I attended the Soils and Manure Management Field Workshop on Friday and learned quite a bit. A lot of the research that was shown is still in the early stages, so there will be a lot of good stuff to follow in years to come. Here are some of the highlights: Don Flaten and Clay [...]
It’s a little bit late for this year, but Bruce Barker had a good article in Top Crop Manager about why you should only Tank-mix cereal herbicides and fungicides with caution. Even on a wet year such as this one, the optimum timing for herbicide and fungicide effectiveness are quite different. This was discussed at [...]
I ended up attending the 2010 Crop Diagnostic School a week earlier than planned. There was a lot of stuff to see and learn. Here are some of the highlights. John Heard had his nutrient deficiency planters out again. One of them was a trick question – herbicide drift rather than a nutrient deficiency. The [...]
I found the post The Diagnostic Process and Helping the Lab Help You very interesting. We often send samples to the Diagnostic Lab so it’s interesting to see what they do with the samples.
Manitoba Crop Diagnostic School kicked off yesterday and I’m looking forward to attending next week. It never ceases to amaze me how much there is to learn about agriculture, even though humanity has been growing crops for thousands of years. One of the things that I appreciate about the Crop Diagnostic School is how intensely [...]
