Sugar beets are grown on more than 300 farms across Canada.

Vive launches Phobos FC fungicide for sugar beets

Vive Crop Protection Inc. has launched a new foliar fungicide, Phobos FC, to help sugarbeet growers control Cercospora leaf spot. Phobos FC fungicide combines Vive’s Allosperse delivery technology with prothioconazole to provide superior protection against Cercospora leaf spot while delivering maximum yield and sugar content. Using patented nano-polymers, Vive says Allosperse optimizes the active ingredient, enabling […] Read more

The Robotti unit has 70 horsepower and a three-point hitch, so implements like planters, cultivators, strip till units and sprayers can be attached.

VIDEO: Autonomous equipment evolves on the farm

A tour put on by Ontario’s Autonomous Working Group shows reliability and field uses increase for farm robots

Autonomous equipment use in Ontario agriculture is growing, but mostly in areas where crop value is high and the challenge of finding human help for crop care has dire consequences for farm profitability. For example, Haggerty AgRobotics has nine Naio Oz units leased to Ontario farmers, most of them market garden farmers who use the […] Read more