5 Steps to Better...

Fertility Planning

Use these steps to establish your farm’s unique fertility plan for 2018. Once your plan is set, work with agronomic advisors and input suppliers to ensure you have the resources available when you need them.

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More Processing Requires More Canola

If four new canola processing plants announced earlier this year get built as planned, Canadian processors will have capacity to use 16-17 million tonnes of canola per year by 2025, up from around 11 million currently.

Fertility Management

Tips to improve safety of seed-placed fertilizer

Key result: Farmers can increase the seed safety of higher phosphorus rates by increasing seed bed utilization (narrower rows or wider openers) and applying only phosphorus (not nitrogen or sulphur) fertilizer in the seed row. Current recommendations for safe rates of seed-placed phosphorus (P) recommendations are based on one configuration: 1” opener and 9″ row...

Plant Establishment

How to improve seed distribution with air drills

Replace damaged or kinked air drill hoses immediately, and replace with the same length and diameter as the original. This is key to consistent air flow. “Understanding grain pneumatic conveying in seeding equipment,” Hubert Landry, Ian Paulson, and Samuel Ferré, Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute SaskCanola, Government of Manitoba under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership Prairie Agricultural...

Bold leaders wanted: Help shape the future of canola Our vision is bold action for canola farmers. We are seeking nominations of Manitoba Canola Grower Association (MCGA) members to run for our board of directors in the 2023-24 election. Join a board of directors that is committed to driving success for Manitoba canola farmers through...