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Thesis University of Guelph, Canada 1982) and spent bleaching clay from canola oil refining (Smith, Can. J. Animal Science, 1984, Vol. 64, pp. 725-732), have been shown to diminish the adverse effects of T-2 toxin and zearalenone in rats and immature swine. ...
With Pat Kunz at the helm, alongside his family, the farm has embraced soil health as the foundation for long-term success in their wheat, canola, barley, and pea rotation, as well as their cow-calf and feedlot ...
Avoid excess crop nutrients in your fertilizer strategy to maintain soil health and protect your pocketbook The push to produce higher yields per acre every year continues to weigh heavily on western Canadian farmers. That pressure is accompanied by economic and environmental concerns. Should you invest more money into crop nutrients to reach record yields? Will that investment pay off? Will ...
Identify and correct crop nutrient deficiencies in your soil to increase yield and profit Achieving prosperity in Canadian agriculture is a balancing act. While new technologies increasingly grow your potential to overcome limiting factors and boost yields, oftentimes revisiting the basics will further support your efforts to reach an optimum balance in soil nutrients. A great place to start is ...
During drought or dry conditions, salinity and pH levels can change quickly in the soil. While the forecast shouldn’t entirely dictate how you manage your farm, understanding and performing the best farming practices when adding seed-placed nutrients can help save your yields when the rain fails to ...
What does the future hold? What are the most important enabling conditions for the scaling of regenerative agriculture so that companies hit their 2030 targets and regenerative agriculture becomes ...
The farm comprises a cow-calf operation, feedlot and several hundred acres in a wheat, canola, barley and pea rotation. “Everybody talks about sustainability, and that’s the only word to use here,” Kunz says. ...
This year was a dry season in Drumheller, Alta., where his 2,500-acre farm produced about 40 per cent of its regular yield of wheat, canola, peas, lentils and barley. But for all the elements outside a farmer’s control, McDougald says such a yield was better than expected for such dry conditions. ...
Time management is a critical component of harvest preparation - when a grower has multiple fields to stage, knowing where to prioritize first is key. Mature canola crops are challenging to navigate through and a common workaround to gauge staging readiness includes perimeter scouting, or evaluating seed color change and degree of dry down along the edges of the ...
Empty glass bottles can be used for edible oils such as olive oil, peanut oil, canola oil, soybean oil, etc. The glass oil spray bottle allows easy control of oil intake for health protection. ...
Curtis Kornelson is a third generation farmer – he grows green lentils, canola, durum and barley on just over 8,000 acres northwest of Kindersley, Saskatchewan. ...
This helps to ensure you don’t have ice cold ground, which could critically damage a crop, including canola. “The least amount of work you can do to that ground the higher your organic matter, the more return you’ll have your farm,” says Donald. ...
“Knowing which bin to pull certain loads or commodities from, for example different types of canola with different premiums, having this kind of information is crucial when we come into the larger ...
Opinion piece: sustainability gets supercharged thanks to all-new formulation designed to drive yield As a farmer your job is as simple as it is intensely complex: sustainably produce food to feed the world. A key component of profitable agriculture is using the exact amount of inputs to drive yields. Fertilizer, your largest expense, must be critically timed to achieve the best results. ...
After trying a variety of crops over the years, they now grow primarily durum, canola and red lentils. The name ‘Duthie Farms’ derives from Craig’s paternal grandmother, a nod to the generation that started the farm in 1910. ...
Together, they run a 3,000 acre farm in Alberta’s Peace Country, east of Manning, where they grow canola, wheat, peas, oats and some forage grasses for ...
Located in the medium brown soil zone, Barry and Spencer grow a rotation of canola, cereals, peas and canary seed. In 2021, they used TELUS Agriculture Weather Stations on their farm for the first time. ...
24 years ago when I first started in this business, almost every farmer planted canola at exactly the same rate. No matter how sandy or loamy, high or low moisture, productive or thin-yielding the land, and no matter how plump or slim the seed, we planted 10 acres to the bag. But, because canola seed is expensive and canola companies were ...
“We initiated a project in 2016 to determine the actual VWC from various crops including canola, corn, oats, wheat and soybean in the Carman-Elm Creek, Man., area test site,” Bullock says. ...
In July, Kendall Gee of Crop Intelligence, and Curtis Russell with Taurus Ag Marketing https://www.taurus.ag/team/ met in a canola field southeast of Regina to discuss how soil moisture data can help inform farm decision making throughout the growing season. ...