Pushing Yields in a Sustainable Environment
By Lisa Kopochinski
Earlier this year, Agriculture Canada announced its fertilizer emissions reduction target, seeking a 30 per cent drop by 2030. It also stated...
Grain Market Analysis: The Struggle of Quality and Quantity
As winter closes in, and with harvest now behind us, markets should generally stabilize some as buyers focus on trying to establish the quality...
The Easy Button
By Natalie Noble
Grain sampling at harvest. The time-consuming practice yields poor representation and inaccurate results more often than not, but that’s about to change....
Tiny and Mighty
A perpetual thorn in farmers’ sides, pests and diseases require much time, energy and money to control. At large-scale industrial operations and small family...
How Secure is Farm Data?
By Jaclyn Krymowski
Like
much of the world, data now plays an integral role in our daily life. This is
extended to modern agriculture from research to...
Tried and True
Some dilemmas, such as choosing a Porsche, Mercedes or BMW, are nice to have. The farming equivalent might be wheat, canola and oats, as...
Scouting 101 – Use the Future to Improve Now
By Tammy Jones
If I had a dream…
Future weed control consists of armies of drones being deployed to control specific weeds at specific growth stages...
What is Delta T and why is it Important for Spraying?
By Tom Wolf
Delta T, also known as “wet bulb depression,” is an atmospheric moisture parameter whose use in spraying has made its way to...
Lighten Your Footprint
By Steve Werblow
Rushing into the field to save a day can leave farmers with soil compaction that may reduce crop yields and increase fuel...
A Leg up on the Competition
Jeff Melchior
No matter what point you are at in life, chances are, somewhere along the way you had a mentor. Be it a parent,...
