Insights and Stories on Crops

Is Canada ready for a world awash in Russian wheat?

Dec. 21, 2016 at 3:00 pm CST

For many Canadian grain growers, this year’s weather concerns, disease pressure, high input costs, and low crop prices made it seem like we’ve already been facing the perfect storm. However, there is an even bigger threat on the horizon — Russia. In the first week of October, while most Canadian […]

A look at G3’s proposed new Vancouver grain terminal

Nov. 25, 2016 at 9:49 am CST

By Allan Dawson

Bayer Agronomy Summit – 2016

Nov. 24, 2016 at 12:00 am CST

Potashium: fertilizer mergers

Oct. 28, 2016 at 9:46 am CDT

By Les Henry

Herbicide resistance quietly growing problem in Manitoba

Sep. 30, 2016 at 10:43 am CDT

By Ron Friesen

Good reasons to plant cover crops

Sep. 23, 2016 at 10:03 am CDT

If you went to a workshop about cover crops 10 years ago you wouldn’t have had any trouble finding an empty seat. Today, producers pack these workshops. Word is spreading about the benefits that cover crops could bring to their farms. Cover crops provide many soil and production benefits: increased […]

By Angela Lovell

When should you soil test? Right after the combine

Sep. 2, 2016 at 3:15 pm CDT

It’s been the accepted wisdom to soil test as late as possible in the fall, but one soil test lab says it might pay to go earlier. Agvise Laboratories, that has soil-testing labs in North Dakota and Minnesota and a large stable of Canadian customers, told growers in a recent […]

By Allan Dawson

Building up the soil in your fields

Aug. 26, 2016 at 10:34 am CDT

New research is showing that it is possible to make new, nutrient rich, productive soil on your farm without waiting for eons, simply by changing your crop rotation and management. The research, led by Dr. Stuart Grandy at the University of New Hampshire, is revising our conventional understanding of how […]

By Angela Lovell

Craft beer boom drives demand for new malt barley varieties

Aug. 12, 2016 at 8:43 am CDT

New malt barley varieties will soon hit the market to meet the growing demands of a burgeoning craft brewing industry. “The brewing and malting industry is changing,” said Pat Juskiw, a barley breeder with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. “In the past, our industry has been composed of big companies — […]

By Jennifer Blair

Threshers break world record at Austin

Aug. 5, 2016 at 9:43 am CDT

Hundreds of volunteers donned overalls and heaved sheaves on Sunday to re-enact a Prairie harvest scene on the grandest scale the world has ever seen. More than 148 antique threshing outfits rattled, hissed and ‘chuff-chuff-chuffed,’ tended by 700 participants, in the Guinness World Record attempt at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum […]

By Lorraine Stevenson

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