriculture: Re-emerging giant
There was a time when agriculture dominated the provincial economy. These days the value of agricultural production is about the same as the value...
Frost and snow on Canola
Snow, freezing temperatures on four to five nights and in some areas, heavy frosts (as low as minus 7°C), occurred across the Prairies last week....
Canola has sprung, just like spring
May 25th was the first time that we were able to find seedlings out of the ground at the Get More Bushels Super Crop Plot. Emergence is still slow...


