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{ Monthly Archives } July 2009

Field Legal Descriptions

As you navigate to various fields, you will have to contend with legal descriptions such as SW 12-6-3E or RL 19 Rat River Parish.  Manitoba has two different way of providing legal descriptions for farm land: the older river lot system imported from Quebec and the Dominion Land Survey method used for most of the [...]

Squirt Test

While looking for information on possible manganese deficiency in wheat Tone Ag Consulting is scouting, I ran across Yellow Wheat Part II – Causes and Corrections. In it Keith Reid describes a simple field test for identifying nutrient deficiencies in the field. Mix ½ teaspoon of nutrient with water in a one liter hand spray [...]

What to do with special requests

Seth Godin recently had a post: What to do with special requests. We’ve had a lot of success with dealing with special requests. In some ways, dealing with special requests, particularly when it comes to rush soil sampling, is one of our niches. We can get out to a field and sample it the same [...]

Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day!