With extreme lodging, it can take as much as five days to harvest a quarter-section of peas. A four-year project examined...
Agronomy
Getting Your Seed Ready for Spring — a Handy Checklist
Look after your seed quality Double check your seed quality — remember fields sprayed with a pre-harvest product could...
Alberta Agriculture’s Blue Book Now Available
One of the most widely requested publications from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AF) is the Crop Protection...
Monitor for Insect Pests this Growing Season
Specialists at Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AF) are working to have fields predetermined for the 2018 insect survey...
Wind Farms Positively Impact Crops, U.S. Study Says
Iowa State University researchers have found that wind turbines located in agricultural fields are a plus for the crops...
A New Day in Dust Reduction
As farmers prepare for spring planting, a feeling of anticipation hangs in the air. What doesn’t hang in the air? Dust-off...
Riding the Western Soybean Wave
Soybeans were once unheard on the Prairies. Now, they’re marching west from Manitoba to Alberta, with no end to acreage...
Blackleg and Clubroot in Canola
Blackleg and clubroot are both serious diseases that are growing in severity across Alberta, but with proper and diligent...
Eye in the sky
The benefits of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones as crop scouting tools are obvious. They enable farmers to...