Insights and Stories on Crops

Apr. 11, 2025 at 10:52 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian agriculture is being pushed to looking for a new balance when it comes to nitrogen emissions. It’s a critical nutrient, essential to life and agriculture, but its byproduct, nitrous oxide (N2O), is also powerful greenhouse gas, one that federal government has aimed to slash. Canadian farmers […]

By Janelle Rudolph

Mar. 25, 2025 at 11:31 am CDT

At Manitoba Ag Days earlier this year, Brunel Sabourin with Antara Agronomy offered a presentation on how growers can more effectively use on-farm data for better decision-making in the field. Sabourin, an agronomist and certified crop advisor, spoke about how growers can apply benchmarks to their farm operations, how technology […]

Feb. 12, 2025 at 8:48 pm CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Herbicide development has slowed in recent years, but innovative research methods could soon drive significant progress in the field. For decades, the pace of discovery of new modes of action — that is, how a herbicide interferes with the plant’s normal functions — was robust. From the […]

By Don Norman

Jan. 31, 2025 at 10:22 am CST

Glacier FarmMedia – Pointing out a field planted with the same crop year-after-year is a good way to make crop pathologists wince. It means any crop-specific pathogens have multiple years to build infection load. Rotation isn’t just about disease though, one pulse and soybean expert notes. It can be a […]

By Miranda Leybourne

Nov. 4, 2024 at 11:49 am CST

While mustard growers face many of the same agronomic challenges as canola growers, they often find themselves with fewer crop protection options than canola growers do. So when Bayer recently announced its Buteo Start seed treatment for flea beetles would be available for mustard seed, mustard farmers welcomed the news. “That’s going […]

By Don Norman