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Eight tips to run your own crop trials
Crops

Eight tips to run your own crop trials

Do your own research instead of adapting other people's research to your farm

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Every acre can be a research acre, said Nicole Philp to farmers at this years CropSphere in Saskatoon. Farmers interested in testing new products and practices can create powerful data sets with a little co-ordination, said Philp, a Canola Council of Canada agronomist. But how can you make sure you get good data out of[...]
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Galega (at left next to alfalfa stand) has shown promise as a forage crop., with some feed values running higher than alfalfa. In addition to its comparable feed values, galega provides quality nectar that's attractive to honeybees.
Crops, Forages

Galega — a new forage import from Eastern Europe

Tests at the Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Station suggest it could be a high-yielding option for Eastern Canada

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Reading Time: 4 minutes If lower commodity prices have proved anything, it’s that the search in Eastern Canada for cropping options and alternative management practices is not limited to just corn, wheat and soybeans. Canola growers in Ontario’s Near North and northwestern Quebec are testing fababeans and growers throughout the east are experimenting with cover crops and cover crop[...]
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Studies in three Prairie provinces used covers to block rainfall and simulate various levels of drought.
Crops, Forages

Stocking rates key to climate change adjustment

Low defoliation rates and leaving lots of litter are best for coping with weather variations from year to year

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Fast and hard? Slow and easy? And how many animals per acre? Stocking and defoliation rates are a complex and even controversial issue, and depend a lot on the weather. Climate change could make them even more complex. To get a better idea on how producers should respond, Edward Bork and a team from the[...]
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alfalfa seed - Glen Nicoll
Crops, Forages

Forage breeding faces funding challenges

Government has cut back, private companies are not keen on crops that don’t need to be reseeded every year, and you can’t check off sales to farmers’ own livestock

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Forages are Canada’s biggest crop but you wouldn’t know it because of the few resources that go into breeding them. You’d think that, given its size, forage would be a giant in the world of plant breeding. Unfortunately, it’s more of a midget. Canada has only four major publicly funded programs for breeding tame forages,[...]
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Crops, Forages, Hay, Markets, Weather

Hay producers see increased competition, lower prices

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Canada’s export hay prices have come down from summer highs and now sit at less than half their previous levels, but despite competition from other growing regions, a weak loonie is helping Canadian producers. South Africa, Eastern Europe and Argentina have increased their alfalfa production, said Edward J. Shaw, director of market[...]
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Tufted vetch was not an abundant weed species in 1988, but it was establishing more of a presence in the 2014 weed survey.
Crops

Pest Patrol: A survey of weeds in corn, soybeans and winter wheat across six southwestern Ontario counties

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The last survey of weeds populating fields in Ontario was conducted in 1988. Therefore, I felt it was time to do another survey and compare the weed species populating corn, soybeans and winter wheat found in 1988 versus 2014 (see tables further down). In general, the abundant species identified in 1988 were also abundant in[...]
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Crops, Forages, Hay, Markets

Hay prices stabilize in Sask., Man.

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Timely rains have drastically improved the forage crop outlooks for Saskatchewan and Manitoba, while also putting prices back into their normal ranges. “Skyrocketing hay prices have stabilized… supplies are good,” said Terry Kowalchuk, a provincial forage crop specialist in Regina. Prices are mostly back down into the $80-$100 per tonne range, he[...]
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Parched Prairie forages hang in under stress
Crops, Hay, Pasture, Weather

Parched Prairie forages hang in under stress

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Sporadic rains and prolonged periods of dryness are taking their toll on forage crops in Alberta and parts of Saskatchewan. According to Terry Kowalchuk, a forage crop specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture in Regina, the eastern half of the province is managing, but the situation is worse in the province’s west. The western[...]
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man beside a hay-making machine
Crops, Forages

Quebec haymakers use homemade dryer to improve quality

The Normandins also modified a small hay baler to convert big square bales into small ones

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Reading Time: 2 minutes David Normandin and his brother Mathieu preferred driving tractors to milking cows and that’s why they make hay and not milk. The brothers, along with their father Luc and Luc’s partner’s daughter, Audrey Mailloux, operate Norfoin Inc., 57 km southeast of Montreal in the Montérégie region of la belle province. The operation had been a[...]
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