Insights and Stories of Lisa Guenther

May. 17, 2013 at 4:05 am CDT

Providing agronomists with detailed information on a problem field can help field visits go well — but farmers also need to know agronomists might not have a solution right away. “Your job is to collect the information to help with the diagnostics. A lot of times you’ll want to guess […]

By Lisa Guenther

May. 17, 2013 at 3:34 am CDT

Saskatchewan has jumped straight from flooding into fire season this spring. The fire department at Meadow Lake, in the province’s northwest, stamped out a small grass fire on Monday that started in the ditch of a side road between two fields. “It was kind of causing some smoke conditions on […]

By Lisa Guenther

May. 14, 2013 at 5:17 am CDT

As Prairie farmers gear up for seeding, yield-robbing weeds will be on their minds. Here are six tips for effective weed control. Residuals “It’s really important to think about what crops are safe to plant this spring,” said Kristen Phillips, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, during a […]

By Lisa Guenther

May. 10, 2013 at 5:48 pm CDT

Winter was reluctant to relinquish its death grip on Saskatchewan this year, leaving ranchers with dwindling feed supplies and delayed pasture growth. “We heard a lot from producers right before the snow was melting there. People were getting a little concerned because they were running short on feed, quality was […]

By Lisa Guenther

May. 7, 2013 at 5:36 pm CDT

Farmers in southern Alberta are reporting cutworms in winter wheat and fields that had green growth late into last fall, according to the Alberta agriculture department’s entomologist. Scott Meers says the pests look like army cutworms, but he’s working on confirming that. Producers are finding cutworms in the Vauxhall, Taber […]

By Lisa Guenther