[UPDATED] Advance Tank Production Ltd. won the top award in the equipment category in the 2024 Ag In Motion Innovation Program. The company’s biogas slurry tank was the winning entry, a high-speed emptying and filling machine that uses three pumps to load water at about 12,000 litres per minute and unload at about 16,000 litres […] Read more
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WATCH: Liquid slurry trailer won top innovation prize at AIM
Western Canadian crops rebound in 2024
Glacier FarmMedia’s Bruce Burnett took advantage of the drive to Ag In Motion to cast his experienced eye on the Prairie’s crop prospects this growing season. He found that crop conditions are vastly improved over last year, especially in the southwest Prairies. However, the heat forecast for the end of this week could have a […] Read more
AgGronomyTV: Keeping weeds in check
Do you know what the three approaches to integrated weed management are? Anne Kirk, cereal crop specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, made this the focal point of her demonstration at the 2024 instalment of Crop Diagnostic School in Carman, Man. Hear some of her recommendations about keeping weeds at bay, here.
AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it: Your national ag news recap for July 12, 2024
VIDEO: Ag robots ‘have to make sense’ for farmers
Chuck Baresich, a founding member of Agrobotics Working Group, discusses France’s Naïo Orio’s potential, successes and challenges during field trials in beets and carrots at the Ontario Crops Research Centre in the Bradford/Holland Marsh in-field demo day on July 4.
AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it: Your national ag news recap for July 5, 2024
VIDEO: Assessing fusarium head blight risk in wheat
Scout winter wheat fields and make a plan for harvest
Warm, damp conditions in 2024 have made for greater fusarium head blight risk in Ontario’s wheat crop. In this video Albert Tenuta, OMAFA Provincial Field Crop Pathologist and Joanna Follings, OMAFA’s Provincial Cereals Specialist go through the risk this year, how to scout for and assess fusarium head blight in fields and how to manage […] Read more
AgGronomyTV: High precipitation = high risk for sclerotinia
Given the high amounts of rain in southern Manitoba as of late, the risk for sclerotinia developing in crops is likely on the upswing. So what should growers of canola, sunflower and other crops be on the lookout for? In this past video from the 2022 Crop Diagnostic School – and with the new crop school season imminent – field crop pathologist David Kaminski reminds growers what should be on their radar.
AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it: Your national ag news recap for June 28, 2024
VIDEO: The value in swine 4-H
The Bacon Maker Classic returned to the Ontario Pork Congress on June 20, 2024, for the first time since 2019. The 4-H swine show had 28 members who registered and 26 brought their pigs to Stratford for the show. All the pigs coming to the show had to be tested the week before for Porcine […] Read more
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