by Breanne Baker | May 20, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
Canola Watch, a weekly report from the Canola Council of Canada, has some interesting production tips: • The most recent version reports that sulphate fertilizer supplies are just keeping up with demand. If a supplier runs out when you’re seeding canola, rather than...
by Breanne Baker | May 19, 2010 | Agronomic Service, Agronomy, Articles
As a grower or an ag retailer we are both in business to achieve a common objective: provide the product or service that meets and exceeds the needs of our customers. For DynAgra that is the Western Canadian grower and for the grower ultimately it would be the end...
by Breanne Baker | May 18, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
GPS satellite systems are going to be non-operational for the next three days…Just kidding, but I bet I caught your attention. It’s amazing how crop agriculture has come to depend on GPS. In just a few short years, there has been a mass conversion of seeding and...
by Breanne Baker | May 14, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
The crop report for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture has seeding progress in the province at only five per cent, way behind the five-year average of 24 per cent. However, the five per cent number is a progress estimate as of Monday, May 10. A lot has changed...
by Breanne Baker | May 12, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
With tight commodity prices, growers are trying to find crops that will return the most to their operation. This sometimes becomes a nightmare because of what was applied the previous year’s crop. We need to be thinking further ahead than we ever had to in the...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 29, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
Canola seeding recommendations have changed over the years. Conventional wisdom was that you wanted to seed a little later in the spring so that emerging canola would be more likely to escape frost damage. In the 90s, conventional wisdom was challenged. It was found...