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Three steps to make your best grain grade deal

Here's how you can help maximize your profits when making your next grain sale

June 6, 2016

Occasionally producers make sales agreements with grain companies, then find their grain downgraded when they deliver it to their buyer later in the year. This can happen for numerous reasons. Grain companies may have aggressively over-bought early in the year, causing them to lose money and readjust their grain grading later in the year. Producers[...]
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Crops

Five Q and As on soil testing

Here’s what you need to know to make sure your plants have all the right nutrients

By Lisa Guenther May 25, 2016

Soil testing will help you give your crop the best possible start. Dr. Jeff Schoenau, soil fertility expert at the University of Saskatchewan, delivered a free webinar on soil earlier this winter. Schoenau had answers to five common questions about soil testing and fertility.

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Crops

Top 10 weed management practices

Herbicide resistant weeds are no longer a novelty, they’re the norm

By Lisa Guenther April 25, 2016

Hugh Beckie, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, said it’s a challenge to get farmers to implement herbicide-resistance best management practices (BMP) because growers are diverse, and one size doesn’t fit all. But Beckie has found that growers who use BMPs tend to have less herbicide resistance. So, in the spirit of David[...]
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Eight tips to run your own crop trials

Do your own research instead of adapting other people's research to your farm

By Lisa Guenther April 18, 2016

Every acre can be a research acre, said Nicole Philp to farmers at this years CropSphere in Saskatoon. Farmers interested in testing new products and practices can create powerful data sets with a little co-ordination, said Philp, a Canola Council of Canada agronomist. But how can you make sure you get good data out of[...]
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Crops, Oats

Five tips for a successful oat crop

By Angela Lovell April 6, 2016

Oats is a small-acre crop that has tended to fall behind in terms of agronomy research. That’s changing as more oat varieties become available and new niche markets continue to develop and offer premiums to growers meeting their specifications. For anyone trying oats for the first time, or considering adding oats to their rotation, soak[...]
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China to let land lie fallow as grain stocks surge

By Dominique Patton, Niu Shuping November 4, 2015

Beijing/Reuters – China’s ruling Communist Party has for the first time proposed to let land lie fallow in some areas to ease pressure on exhausted water and land resources while grain stocks are near record levels, state media reported on Wednesday. After years of excessive cultivation and bumper grain harvests, China is facing severe shortages[...]
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Dry soils threaten strong Ohio crops; rains boost South Dakota — tour

Canada’s annual inflation rate eases to 1.7 per cent in July, core measures stay firm

Klassen: Feeder market consolidates at historical highs

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Dry soils threaten strong Ohio crops; rains boost South Dakota — tour

Canada’s annual inflation rate eases to 1.7 per cent in July, core measures stay firm

Klassen: Feeder market consolidates at historical highs

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Three steps to make your best grain grade deal

Five Q and As on soil testing

Top 10 weed management practices

Eight tips to run your own crop trials

Five tips for a successful oat crop

China to let land lie fallow as grain stocks surge

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