While there's money to be made in a market boom, crops still need to be priced into a falling or fallen market. Deciding on when to make those sales can be much more stressful in a deflationary period, but there are factors to watch in the coming months that may present pricing opportunities into small... Read More
Category: Crop Production
Farmers know where their combines struggle when it comes time to harvest, and concaves can contribute to these struggles through inefficiencies and grain damage. When Thunderstruck was designing their new Razors Edge Concave that launched at Agri-Trade in Red Deer, Alta., they wanted to create a concave with a bar spacing that allowed for maximum... Read More
Much of the focus of soil conservation practices emphasize decreasing the movement of soil by wind and water erosion. These forms of soil movement are costly from a soil health, farm productivity, and environmental standpoint, however they are not the largest erosion risk to a field. That honour belongs to tillage erosion — the act... Read More
The national umbrella organization representing Canada's grain, oilseed, pulse and special crop industries is welcoming the North American trade dispute panel ruling against Mexico's restrictions on genetically-modified (GM) corn. The dispute revolves around Mexico’s February 2023 presidential corn decree to ban the use of GM corn in dough and tortillas, and to gradually eliminate the... Read More
Saskatoon, Sask.-based MustGrow Biologics says it has completed its purchase of NexusBioAg from Univar Solutions, as of December 31, 2024. The acquisition provides MustGrow with NexusBioAg's existing biological and fertilizer product lines, as well as a sales, marketing, and distribution division in Canada, with the opportunity to expand the division’s operations into the U.S. The... Read More
Wireless technology has been making its way into almost every aspect of life and continues to make its way into modern seeding equipment. Jordan Henderson, territory sales manager for Bourgault Industries, explains how the company has spent the last five years designing the new Bourgault Intelligent Control (BiC) seed controller. The controller has been used... Read More
Phosphorus can sometimes be a tricky macronutrient to manage. Because it is held tightly to soil particles, it's not prone to losses and can be built up over time. But that same holding capacity of a soil can mean that added phosphorus fertilizer and soil-held P isn't always readily available to the crop. There are... Read More
Harvest efficiency is essential when it's time to get the crop in, but combine wheel slip on wet or uneven terrain or inconsistent speed adjustments can cost growers time and money. John Deere's ground speed cameras can compensate for this by detecting the crop 28 feet ahead of the combine to constantly measure crop height... Read More
It's the very last episode of The Agronomists for the 2024 season and host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson and Ray Dowbenko to discuss the top agronomy stories of the year! On this episode, the trio talk about: Current and future uses of spraying technology in farming production; The mysterious but... Read More
While corn has been grown for over 9,000 years, equipment, processes and even the geography that it is grown in has changed. One of the evolving markets when it comes to growing this nutritious grass plant is in conjunction with cover crops. Cover crops and corn is not a new idea — Indigenous peoples grew... Read More