January 1, 2015 | Pat Beaujot
Yes, it turns out, you can teach an old dog new tricks. I’m very thankful for that fact as 2014 comes to a close, as more and more studies were released throughout this year not only on the changes that are taking place in terms of the climate , but many studies were devoted to what should be, as farmers, considered our most precious resource, our soil.
Soil is our lifeline, it is what makes or breaks a crop, along with sufficient warmth and rainfall, and it is quickly becoming the centre of more and more discussion in coffee shops and garages, as we all try to digest all of the information being thrown at us about what we can do to “save our soil”. Even the UN has taken up the cause, and has declared 2015 to be The International Year of Soils, which kicked off on World Soil Day, December 5th. You will see many initiatives over the next year to encourage soil health practices to spread across the globe. I encourage you to participate in these initiatives, and be …
November 14, 2014 | Pat Beaujot
http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=11062#.VEknoArpNNA.email The above press release came out on a study done by the UC Davis in California that was published last month. Several headlines, circulated widely online and on social media, stated that no-till agriculture isn’t going to be able to yield enough food to feed an ever-growing population. When the press release came out …
October 27, 2014 | Debbie Sutherland
How to deal with wet fields has certainly become a topic for the eastern part of the prairies. I have talked to several concerned farmers who I am sure a few years ago swore they would never till again. These are farmers who came through the 90s, worked hard to develop a no-till system that …
September 29, 2014 | Pat Beaujot
In mid-September I travelled to England and Sweden to tour some farms and learn more about different cropping conditions in Europe. The weather was great, the food, fantastic, and I was so busy learning and talking to folks that I didn’t get to tweet much about it in real time. Instead, I have put all …
August 15, 2014 | Pat Beaujot
Fall banding nitrogen vs. broadcast in areas where volume and concentration are a concern. At the Farm Progress Show in Regina in June of this year I had several good conversations with our customers in the black soil zone who are starting to set and achieve yield goals in the 70-90bu range for canola and …
