Assessing risk is a crucial part of any producer's pest control strategy. If you don't know what to look for or how to look for it, you are setting yourself up for some potentially costly problems. That risk assessment starts with a good knowledge of the previous year including hotspots for activity, and overall movement... Read More
Category: Crops
Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was in attendance at FarmTech in Edmonton. He spoke to the 1600 attendees about the huge aoportunities in Canadian agriculture. Of course of one the topics was the upcoming changes to the marketing sytsem for wheat and barley coming August 1, 2012 in Western Canada. There were a number of... Read More
This years Crop Production Week had a number of high-clearance sprayers from multiple companies being showcased on the tradeshow floor. We looked at a few of those sprayers already. In this segment, we turn our sites on AGCO's 2012 Rogator high-clearance sprayer. Some of the new features of this sprayer are visible from the outside,... Read More
The Canadian pulse industry has room to grow, a lot of room. The Saskatchewan Pulse Growers Association has targeted growth of 7 million acres by the year 2025. As aggressive as that may seem, Executive Director of the organization Carl Potts says it is achievable for a number of reasons. One of the first of... Read More
In order for the pulse industry to grow in Canada, a number of areas have to be looked at. One of those areas is market development. The world's food needs are growing and changing. New markets are opening up as a middle class emerges in areas of the developing world. Those people have specific end-use... Read More
We talked before about the spirit of invention and innovation that's prevalent among Saskatchewan farmers. It seems as though they're always tinkering with something in the shop or modifying something they bought. I don't know if it's long winters with nothing else to do or a lack of equipment or machinery that really suits their... Read More
The last time we spoke to Patrick Crampton, we talked about Agrisoma's research and development of the carinata plant in the area of biofuels. The plant is very similar to canola, but with an industrial oil profile suited well to diesel and jet fuel usage. The agronomics are very similar to canola in the fact... Read More
There are almost always times during harvest where you're racing to beat some weather event. You're either combining through what you hope is a short period of rain or in some cases, sadly, snow, and you're forced to shut down and wait it out or shut down until next morning. You don't want to get... Read More
Machinery is the major draw at most farm shows. Everyone loves to see the newest and the best from every company on the trade show floor. This year at Cropweek 2012's Crop Production Week portion of the show, we saw just that. At this years show we saw everything from the worlds largest grain cart... Read More
Farmers in Western Canada will be going through a big change come August. The end of the Canadian Wheat Board's single desk will open up a whole new landscape to producers. It's a landscape that some farmers are unsure about and other farmers are excited for. For those who land on the unsure side of... Read More