Alberta’s wheat farmers can now add a Fusarium head blight (FHB) risk tool to their agronomy toolbox, improving their ability to make well-informed decisions related to FHB disease management. The risk tool was developed in a partnership between the Alberta Wheat...
A group of Australian National University (ANU) scientists has made a major breakthrough that could improve Australia’s food security during drought. The Canberra-based researchers have spent the past decade looking at the effects of drought on plants,...
Agricultural producers could, in the future, make use of better forecasts to more efficiently irrigate their fields using a Purdue-developed technology that could more accurately sense soil moisture below the surface through measuring the reflections of ...
What hybrid varieties have done for corn and canola is now occurring with rye, and should soon be happening with wheat. The yields of both corn and canola have steadily increased, with hybrid vigour (heterosis) as a major contributing factor. Hybrid production is much...
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. announced today that once the anticipated merger transaction closes, the new company will be named Nutrien. A news release today from Agrium states the new organization will be the global leader in reliable, low-cost crop...
