Insights and Stories on Crops

Creating a cold-tolerant alfalfa

Apr. 8, 2020 at 10:32 am CDT

Rows and rows of white metal cabinets resembling refrigerators line the basement of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Research Centre in Quebec City. In fact, they are plant growth chambers that contain bright grow lights and potted alfalfa plants at different stages of maturity. In another area of the […]

Rural Ontarians push back against pot production

Jan. 10, 2020 at 11:23 am CST

By John Greig

Managing risk in a bad harvest year

Dec. 20, 2019 at 10:27 am CST

By Brian Wittal

Alberta pair gets twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity to start farming

Dec. 13, 2019 at 10:21 am CST

By Jennifer Blair

Growing Canola in Canada’s east

Nov. 15, 2019 at 10:30 am CST

By Ralph Pearce

Training dogs to detect clubroot in the field

Nov. 1, 2019 at 10:21 am CDT

Any dog lover knows that dogs can do amazing things. Add to that list the ability to detect clubroot in canola. “The idea behind using dogs as detectors has been around for quite a long time. Using them to detect crop diseases has been around for the last five years […]

By Alexis Kienlen

VIDEO: Tips for growing soybeans in Saskatchewan

Oct. 23, 2019 at 11:22 am CDT

Michelle Dick, market agronomist with Cargill, talks about some of the challenges that have faced Saskatchewan soybean growers in recent years and some of the management practices producers can use to help ensure a successful soybean stand. (Recorded at Ag in Motion 2019) Video editing by Greg Berg.

Pod shatter resistant canola to put swathers out to pasture

Oct. 18, 2019 at 10:13 am CDT

Western Canadian farmers have adopted pod shatter reduction canola faster than expected — and industry officials predict the innovation, which is as much about harvest flexibility as straight cutting, will soon be on almost every acre. “InVigor (canola from BASF), which is on more than half of the acres in […]

By Allan Dawson

Mechanical issues often cause grain dryer fires

Oct. 11, 2019 at 10:11 am CDT

When it comes to reducing the risk of on-farm fires, maintenance and prevention are a farmer’s best defence. Dave McEachren, a Glencoe, Ont., grain farmer, who is also a volunteer firefighter and captain of the Southwest Middlesex Fire Department, confirms the leading causes of fire and calls to emergency services […]

By Jeanine Moyer

How to get your farm ready to sell to the EU

Sep. 27, 2019 at 10:38 am CDT

Doyle Weibe, who farms near Saskatoon, Sask., is one western Canadian farmer who is ready with his sustainable farming certification when the expected demand to supply canola to the European Union (EU) biofuel market breaks. With a poor crop in parts of the EU in 2019, Canadian grain marketers say […]

By Lee Hart

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