Insights and Stories on Agronomy

Agronomy for better decision-making in the field

Mar. 25, 2025 at 11:31 am CDT

At Manitoba Ag Days earlier this year, Brunel Sabourin with Antara Agronomy offered a presentation on how growers can more effectively use on-farm data for better decision-making in the field. Sabourin, an agronomist and certified crop advisor, spoke about how growers can apply benchmarks to their farm operations, how technology […]

Agronomists give predictions at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show 2024

Sep. 10, 2024 at 4:58 pm CDT

By Kristy Nudds

MNP to launch agronomy practice

Jul. 15, 2024 at 1:11 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Flax production lowest since 1967, StatCan predicts

Sep. 15, 2023 at 4:44 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

At Ag in Motion: Ag innovation winners unveiled

Jul. 18, 2023 at 4:50 pm CDT

Soil health main focus of cover-croppers

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

Supply chain working but canola groups have concerns

Apr. 28, 2020 at 7:58 pm CDT

There have been no issues so far with supplies of inputs and parts, transportation or oilseed processing during the pandemic, canola industry officials report. “We’ve been really focused on making sure farmers have access to inputs and resources to get the 2020 crop in the ground,” Canola Council of Canada […]

By Alexis Kienlen

Telus buys Farm At Hand

Aug. 19, 2019 at 2:44 am CDT

Vancouver farm management software development firm Farm At Hand has become an arm of one of the Big Five in Canada’s communication services sector. Farm At Hand, which makes the cloud-based Crop Planner software suite for farmers and the Farm At Hand Agronomy suite for agronomists, announced Tuesday it has […]

By GFM Staff

Sylvite set to buy Thompsons agronomy business

Aug. 6, 2019 at 8:13 pm CDT

Ontario grain and bean handler Thompsons Ltd. is set to sell its crop agronomy business to a retail business partner in that province. U.S. grain firm The Andersons, the owner of Thompsons since January, announced Tuesday in its second-quarter report it plans to sell Thompsons’ “agronomy assets” to Burlington, Ont.-based […]

By GFM Staff