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Wheat stems in a row.
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Field notes

Protect the emerging head for yield potential, insect-ravaged corn, and cereal plant diseases

Reading Time: 3 minutes Stretching flag-leaf timing It’s one of the baselines of cereal crop agronomy — protect the flag leaf, because protecting the flag leaf equals protecting yield potential. Bayer CropScience’s Troy Basaraba told a recent Agronomy Summit meeting of crop advisers that another variable frequently enters this equation — whether or not the application could also be […] Read more
Production

Rutting season

There aren't any great options to fix your rutted fields. But here are the best - and the worst

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet. There’s pretty much never a Goldilocks moment for farming anywhere on the planet, and when those rare moments do emerge, they never last. It makes for challenging times for growers who have to balance the immediate needs of the operation, such as spraying crop protection products, or […] Read more
Bar graph showing market share of pesticide makers (2013).
Production

The pesticide jungle

Keeping it all straight isn't easy in the modern era of pest control

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Weeds, diseases and insects. Every year these stand between you and a bumper crop. Controlling them was once a straightforward exercise, but that era has long passed. The proliferation of pesticide brands, genetically modified crops, residue management and pest resistance has thrown a monkey wrench into the picture. With over 1,500 pesticide brands registered to control over 1,200 pests that attack the over 800 […] Read more
A cultured phytophthora sojae sample (on the white pad) is inserted into a naturally resistant soybean seedling. Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA.
Features, Production

Attack on seedling diseases

Researchers are gaining the upper hand in a battle that is much more complex than anyone expected

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Reading Time: 6 minutes When it comes to production problems in soybeans, growers have grown used to hearing that with soybean cyst nematode, once you’ve got it, it’s in your fields to stay. Only diverse rotations and SCN-resistant varieties can reduce the damage to future crops. But nematodes are far from the only threat. Surveys in the U.S. have […] Read more
Farming the cloud
Production

Farming the cloud

Cloud farming is no longer just a concept. The way you manage data on the farm is about to change for the better

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Reading Time: 5 minutes At Maxime Cardinal’s potato farm, there are more than 120 fields, some of them with more than one variety. From the first pass working the soil in the spring through to harvest, machinery will enter any given field up to 15 times. That’s a lot of information to keep track of! Cardinal, his father, Yvon […] Read more
Production

The right move?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes For Dave Gillespie, the question of whether to install a new on-farm storage bin and drying unit was never really in doubt. At least, it was never really in doubt after the fall of 2010. “The biggest factor was when we sat and couldn’t pick any corn because we were still sitting on beans, and […] Read more
Production

Surging wheat

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Some refer to it with a smirk as “the weed that gets planted after soybeans.” Others see it as a mere rotation crop, something you have to plant whether you want to or not in order to break up disease and pest cycles. However you have always thought about wheat’s role in your own operation, […] Read more
Production

He’s not buying it

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Reading Time: 8 minutes It’s got to be the toughest question in today’s agriculture. What’s the optimum farm size? For a lot of experts — and a lot of farmers — there’s a simple one-word answer. Bigger. Or maybe we should make that, BIGGER. But Shawn McRae isn’t buying it, and although McRae isn’t the kind to try to […] Read more
Production

Fall weed control – the advantages

Reading Time: 2 minutes PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA Fall is a great time to target many perennial weeds. Cooler temperatures as well as specific growth stages will trigger them to move food reserves down to the roots for overwintering. Applying a herbicide that translocates or moves within the plant means more herbicide can also find its way to […] Read more
Production

A boost for wheat

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Corn and soybeans have been the big winners in the race to introduce new seed treatments. In the past 10 years, eastern Canadian farmers have got Poncho for their corn, while soybean growers have been basking in the positive effects of CruiserMaxx Beans, as well as the expanding market for inoculants. But what about cereals? […] Read more

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