Hybrid Rye Gaining Ground with Western Farmers
By Becky Zimmer With the growing popularity of hybrid rye, more western Canadian farmers are exploring ways to incorporate hybrid rye into their crop production schedules and crop rotations. Hybrid rye tends to choke out stubborn weeds like foxtail barley, wild oats and kochia, so for farmers with marginal acres, rye crops provide more benefits than just a stronger profit…
What’s New in Weed Control Research?
By Tom Wolf If you want to know more about the future of weed management, it’s sometimes instructive to look at scientific weed science society annual meetings. Most relevant to Canada are two societies: the Canadian Weed Science Society (CWSS), covering all of Canada, and the North Central Weed Science Society (NCWSS), covering the midwestern U.S. and Canada. These societies…
Proactive Management on the Farm
By Becky Zimmer The fact that farming comes with risk is an obvious understatement, especially as farms continue to grow in size. The total number of farms in Canada has gone from 246,923 in 2001 to 189,874 in 2021, a reduction of over 57,000 farms in 20 years, according to Statistics Canada. In the same data set, the only individual…
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