Insights and Stories on Crops

Mar. 31, 2023 at 9:07 am CDT

Last year, the national average canola yield in Canada came in at 38 bushels per acre, according to Statistics Canada. It’s an improvement on 25 bushels per acre in 2021, when drought conditions drove yields down across Western Canada, but it’s still well short of the 52-bushel-per-acre yield target the […]

By Mark Halsall

Feb. 17, 2023 at 9:33 am CST

There are all kinds of factors that will affect the success of any seeded crop. Some factors can be controlled, others can’t. Getting proper stand establishment certainly tops the list of key production practices for all crops, especially for optimizing canola yields, says an agronomist with the Canola Council of Canada […]

By Lee Hart

Jan. 13, 2023 at 11:36 am CST

Growing greenhouse crops under continuous lighting has been a dream since the 1930s and moved closer to reality with the advent of LED lighting. Now, a team of researchers at Agriculture and Agri-food Canada’s Harrow Research and Development Centre aims to make continuous lighting an actuality. Continuous lighting effectively spreads […]

By Stew Slater

Jan. 11, 2023 at 4:07 pm CST

Scott Beaton is an organic producer in Manitoba who grows a variety of cereal crops and forage species for grazing cattle. At a Manitoba Organic Alliance event in July 2022, Beaton shared his thoughts on some organic practices including how his organic crops have fared during several years of weather […]

Jan. 5, 2023 at 4:24 pm CST

A new study being conducted in Western Canada could soon provide growers with valuable insights on how to achieve more productive, sustainable and resilient cropping systems. Resilient Rotations is a comprehensive research project that aims to develop a new approach to crop rotations. The five-year study is being managed as […]

By Jim Timlick