Reading Time: 6 minutes Sure, it’s a lousy pun, but it’s also true. There’s plenty of “hay” to be made in North American forage markets in 2012. In fact, there’s even lots of the green stuff to be made selling hay to the owners of Ontario’s two million cattle and horses. So why look overseas? Because the prospects might […] Read more
And overseas too
Big prices for forages
Reading Time: 6 minutes Every spring, somebody tells us that opportunity has come knocking. Maybe elevators are buzzing over premiums for identity-preserved soybeans, for instance, or the talk might be about soaring prices for edible beans or some other crop. Savvy farmers have learned that the hype often overlooks some pretty tough realities. But all the same, just because […] Read more
Time to grow
With precision agriculture finally ready to fulfil its promise, should you look to expand even faster? The answer depends on whether you have the time
Reading Time: 5 minutes The predictions came fast and furious when relatively accurate GPS units first made their debut outside the military a decade ago. In essentially the twinkling of an eye, we were told, precision agriculture would begin slashing our use of inputs and we would apply only what we needed where it was needed, with medical precision. […] Read morePrecision Farming: Best of both worlds
Variable-rate planting catches on as growers strive to make every seed count with their costly top-flight genetics
Reading Time: 3 minutes Precision agriculture may have got off to a patchy start in Eastern Canada, but one use that is generating a lot of excitement right now is variable-rate seeding. Indeed, the technology to have row units turn on and off automatically seems to have come at exactly the right time, Higher-priced corn seed may be worth […] Read moreIn with smart farming
So you think you know what “precision” farming means? You’re probably selling the technology short. Equipment makers around the world are set to launch tools that will let farmers do things we have never, ever been able to do before
Reading Time: 5 minutes A mere decade ago, to be on the cutting edge of precision farming meant using a GPS receiver equipped with a light bar guidance system to help you steer a straight line. That receiver relied on the standard WAAS signal with its one-metre accuracy, a technological breakthrough. Today, that equipment no longer fits into anyone’s […] Read morePrecision Farming: Finding the profit
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s no question that precision farming technology works. Yield monitors do monitor yields. GPS does pinpoint your location, and computer programs do combine the two to produce multi-coloured, ultra-accurate yield maps. For most farmers, however, the question isn’t whether the technology works. It’s whether it pays. At last, there’s more evidence that it makes economic […] Read more
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