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The ultimate N rate for canola

If we could predict the weather perfectly, it might be different,  but in the real world, the best tool to determine nitrogen rates is  the soil test. It’s a great starting point for 2015

By Jay Whetter February 18, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes One lesson from the Ultimate Canola Challenge is that it’s a wise economic decision to follow your soil test recommendations for nitrogen. “We have always recommended soil tests to get an idea of the nutrient situation in a field, and what really pleased us about the Ultimate Canola Challenge results is how strongly they confirmed […] Read more

Crops, Markets

All crops not equal in face of weakening dollar

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 29, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– With the Canadian dollar falling to its weakest levels relative to its U.S. counterpart in six years, the general sentiment holds it should be good news for exporters, such as Canadian grain farmers. However, any net benefit may depend on what exactly is being exported and who is doing the buying, according […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Fertilizer prices stray away from corn influence: Analyst

By Dave Sims January 24, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Foreign exports and transportation look like they could be the main issues facing the fertilizer industry in 2015. Countries such as Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are busy players on the market, with Morocco also ramping up production. As a result, more supplies of phosphates and other fertilizers are out there, according to […] Read more

Crops

Precision ag ready for big time

After two decades of development, farm technology has finally caught up with the opportunity to shave inputs and drive yields

By Gord Leathers January 21, 2015

Reading Time: 5 minutes An old cartoon shows two scientists standing at a ship’s rail, gazing out over the beauty of the horizon. In a reflective moment, one extends his arm, motions to the setting sun and says to the other: “Ever thought about all that data out there just yearning to be processed?” Substitute a couple of modern […] Read more

Crops

Ont. to allow land application of greenhouse feedwater

By Country Guide Staff December 17, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Spent nutrient solutions from Ontario’s commercial greenhouses will be made more easily available to crop growers for land application starting in 2015 under a new provincial regulatory framework. Greenhouse growers in the province are already required by law to safely dispose of the greenhouse nutrient feedwater (GNF) after it’s been used, circulated and reused to […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

China looking to curb fertilizer, pesticide use

By Dominique Patton December 5, 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing | Reuters — China, the world’s top producer of rice and wheat, is seeking to cap its use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides that have helped to contaminate large swathes of its arable land and threaten its ability to keep up with domestic food demand. More than 19 per cent of soil samples taken […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Manitoba extends fertilizer application window

By Country Guide Staff November 7, 2014

Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba crop producers who’d hoped to apply manure or fertilizers to their fields now have a couple of extra days before the province’s annual winter ban takes effect. Manitoba’s conservation and water stewardship department announced Friday it will delay the start of the annual provincewide winter nutrient application ban until Wednesday (Nov. 12). Soil temperatures […] Read more

Charles Forman’s farm was a typical 200 acres when he began in 1973. Now the farm is 2,400 acres, with grains, vegetables, greenhouse crops, a biomass pelletizing operation and more.

Guide Business

So close, so far

Farming in eastern Ontario takes a special breed

By Amy Petherick July 16, 2014

Reading Time: 6 minutes The area isn’t for everyone, Charles Forman tells me. Squeezed between three of Canada’s most densely populated urban centres — Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto — farming here is almost eerily anonymous. Even other farmers across the province or all across the country easily overlook the farming that goes on in eastern Ontario. Not that the […] Read more

Production

Phosphate only in seed row

Fertilizer burn in the seed row causes hidden and costly  damage in many canola fields, contributing to lower seed survival. Phosphorus is the only nutrient that shows any net benefit in the seed row with canola when soil levels are low

By Jay Whetter June 9, 2014

Reading Time: 4 minutes Canola is very sensitive to seed-placed fertilizer. We don’t know what percentage of canola seeds are lost to fertilizer burn or toxicity, given that many factors influence seed mortality, but generally, the more fertilizer placed with the seed, the more seeds and seedlings that will die. “Non-viable seeds and seedlings are a lost opportunity of […] Read more

Crops, Production

Make more money from fertilizer

Canola is a nutrient-hungry crop and fertilizer is the biggest input investment for most canola growers. The 4 Rs of fertilizer management — right source, right rate, right time, right place — will improve the economic sustainability of the crop

By Jay Whetter April 4, 2014

Reading Time: 4 minutes Lower canola prices will force growers to rethink their fertilizer investments and focus on inputs that provide a proven return on investment. For canola, those nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur. At the FarmTech Conference in Edmonton in January, I moderated a panel that included all eight Canola Council of Canada agronomy specialists along with […] Read more

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

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