I’ve been going through our crop scouting records from previous years and it never ceases to amaze me just how useful they are. We had glyphosate-resistant volunteer canola pop up in a field and thanks to the notes we’ve kept it was easy to track down the last time Roundup Ready Canola had been planted [...]
I recently ran across this presentation on Soil Survey in Manitoba (PDF) by Sheila Meyer, R. Wu, and Y. Zhang. It provides a very nice introduction to Soil Surveys. The two questions it answers are: What is a Soil Survey? and What are Soil Surveys used for? It’s definitely worth reading. If you need a [...]
The Canadian Wheat Board has expanded their offerings via the WeatherBug network. WeatherFarm offers a more complete weather service including forecasts and historical data for weather stations across Manitoba. You just need to create a login and you’re good to go. This will be tremendously valuable to us for crop scouting and for damage claims.
This year we’re doing some ramp calibration strips on peat soil. Most of the soil that we deal with is clay or sand, but we have a few clients that have considerable amounts of peat soils in their fields. Due to their high organic matter, there is a significant amount of nitrogen that may be [...]
Farmers managed to get quite a bit of seeding done before the rains came – since then things have been pretty much at a standstill. So far the cold weather doesn’t seem to have affected any of our clients’ crops severely. There has been a decent amount of growth of both crops and weeds, so [...]
A Nutrient Excretion Model is a way of measuring the nutrients that come onto a farm and accounting for where they leave the farm. We’ve been working on Nutrient Excretion Models for a few years and have had great success with them. The model highlights places where farmers are paying to have too much phosphorous [...]
