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The best strategy to market grains?

Here is an eye-opening study that all farmers should read and consider

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Coffee shops abound with the stories of farmers who have topped the markets by using a specific grain marketing strategy. Market advisers boast of the high prices that producers have earned by following their advice. But rarely do we hear of marketing mistakes or of the prices received by those who have sold in the […] Read more
A variety of crops on a small plot of land.
Production

Plotting a course for 2014

This summer’s demo trials will focus on how to mesh traits and crop protection with precision ag technology for even better results

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Reading Time: 5 minutes After a long winter and a slow start to spring, everyone is itching to hit the field, and the major seed and chemical companies are no exception. This year, though, they’re moving away from just looking at new active ingredients or new genetics in their R&D plots. Now, they’re also starting to show what their […] Read more
Bee pollinating a purple flower.
Production

Keeping bees

Neonicotinoid pesticides are under the spotlight following bee kills — but it’s not all doom and gloom

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The southern Ontario spring of 2012 was an early one, and corn growers got busy as soon as they could get their planters out into the fields. Beekeepers got their troops mobilized early too, but high hopes for a good season quickly evaporated as the body count started piling up around the hives. It turned […] Read more
Corn and ryegrass
Crops

Harvesting on turf

Quebec farmers have solved the corn cover crop puzzle. They grow grass under the canopy

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Reading Time: 4 minutes When Raymond Durivage drives his Lexion 585R combine into a cornfield, he knows he’s in for a smooth, worry-free ride. The two front tracks ensure excellent flotation. But that’s not all. The combine is also rolling on turf, with a thick green mattress of ryegrass between each corn row that provides for less compaction and […] Read more
Farmer standing in corn field.
Crops, Features

Corn losing the acreage battle

Across the east, farmers like Elliot Lowry are dropping corn from their 2014 plans

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Be prepared to see noticeably less corn in Canada’s cornbelt next year as farmers in southern Ontario and Quebec continue to switch acres to soybeans. The 2011 federal Census of Agriculture documented a 33 per cent jump since 2006 in the number of acres farmers are planting to soybeans, and it isn’t at all hard […] Read more

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