Insights and Stories on Crops

Jul. 13, 2023 at 5:12 pm CDT

You’ve sprayed the weeds in your field and hung your hat on a job well done. Maybe not so fast. Dennis Lange, provincial pulse and soybean specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, suggests it’s doubly important to scout for weeds that potentially escaped herbicide treatment (if any) and quickly find out why. […]

Jul. 6, 2023 at 4:40 pm CDT

Wireworms can dig deep into the soil to avoid frost and survive cold temperatures, according to research out of Prince Edward Island. Christine Noronha, an entomologist with Agriculture Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Charlottetown, recently studied how deep, and at what times, wireworms were on the move in the soil. Varieties […]

By Geralyn Wichers

Jun. 9, 2023 at 11:54 am CDT

In just a few years, crop spraying could become largely a thing of the past. Nanotechnology may take its place using its ability to target specific crop pests. Farmers hear a lot of such whizzy claims. But a Lethbridge researcher is so confident in nanotech-based crop protection that he’s working to […]

By Jeff Melchior

Jun. 2, 2023 at 3:12 pm CDT

Seeding is pretty much finished for #plant2023 — and now it’s up to Mother Nature. Glacier FarmMedia’s Gord Gilmour spoke to Bruce Burnett, MarketsFarm’s director of weather and markets, about how it’s looking and what to expect as the crop really starts to take off.

Jun. 2, 2023 at 2:22 pm CDT

Early adopters of various farm practices often provide valuable information. It was farmers like these that, through trial and error, perfected the zero-till system and direct seeding, for example. But they’re all working in isolation, and maybe swapping a few ideas over the internet or at the occasional conference. The […]

By Gord Leathers