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Mixed farming without livestock
Integrated farming gives the grain producer the rotational benefit of a forage in the rotation, and the livestock producer the benefit of a feed supply

The ‘Holy Grail’ in cereal technology
Can wheat and barley really be taught to act like pulses, and produce their own fertilizer?

Detecting spoilage before it starts
An adaptation of cancer-screening technology offers a better and safer way to check for grain bin moisture, with a bonus of theft detection

When you need great crop advice
Some tips on choosing the right person to help navigate the maze of new crop varieties and technologies

Heading off a stem rust pandemic
Only two older wheat varieties are resistant to Ug99, a devastating race of stem rust which threatens to spread around the world

Checkoffs to become a checkerboard
The plan is for a single checkoff next August 1, but will different provincial recipients all go in the same research direction?

Forage breeding faces funding challenges
Government has cut back, private companies are not keen on crops that don’t need to be reseeded every year, and you can’t check off sales to farmers’ own livestock

Waterhemp knocking at Canada’s door
This cousin of the feared Palmer amaranth has reached the Canadian border, and could soon begin marching across the West

Is Manitoba the new Iowa?
Moisture gives the top U.S. soybean-producing state a yield advantage, but also causes more disease problems

Corn crops point their compass north
What do climate change and western corn share? “Plenty,” says Jeff Rubin