The Agronomists, Ep 147: Starter fertilizer decisions with Lyle Cowell and Peter Johnson
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by Lyndsey Smith, RealAgriculture
23h ago
When it comes to phosphorus, having early availability close to the seed is of utmost importance to support early seedling development. Too much phosphorus, too close can also cause seedling toxicity and death. What’s the right amount for starter fertilizer? There’s no one right answer, but there are several considerations for phosphorus management at seeding,... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 146: Saving nitrogen with Bryce Geisel and John Lauzon
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by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team, RealAgriculture
1w ago
Nitrogen fertilizer can be lost through volatilization, leaching, or denitrification depending on conditions. Farmers can adapt application practices and timing to minimize loss, and they can choose to have nitrogen fertilizer treated with an enhanced efficiency product. For a discussion on losses, loss management, and what product to use and when, this episode of The... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 145: The clubroot conundrum with Marissa Robitaille Balog and Stephen Stelkov
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by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team, RealAgriculture
2w ago
Clubroot is a persistent, destructive, soil-borne disease of canola that lurks in soil waiting to be carried by equipment, boots, wheels, or even wind to a new field. First found in an Alberta canola field over 20 years ago, clubroot is now found in each of the Prairie Provinces and some of the northern American... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 144: Quantifying soil health with Danny Jefferies, Dan Saurette and Dr. Jeff Schoenau
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by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team, RealAgriculture
3w ago
There are aspects of soil that are unchangeable — the amount of sand, silt, and clay, for example. But many other measures of soil can be nudged, either to the good or bad, when it comes to soil productivity and health. Organic matter, porosity, and bulk density are all changeable, but how do they impact... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 143: Starting off soybeans with Horst Bohner and Mike Weir
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by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team, RealAgriculture
1M ago
Soybean prices aren’t the shiny prize they were a year or so ago, and that has plenty of farmers sharpening the pencil on cropping plans. If input dollars are scarce (and they always are), where do you spend and where to do you save? For that conversation, when it comes to the most important pass,... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 142: Managing wheat midge with Drs. Santosh Kumar and Tyler Wist
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by Lyndsey Smith, RealAgriculture
1M ago
Orange wheat blossom midge — or simply, the wheat midge — devastated spring wheat yields in the ’90s. Since then, wheat breeders have been working hard to build protection into wheat varieties. To help with tips to scout for the pest, why spraying is a limited option, how Field Heroes help, and what’s new in... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 141: The power of rotation with Drs. Bobbi Helgason and Dave Hooker
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by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team, RealAgriculture
1M ago
For years, even decades, one crop’s boost in productivity because of following a different crop was put down as the “rotation effect.” As we begin to unravel what the rotation effect actually is, it’s clear that rooting depth and type, root exudates, and microbial population shifts all play a role in contributing to the bigger... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 140: Choosing biological products with Ryan Bonnett and Greg Stewart
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by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team, RealAgriculture
2M ago
Biological products, such as inoculants for pulses and soybeans, have been around a very long time, but the ever-expanding world of biological products now means that growers have options for hundreds of products that are supposed to do everything from stimulating root growth to helping plants recover from hail to fixing nitrogen. To help evaluate... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 139: The cover crop fit with Peter Johnson and Dr. Yvonne Lawley
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by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team, RealAgriculture
2M ago
Cover crops are not magic. It’s important to first understand the goal of using a cover crop and then measuring up each species and season to see if it’s a match. Farmers from east to west are using cover crops to accomplish several things: reducing erosion, cycling nutrients, fixing nitrogen, and fighting weeds, but that... Read More ..read more
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The Agronomists, Ep 138: Three ways to build canola yields with Jack Payne and Brunel Sabourin
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by RealAgriculture Agronomy Team, RealAgriculture
2M ago
Canola is an elastic, amazingly resilient plant, but it starts as a very tiny seed and emerges under threat of certain death by very hungry flea beetles. Setting up this crop for great yield is the typical combination of establishment, nutrition, and crop protection, but in this episode of The Agronomists, we dig in to... Read More ..read more
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