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Pale and stunted flower petals are just one symptom of sulphur deficiency. The flower on the left is from a plant with enough sulphur, while that on the right is from a plant short of sulphur.
Canola, Crops

A nutrient-deficiency flare-up in canola

Everything goes along smoothly for decades, and the same old fertilizer combo produces the same old predicable results. Then soil levels for a particular nutrient dip below the critical threshold and plants grow funny and yields go askew. It happens

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Jack Wood noticed strange patches of stunted canola in a field in 2013. By swathing time, those patches were clearly messed up. Pods were short and deformed. Stalks were skinny, and in the resulting windrows, the yield monitor dropped from 40 to just five bu./ac. One adviser said it was heat blast. Wood wasn’t so […] Read more
(LouisDreyfus.ca)
Crops, Reuters

Dreyfus sees recovery after two-year profit slide

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Paris | Reuters — Louis Dreyfus’ core earnings fell for a second year in 2016 amid a persistent high supply of crops, but the agricultural commodity trader said a revamp of operations should help results this year. Large inventories, low prices and limited volatility have curbed margins in the past two years for companies that […] Read more
An Agrium fertilizer distribution facility west of Portage la Prairie, Man. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Reuters

Indian regulator warns on Agrium-PotashCorp merger

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Reading Time: < 1 minute New Delhi | Reuters — India’s competition regulator said the proposed merger between Agrium and PotashCorp was likely to hurt competition, a government statement said Wednesday. The two Canadian fertilizer producers agreed to merge last September to navigate a severe industry slump by boosting efficiency and cutting costs. Neither Agrium nor PotashCorp have physical presence […] Read more
Salford introduced a prototype 20-ton air boom spreader during Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina in June.
Machinery, Machinery Guide

Spreading it around

New fertilizer applicators rush onto the market

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In 2016, farmers were introduced to several new machines capable of meeting their fertilizer spreading needs. Among them was the new self-propelled F4365 spinner-spreader from John Deere, a high-capacity machine designed primarily for large operators and custom applicators. The F4365 sports a 330-cubic foot New Leader dry spreader box, and can apply up to 1,100 […] Read more
(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)
Crops, Weather

Wet spring hampers Prairie fertilizer timetable

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — This week’s dump of snow in eastern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba will likely push back fieldwork and fertilizer applications on a lot of farms, according to one crop watcher. Keystone Agricultural Producers president Dan Mazier, speaking from a conference in the U.S., said only about 50 per cent of the normal amount […] Read more
A response at this stage to sulphur likely won’t show up in soybeans, given the late summer demand of the plant.
Crops

Sulphur: Neglect it at your cost

Sulphur levels are falling in our soils due to reduced air pollution. It’s time to start monitoring yours

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Reading Time: 7 minutes For years, something that has been a scourge to the rest of society has been a serendipitous benefit to growers across much of Eastern Canada. But with industry and governments combining their efforts to “clear the air,” farmers are faced with a situation that’s slowly becoming an issue: sulphur deficiency in soils. It’s not that […] Read more
A Zamboni machine at work. (Zamboni Co. via YouTube)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters, Weather

B.C. police stop farmer clearing snowy street with Zamboni

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Vancouver | Reuters — Police stopped a “well-intentioned” farmer on Vancouver Island on Monday night after he tried to clear a snowed-in neighbourhood street with a Zamboni, a vehicle for cleaning ice rinks and a fixture in arenas across Canada. Central Saanich police spokesman Dan Cottingham said on Tuesday the man told them he had […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Reuters

Potash prices look lower for longer as competition overheats

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — The deepest slump in a decade for the oversupplied potash fertilizer market may abate only slightly in 2017, major producers say, and could take years to correct due to the imminent startup of new mines. PotashCorp, the world’s biggest fertilizer producer, forecast a less profitable year on Thursday than analysts expected, and reported […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Nutrien)
Crops, Markets

Fertilizer prices ‘float along’ with eyes on China, corn

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — It’s shaping up to be a typical winter season for fertilizer prices, according to an industry expert, but he cautions plant expansions in the U.S., corn acreage and the murky world of Chinese exports will all play a part in determining any price spikes in coming months. “We’re probably expecting a typical […] Read more
Application technology is expanding his N management options, says Mike Strang.
Corn, Crops

Profit-making N strategies for growing corn

After a dry season, maybe it’s time for some hard thinking about how you apply nitrogen

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Producers who applied their nitrogen in one pass this year at least minimized their application expenses. Those who opted for a split application and managed to co-ordinate it with well-timed rain perhaps gained more for their efforts. Undoubtedly, however, both are questioning if their strategy was the right way to go this time. And because […] Read more

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