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...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 19, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
So how important is a pre-seed burn off? That question gets asked to me and others in the industry all the time. It can be one of the most important things when it comes to certain weeds and density of weeds. Let’s start with a favourite of most farmers in Alberta,...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 15, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
We have to look back in history to understand how seed treatments came to be. Some of the first seed treatment goes as far back to when the first settlers came to North America. This was just by accident that some of the seed bags fell in the salt water and when they...
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