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Two P.E.I. fields quarantined with potato wart

Reading Time: 2 minutes Two potato fields on separate farms on Prince Edward Island are under quarantine after the presence of potato wart was confirmed Thursday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency didn’t say specifically where the fields are, nor whether they’re near where the wart fungus was discovered in separate cases in 2000 and 2007. On top of the […] Read more
Photo courtesy CHS Inc.
Crops, Machinery

U.S. agrifood giant makes Alta. farm retail play

Reading Time: 2 minutes A southern Alberta ag retailer is poised to be the first Canadian country-level branch for U.S. agrifood and fuel co-operative giant CHS Inc. DynAgra Corp., with outlets at Beiseker, Standard, Rolling Hills and Carseland, is to join CHS’s country operations division effective later this month under the name “CHS DynAgra.” “After substantial analysis, we decided […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

VIDEO: Keep soybeans out of edible bean crops

Reading Time: < 1 minute Soybeans are a dangerous weed to have in edible dry bean crops and can turn into a costly problem for a bean grower. Farm production advisor Dennis Lange, of Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives’ GO centre at Altona, considered that topic among others at the Crop Diagnostic School, in this eighth of a series […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Satellites see canola yields slip on heat, disease

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A slew of midsummer crop threats including heat, hail and bugs trimmed the potential of Canada’s record-large 2012/13 canola crop, preventing farmers from fully cashing in on high prices, industry analysts say. On Monday, Statistics Canada lowered its unofficial canola crop yield estimate based on an experimental program that analyzes low-resolution satellite data. The Crop […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery

Alta. no longer reporting farm fatality statistics

Reading Time: 2 minutes An Alberta workers’ organization alleges the province is trying to move the issue of fatal farm injuries "off the public radar" by halting its annual releases of specific farm fatality data. The province said last week that "due to changes in farm fatality reporting, we will no longer be posting specific statistics on farming fatalities […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery, Weather

Ontario’s ‘FIT 2.0’ tightens limits on farmland projects

Reading Time: 3 minutes Changes to the program allowing Ontario farmers and landowners to feed the province’s power grid through their own "solar farms" will tighten limits for such operations on arable farmland. The Ontario Power Authority, which launched the province’s Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program in 2009, on Aug. 10 released its final documents for what it called the […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

VIDEO: Should you roll soybeans after planting?

Reading Time: < 1 minute Soybean growers will want to consider the risks and rewards involved in rolling soybeans after planting, according to crop production advisor Dennis Lange of the Manitoba ag ministry’s Red River GO team at Altona. Lange spoke on the subject at the Crop Diagnostic School in this third of a series of nine videos hosted by […] Read more
General, Machinery

Case IH celebrates a Magnum milestone

Reading Time: < 1 minute In his regular E-Quip machinery blog, Grainews machinery editor Scott Garvey attended the 25th anniversary of the Magnum brand in Racine, Wisconsin, and got to compare the latest version with the oldest model in existence, serial number 2. For the full report read here.
General, Machinery

Across Canada in a farmhouse: Edmonton to New Norway

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Edmonton area provided more content than we had originally bargained for. Toward the end of our previous entry, we referred to land-use battles between citizen groups and the municipality. Well, after some digging around we soon found folks willing to tell us (albeit not on camera) some startling personal stories about ongoing battles for […] Read more

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