Insights and Stories on Crops

Storing grain and marketing strategy

Jul. 22, 2016 at 8:53 am CDT

Storing grain on the farm can be a good marketing strategy because, if managed carefully, it can increase a producer’s profits, but it’s important to have a handle on your storage and opportunity costs to assess if it’s actually going to put money in the bank. The capital costs of […]

Taking the ‘beaniness’ out of beans

May. 5, 2016 at 4:40 pm CDT

By Shannon VanRaes

Are seed treatments worth the cost?

Apr. 22, 2016 at 10:10 am CDT

By Angela Lovell

One Kiwi’s secrets to growing record wheat

Mar. 18, 2016 at 9:38 am CDT

By Lilian Schaer

Waterhemp at the door

Mar. 4, 2016 at 10:30 am CST

By Ron Friesen

High-disturbance seeding can be as erosive as a plow

Feb. 12, 2016 at 10:05 am CST

The era of black summerfallow is over, and direct seeding and zero tillage have pretty much solved problems of soil erosion on the Prairies. Or so goes conventional wisdom. Not so, says David Lobb, a professor in the University of Manitoba’s department of soil science and senior research chair for […]

By Allan Dawson

Fertilizer prices, now and into spring

Feb. 5, 2016 at 10:16 am CST

The time to buy fertilizer is now, if you don’t have enough stored up on the farm. December and January, if you look at numbers from the last ten years, is the best time to buy fertilizers if you have the resources and space, says Todd Bergen-Henengouwen, project assistant at […]

By Dilia Narduzzi

Spraying crops later is your best bet

Jan. 22, 2016 at 9:27 am CST

A plant in the morning dew is a little like a man stepping out of a shower — wet and cold, and that much colder because it’s wet. “The phase change between a liquid and a gas sucks heat energy out of the plant. That practice will actually hurt the […]

By Jennifer Blair

Raised on the radio

Dec. 31, 2015 at 9:50 am CST

At harvest, whatever cab I happen to find myself in is my cocoon of creature comforts. I have my beverages — both caffeinating and lubricating; my snacks for both sustenance and entertainment; a phone which connects me to the outside world by letting me talk to friends and neighbours with […]

By Sarah Weigum

The new way into farming

Dec. 4, 2015 at 10:32 am CST

A decade ago, a fresh-faced group of graduates jumped into a grain industry beaten down by prices and Prairie drought, and a livestock industry ravaged by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) debacle. It was hardly the best of times. By the end of 2004, a year and a half after […]

By Maggie Van Camp

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