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VIDEO: Jan 1 to 15: Canola genes go head-to-head against blackleg resistance

Dane Froese with Manitoba Agriculture offers a quick explainer on why 'matching the puzzle piece' is essential to keeping blackleg in canola in check and reveals how growers can unearth the genes that will offer the best blackleg resistance in their fields.

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VIDEO: How to keep invasive weeds from making a home on your pasture
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VIDEO: How to keep invasive weeds from making a home on your pasture

Reading Time: < 1 minute While your cattle’s tastes and preferences are likely to keep them from eating invasive weeds if they crop up on your pasture, over time they will reduce its carrying capacity if they become too abundant. So what can you do to avoid invasive weeds from getting a foothold on your land? At Ag in Motion […] Read more

VIDEO: Seed treatment meets portability
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VIDEO: Seed treatment meets portability

Reading Time: < 1 minute If you were at Ag in Motion this past summer, an on-farm seed treatment applicator may have caught your eye on the show grounds. This portable seed treatment unit from USC can handle up to 3,500 lbs/minute and has two pump stands which allows producers to apply two chemicals at the same time. In this […] Read more



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VIDEO: Dec 15 to 31: Precision ag takes to the skies

Daniel McCann, CEO of Precision AI, talks about how his company uses a drone and artificial intelligence to deliver crop inputs, help manage in-field crop production and how, in a not-too-distant future, the Precision AI system will provide farmers with a wealth of in-field data.

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VIDEO: Finding efficiencies in fertilizer applications

Reading Time: < 1 minute With the federal government’s goal to achieve a 30 per cent reduction in nitrous oxide emissions – not to mention the high fertilizer costs incurred by farmers in 2022 – there’s a great need to use these products to their full potential without causing additional harm to the environment. But some of the research out […] Read more