AGGronomyTV: What’s ‘bugging’ Manitoba growers in 2023?

August 15 to 31: At this year's Crop Diagnostic School, John Gavloski, extension entomologist with Manitoba Agriculture, highlighted a number of insect pests growers were keeping an eye on this year. Here, Gavloski shares which bugs have been getting much of the attention in 2023 and some 'good news' for growers on at least one insect front.



Weather and harvest update

Glacier FarmMedia senior editor Gord Gilmour, and MarketsFarm’s director of weather and markets, Bruce Burnett, discuss their latest take on crop conditions, harvest operations and the weather.


AGGronomyTV: How corn responds to dry conditions

August 1 to 15: Earlier in July at the Crop Diagnostic School in Carman, Morgan Cott with the Manitoba Crop Alliance spoke to how the province’s corn crop was doing given that much of it was planted into dry soil this spring.



How corn responds to dry conditions

How corn responds to dry conditions

It’s been a dry summer on many parts of Prairies, and if you’ve happened to be walking the fields in agro-Manitoba, there’s a good chance you’ve kicked up dust. Earlier in July at the Crop Diagnostic School in Carman, Morgan Cott with the Manitoba Crop Alliance spoke to how the province’s corn crop was doing […] 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


Steve Kenyon. Photo: Laura Rance

Got gophers? Invite a raptor to dinner

In many cattle ranchers’ minds, there’s no such thing as a good gopher. However, custom grazier Steven Kenyon, who practises regenerative agriculture on his Alberta operation, sees them as neither friend nor foe. “They’re part of the system,” he said in an interview during a pasture tour organized by the Canadian Forage and Grassland Association […] Read more

Derek Johnson of AGI. (Ag in Motion video screengrab)

At Ag in Motion: Bin thinking?

Prairies' grain storage needs getting larger

Farms are getting larger, and so are the grain storage solutions. AGI’s Derek Johnson spoke to Glacier FarmMedia senior editor Gord Gilmour about Western Canada’s unique grain storage needs at Ag in Motion near Langham, Sask.