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Less mowing, more flowers, more yield
A few tweaks to farm landscape management can improve life for beneficial insects

What type of person are you?
Across the business world, personality testing is growing exponentially. Now, it’s coming to the farm

Putting a value on a shelterbelt
Yields drop immediately adjacent, but start to increase after 10 to 20 metres beyond

Boost the N and boost the fungicide?
Study shows oat growers should make separate decisions on how much of each to apply

Winding down: How will Canada’s aging farmers sell their land?
As the Besser family discovered, it can pay to play the long game

Pushing the wheat seeding envelope
Good seed treatments are recommended, but research at Lethbridge suggests you should start the drill when the soil is at 2 C

Alone on the farm, or lonely?
Farm life can be more isolating and more challenging than ever, making it even more important to ask yourself these questions

A decade of midge-tolerant wheat
New varieties are in the pipeline for CWRS and SWS classes

‘Soap opera’ prenups
Marriage agreements built on fairness can be a legitimate risk management tool

Balancing demands for both quality and yield in barley
New barley varieties show yield gains over old favourites AC Metcalfe and CDC Copeland. What’s needed now is industry acceptance
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