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Soil test to optimize yield, profit and fertilizer efficiency

Recommendations from a six-year study on soil-test-based fertilizer decisions include: Reduce tillage intensity and utilize recommended nutrient recommendations to help improve soil aggregate stability and root characteristics.

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Optimum row spacing depends on many factors, including weeds

Key result: Canola is relatively insensitive to increasing row spacing. Farmers have many factors to consider in determining their optimal row spacing, including weed and residue management strategies. Project title, Principal investigator: “Investigating wider row spacing in no-till canola: Implications for weed competition, response to nitrogen fertilizer, and seeding rate recommendations (2013-2016)” Chris Holzapfel, Indian...

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Use ‘big data’ when it provides a clear benefit

Terry Griffin from Kansas State University says farmers don’t need to rush into data collection, sharing and analysis. When the business case is strong enough, farmers will move into that space in a big way.

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Alignment

Citizens globally and governments expect agricultural producers to grow more food per acre of arable land and do so while preserving soil and water health, air quality, and biodiversity. This is what ‘sustainability’ has come to mean. The Canola Council of Canada (CCC) is guided by Keep It Coming 2025 (keepitcoming.ca), the strategic plan for...

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Understand the limitations of combine grain-loss monitors

You can’t manage what you can’t measure. That adage from the business world also applies to harvest grain losses. While current grain loss monitors have been slowly improving over time, they still do not directly correlate actual grain loss to the grain loss signal. As a result, grain loss monitors do not provide operators with...