Practical Production Tips & Agricultural News - Grainews
Stories from our other publications. 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.
News & Production Tips - Grainews
2024年8月11日 · Organic Connections conference and trade show. Prairieland Park — 503 Ruth St. W., Saskatoon. Grainews provides farmers information about News and practical production tips that they use to get on with the day-to-day business of farming.
Markets & Production Tips - Grainews
China to grow more corn in 2024/25. By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 3 days ago. Corn production in China is expected to increase to 293 million tonnes in 2024/25, said a report from the United States Department of Agriculture attache in Beijing, with improved yields overriding a slight reduction in harvested area. Futures.
Vegetable crop production on the Prairies - Grainews
2024年1月15日 · Cattle manure, peat moss and composts are generally poor sources of plant-essential nutrients but excellent as soil amendments, particularly for their water-holding capabilities — particularly important in dry years. Cole or cabbage crops are the most difficult crops to grow on Prairie cropland. The reason: canola.
Farm Life & Production Tips - Grainews
2024年9月25日 · To avoid fatigue, breathe. Fit to Farm: Deliberate breath can help influence energy levels, focus and level of alertness. By Kathlyn Hossack September 25, 2024. As a new season approaches, so too do long hours of driving for many farmers. One problem that presents when we deal with prolonged periods of driving, whether in the field or on the ...
Understand herbicide groups - Grainews
2012年3月5日 · Group 2 – Amino acid inhibitor/ALS Inhibitors Grass and broadleaf herbicides. Group 2s stop the production of amino acids, which are used in the plant to build protein. Without proteins, plants will die. Plant death with this group is often slow (two to three weeks) but plant growth will stop quite quickly. Symptoms most often show up at the ...
Cattleman’s Corner & Production Tips - Grainews
By Jerry Klassen August 20, 2024. The beef market appears to have made a seasonal high during the first week of July. Wholesale choice beef prices reached up to US$329/cwt during the week ending July 6 before fading to US$319/cwt during the third week of July. Weaker wholesale values have resulted in lower U.S. fed cattle values.
John Deere offers a universal, aftermarket, auto-steer system
2021年1月21日 · John Deere aims to solve that issue via its universal, aftermarket, auto-steer system. The AutoTrac Controller 300 offers customizable precision guidance to a wide variety of new and older non-guidance-ready machine platforms and brands with no impact to operator ergonomics and no steering wheel modifications. Read Also.
Homemade recipes to help control apple maggots and ants
2015年5月15日 · Create a mixture of 1/4 to 1/2 cup lime juice with 4 litres of water and spray the solution on plants where bug infestations are prominent. This homemade spray serves as an irritant to destroy and keep away mites, aphids, sawfly worms and other smaller insects. One word of caution about lime solution when overused.
Cover cropping on the Prairies - Grainews
2023年4月20日 · The survey showed many non-grazing farmers grew cover crops on a relatively small percentage of their acres in 2020, including the following data: Under 10 per cent of farm area — 25 per cent. 10 to 19 per cent of farm area — …