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1. Beware Early Grazing of Stressed Plants

   ... leaves on the stem, says Iwanchysko. “You have to really get down on your hands and knees and assess the actual grass plants,” ... pounds per head per day of 20 per cent crude protein and 80 per cent total digestible nutrients in the form of mill-run pellets or wheat ...

   angel.dolan - Mar 25 2024 - 12:20 - 0 comments

2. Research Spotlight: ‘Floating Islands’

   ... for one farmer. Tannas Conservation Services, who have patented the design of the floating islands that Olds College are testing, ... of the ponds,” says Karran. The islands are “about 4.5 x 8.0' in size. Then inside it, there’s a soil medium. It’s a peat moss ...

   angel.dolan - Apr 23 2024 - 09:32 - 0 comments

3. Opportunities In Carbon Sequestration

   ... carbon. They both occur in soils, but some soils will have more organic carbon and less inorganic carbon, and vice versa. There are ... Cross says it’s essential to commit to it. “We really do it. Lots of people say they do it, but they really don’t,” says ...

   angel.dolan - Apr 23 2024 - 09:32 - 0 comments

4. Opportunities in Carbon Sequestration

   ... that carbon stays intact. “What often happens is we have four years of alfalfa and all that carbon in the root mass, and we come in ... Cross says it’s essential to commit to it. “We really do it. Lots of people say they do it, but they really don’t,” says ...

   angel.dolan - Apr 23 2024 - 09:32 - 0 comments

5. Choosing A Guidance System

   ... be the accuracy within 15 minutes, but the guidance world really opens up in year-to-year functionality,” explains Wallace. “A ... double antenna for ultra-slow operations. It goes as slow as 80 meters an hour, and that can hold sub-inch accuracy. It’s great for guys ...

   angel.dolan - Dec 19 2023 - 16:19 - 0 comments

6. Ag Co-ops: Training Our Next Generation

   ... age of your current team, and last thing you want is to not have any young people to move along with the business as it ages and grows,” ... eyes-on experience, and witnessing what people are doing, is really beneficial. It’s the real-world experiential piece,” explains Silvio ...

   angel.dolan - Mar 25 2024 - 12:20 - 0 comments

7. Business Management: Still Room to Improve

   ... and alongside family, and producing food for the world have all come under the umbrella of “farm lifestyle,” a lifestyle that’s ... if the banks collectively got together and said, ‘We really want to see this from our ag clients,’” Gerencser says. But the ...

   angel.dolan - Mar 25 2024 - 12:20 - 0 comments

8. Handling Pesticides: Don’t Forget About Safety.

   ... exposure for the operator. “Applicators need to be really cautious and read the label. If you have 2,000 acres to spray every year with the same herbicide, over 10 years and ...

   angel.dolan - Mar 25 2024 - 12:20 - 0 comments

9. Research solves practical swine industry problems

   ... the genetic progress of the last 20 years, so we can have a large positive impact,” she explains. As someone who was raised on ... data behind those ideas,” she says. “We’re seeing some really interesting results, and we are now applying those results to see if the ...

   angel.dolan - Mar 25 2024 - 12:20 - 0 comments

10. Farmers Under Pressure to Mitigate Interest Rate Impacts

    No Rate Cuts Imminent By Richard Kamchen Farmers could use relief from high ... reverberations of today’s relatively high interest rates have been felt throughout the farming sector. Weersink says the effects ... “Our grain clients over the last few years have had some really good years, so most of them aren’t carrying high debt loads on their ...

    angel.dolan - Nov 23 2023 - 14:11 - 0 comments