Grainews' greatest hits: 2024 in review - Grainews
Dec 25, 2024 · The horsepower race is back on again, Jan. 16, 2024, page 1. For several growing seasons, our machinery editor Scott Garvey was observing a sort of holding pattern in the horses available from the major tractor manufacturers, but as 2024 approached, the machinery makers stopped holding their horses, cranking up the muscle on their flagship models, including some touching and even crossing the ...
New pulses pending for 2025 - Grainews
Dec 4, 2024 · Canterra’s CS Prostar, shown here at the company’s site at Ag in Motion on July 17, is also marketed as an early-maturity variety, making it suitable for areas with a short growing season. photo: Dave Bedard CDC 6928 is a small red lentil variety with good yield potential, yielding nine per cent more than CDC Maxim. It has a seed size similar to CDC Simmie and is slightly taller than the ...
Video: Saskatchewan Farmers Gather to Run Vintage Combines
Dec 3, 2024 · Watch classic John Deere, Massey-Ferguson, and Case combines from the 50s and 60s run a field near Milden, Saskatchewan, at a fall farmer gathering.
Hybrid seed doesn’t just happen - Grainews
Sep 26, 2024 · That’s the commitment of long-time hybrid seed producers, HyTech Production Ltd., based at Lethbridge in southern Alberta, as over the past 26 years the company has refined a system to produce much of the hybrid seed used by Prairie farmers to grow more than 25 million acres of canola and other crop types each year.
Practical Production Tips & Agricultural News - Grainews
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.
What the weed seed smasher survey says - Grainews
Dec 18, 2024 · A recent study conducted by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides a glimpse into why some Canadian producers are using harvest weed seed control, the effectiveness of the technology and some of the challenges associated with it.
New soybean varieties for 2025 - Grainews
Sep 16, 2024 · Note: the following list includes only brand-new releases for 2025. BrettYoung. BY NEBO XT is an ultra-early variety with a relative maturity of 000.5 RM or 2150 CHU.This Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybean has an attractive phenotype …
Where species conservation was the aim of the game
Oct 24, 2024 · When I moved from Guelph to Edmonton in 1974, I quickly found out Alberta had the world’s biggest and most innovative game farm. It was called the Alberta Game Farm, later called Polar Park, some 25 km west of the city.
John Deere responds to tariff threat - Grainews
Oct 25, 2024 · Earlier in the year, John Deere had announced it was moving some production out of the U.S. to one of its plants in Mexico. It’s not the only brand to reveal it has moved, or will move, some production there in recent years. In fact, most brands either assemble or source components from plants all across the world, including low-cost production points such as in India.
How to choose between an in-bin or dedicated grain drying system
Oct 24, 2024 · The published results of the study found an advantage to the indirect system. “Although the indirect fired systems have a slightly lower combustion efficiency,” it reads, “the supply air has a lower relative humidity (combustion gases are exhausted) resulting in an overall lower specific energy when compared to direct fired systems.