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Tom Button
Opinion

Editor’s Note: Beyond our understanding

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Before you click away, read Gerald Pilger’s ‘The target is glyphosate’, even if you think you don’t have time The organization that Gerald writes about is called Avaaz, named after the root that gives us the word “voice” in several European languages. Over 44 million environmentalists around the world now belong to Avaaz, and they […] Read more
Tractor spraying wheat field with sprayer in springtime, herbicides and pesticides
Guide Business, Opinion

The target is glyphosate

It’s time to worry. The real goal of today’s anti-GMO movement is to kill the weed killer at the core of modern agriculture

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Reading Time: 6 minutes As farmers, we have a question to ask ourselves. Are we getting played? Are we getting taken in, just like an audience at a magic show that gets fooled into watching the distraction instead of what’s really happening? Is agriculture reacting to the GMO debate when we should be focusing on protecting glyphosate? These are […] Read more
Large tires moving at high speeds are the biggest source of air turbulence behind the sprayer. This year, PAMI is conducting further field experiments with a new 120-foot boom John Deere.
Crops

Sprayer speed a turbulent topic

As sprayers go faster, aerodynamics start to come into play. A PAMI project is evaluating if they affect spray deposition

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Reading Time: 3 minutes On the surface, spraying seems straightforward. But a closer look at the multitude of factors that can influence how best to get product from the spray tank to the plant surface reveals something akin to a massive puzzle with a couple of pieces missing. One of the people trying to make that picture complete is […] Read more
Field horsetail with one of nine different treatments being evaluated in 2016 (left) compared to un-sprayed check (right).
Crops

Pest Patrol: What can be done about field horsetail?

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

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Reading Time: 3 minutes I get asked about field horsetail management more than any other weed, and it’s the one that I have the least amount of effective solutions for. Sure, you can get reasonably good top-growth control with the right herbicide, but the success is short-lived due to field horsetail’s tenacity. I often joke that the best way […] Read more
Crop duster over a canola field in Central Alberta, Canada
Crops, Production

Applying fungicide by air

If you choose an aerial applicator to apply your fungicide, be aware of timing and water volume

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Tom Wolf, researcher and owner of Agrimetrix Research and Training, says aerial applicators are “tremendously important.” “They apply spray under conditions that a ground rig can’t — for example, with soil moisture. They cover much more area than a ground rig ever can so they can be more timely. ”Jill Lane, executive director of […] Read more
Tractor spraying wheat field
Crops

Is it enough to rotate your herbicides?

Integrated weed management can slow herbicide resistance, but rotation is just one piece

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Integrated weed management (IWM) is not rotating herbicides or modes of action. IWM is combining one of more different weed management techniques, such as chemical, cultural, physical or biological weed control. Some IWM methods are easy to implement, such as making sure you select good, certified seed that will grow vigorously and out-compete weeds. Seeding […] Read more
Plant of the young corn on field,selective focus
Crops, Opinion

The GMO debate is far from over

The labelling issue is more about perceived risk or benefit than it is about science

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Reading Time: 4 minutes With the Vermont GMO (genetically modified organism) labelling law now in effect, a number of companies has begun to voluntarily label all of their products sold anywhere in the U.S. rather than end up having to produce different labels for different states. They are, in effect, treating the Vermont law as the national standard for GMO […] Read more
Apply fungicide when lentils flower
Crops, Pulses

Apply fungicide when lentils flower

If you have valuable lentils out in your field, make sure you protect them from crop disease

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Whether you’re an old hand at growing lentils, or relatively inexperienced, it’s worth brushing up on a few harvest tips before the combines start rolling. Harvest success begins before seeding. It’s best to pick land that’s fairly level and stone-free, says Dale Risula, provincial specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture in Regina. “Rolling your land is a […] Read more
Thanks to the Canadian breakthrough, weeks are being shaved off the time it takes to get the results from some Group 2 resistance tests.
Crops

WGRF research offers faster herbicide testing

WGRF-funded research offers a rapid test to determine whether your weed escapes are Group-2 herbicide resistant

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Reading Time: 4 minutes You sprayed 10 days ago and yet that patch of wild oats is still thriving. So you do what farmers across the Prairies do in this situation: take a sample and send it in to the Crop Protection Lab (CPL) in Regina and wait. Depending on the problem, some answers come in just a few […] Read more
Table 1: Annual ryegrass sensitivity to soil-applied corn herbicides.
Corn, Crops

Pest Patrol: Sensitivity of inter-seeded annual ryegrass and red clover to corn herbicides

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Research has been done in the United States and Canada to determine the tolerance of cover crops to various soil-applied corn herbicides. This article provides an overview of the results of that work, and provides some consensus across the different locations. Two important factors influence the potential for carryover injury to rotational crops: The sensitivity […] Read more

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