AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap …
Jan 10, 2025 · Justin Trudeau announces he plans to resign, canola’s ambitious yield goal seems out of reach, and the U.S. announces its first bird flu death. It’s your national agriculture news recap for the week of Jan. 10, 2025.
Practical Production Tips & Agricultural News - Grainews
Grainews, written for farmers, and often by farmers, provides practical production tips that farmers use to get on with the day-to-day business of farming.
New Dutch Agriculture opener knife prevents seed burn
Jan 3, 2025 · The UHS (Ultra High Separation) opener knife from Dutch Agriculture is designed for Seed Hawk air drills and adds an extra inch of horizontal seed-to-fertilizer separation, which helps avoid seed burn in drier conditions with high fertilizer application rates. photo: Dutch Agriculture graphic “We’ve been getting the separation we want without any more soil movement than any other type of ...
What the weed seed smasher survey says - Grainews
Dec 18, 2024 · A recent study conducted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides a glimpse into why some Canadian producers are using harvest weed seed control, the effectiveness of the technology and some of the challenges associated with it.
Editor's Rant: Cinquante! - Grainews
Jan 2, 2025 · With that earworm now lodged in place, we here at Grainews welcome the year 2025 — marking our 50th anniversary in print.. Now, our actual birthday doesn’t come around until this fall. In October 1975, the first edition of the paper rolled off the press with a front-page message from United Grain Growers’ (UGG) president Mac Runciman, in which he declared its purpose as “to provide ...
Early-gestating beef cows need good nutrition - Grainews
Dec 31, 2024 · One assumed consideration in all these just-under-$2 diets is to include an accompanying mineral-vitamin program.In this way, I often recommend to producers that they feed their cows a well-balanced yet less costly standard cow mineral for the first 90 days of early to mid-gestation and then switch their herd over to a breeder mineral formulated with organic trace minerals and higher vitamin ...
Ottawa blesses Bunge’s Viterra takeover, with conditions
Jan 15, 2025 · Transport Canada announced in September 2023 it would conduct the government’s “public interest assessment” of the Bunge-Viterra deal, specifically looking at “how the acquisition would impact competition in the transportation and agricultural sectors.”
Klassen: Stronger fed market to pull up feeder complex
Jan 7, 2025 · The Alberta fed cattle market was quoted on a live basis in the range of range of $262-$265/cwt fob feedlot last week. Fed cattle forward contracts for March and April delivery (Alberta) were quoted from $270 to $272/cwt. Compared to last week of November 2024, fed prices are up $20/cwt on average.
New canola hybrids for 2025 - Grainews
Sep 3, 2024 · BY 7204LL is a new LibertyLink hybrid from BrettYoung offering consistent yield performance over a variety of conditions. photo: BrettYoung BY 6219TF is a medium-maturity canola suitable for all growing season zones. This TruFlex hybrid is equipped with the Pod DefendR and Clubroot DefendR traits and it also contains the Rlm7 blackleg resistance gene.
Grainews' greatest hits: 2024 in review - Grainews
Dec 25, 2024 · The horsepower race is back on again, Jan. 16, 2024, page 1. For several growing seasons, our machinery editor Scott Garvey was observing a sort of holding pattern in the horses available from the major tractor manufacturers, but as 2024 approached, the machinery makers stopped holding their horses, cranking up the muscle on their flagship models, including some touching and even crossing the ...