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G’Day from Down Under! I apologize for the publication delay. It’s been a struggle to adjust to the time change and the busy schedule this time around. I ...
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Conference season is pushing on full steam ahead with an annual client meeting last week and a couple of presentations at FarmTech this week. On Saturday, I’m o...
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It was great to catch up with everyone at Agronomy Update last week. I took off my conference hat for a day to load grain. We sent six loads of wheat and a load of ca...
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The busy conference season continues with Agronomy Update in Red Deer, AB this week. All things are quite on the farming front as we deliver the last of our wheat and...
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Happy New Year! After some much needed down time over the holidays, I find myself ready for the busy travel season ahead. Today I’m en route to Minot, ND to spe...
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The 2013 crop year is quickly coming to a close and what a successful year it was for most. The conditions during seeding were ideal with few rain delays, followed by...
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I spent a few days last week attending the Bayer Crop Science Agronomy Summit in Banff, AB. There were 120 people in attendance and we discussed everything from fungi...
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Today I’m nestled in the Rockies at a Bayer Crop Science meeting until Thursday to discuss herbicide and fungicide technology as well as resistance management. ...
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We just wrapped up an another excellent Advanced Agronomy conference and took home some great nuggets of information. We discussed everything from record setting whea...
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Last week’s AgriTrade event was excellent and a great place to catch up with everyone after a busy season. I spent most of the time meeting with colleagues and ...
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There is at least eight inches of snow on the ground so it must be time for AgriTrade and the busy conference and meeting month of November. I’ll be attending A...
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While producers were busy finishing up the seasons work last week , I took the liberty of grabbing a late summer vacation with family and tried crab fishing along the...
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The fieldwork is nearly finished for the season with a touch of fall banding NH3 and broadcast elemental sulphur and sulphate fines left. Soil sampling is underway an...
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By now harvest is 99% complete and the combines and trucks have been replaced with heavy harrows, sprayers and floater trucks. Several folks are busy discing sprayer ...
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Harvest across my territory is 100% complete in the east and winding down in the west. Producers in the west have had rain delays along with cooler temperatures, whic...
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Welcome back! I enjoyed that two-week harvest break.
This bin busting harvest is nearly complete with producers in the eastern part of my territory 99% done and to...
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Harvest continues with a few rain delays over the weekend. I’d say we’re nearing 25% complete with a 7-day forecast for temps in the upper 20’s and ...
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Harvest is in full swing in the east and just about to begin in the west. Pea yields continue to be astonishing and early wheat and barley yields the same. I predict ...
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Warm, dry weather has set in with humidity levels dropping below 30%. Temperatures will continue in the high 20’s for the next week to ten days. Crops are turni...
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Last week brought warm temperatures and sporadic rainfall. Crops are really starting to turn and harvest is about to begin. Peas have been desiccated and will start t...
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We’ve finally had a dry spell with little rain and some decent temperatures. The 14-day trend calls for temps in the mid to high 20’s with a chance of sho...
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While the rains tapered off last week, the mild weather continues with temperatures in the low to mid twenties. The 14-day trend looks like a continuation of cool wea...
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The cool, wet weather continues. There was a low of 2C at the farm last night! That likely means frost in some low-lying areas throughout our region. The 14-day trend...
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Cooler temperatures coupled with rain and hail dominated the week. We’re now topping 12 inches of rain at the farm; most areas have had over 10 inches since mid...
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We had a great day and an excellent turn out at our CTF field day last Thursday. I always enjoy the good conversations that pop up and I was particularly excited abou...
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Crops are advancing quickly after the warmer temperatures last week. The high humidity and hot temperatures brought on a wicked hail storm that ripped through a narro...
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Wow, another inch of rain, bringing us to just over 200 mm (8 inches) in the last 40 days. Soils are saturated but crops are now reaching peak demand at 7mm/day so we...
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Another week of cooler weather goes by with rainfall tallying 8 to 10 inches in many areas not to mention extreme flooding throughout High River and downtown Calgary ...
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Oh, look at that, more rain. The cooler, wet weather we had last week will likely continue for the next 14 days. Crop progress is starting to fall behind the norm, wh...
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We’re full swing into wheat and canola herbicide spraying with the usual challenges of showers, wind, wind, showers followed by some hail and sunshine. I would ...
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We caught another 1.5 inches of rain over the weekend bringing us to five inches, even six in some areas, in the last two weeks. Low areas are starting to show signs ...
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The heavens opened up last Friday and dumped two inches of rain, more than three in some areas, across my territory. Everything is in good shape now and any seed that...
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Producers are wrapping up seeding in the west and are about 85% complete in the east. The 14-day trend calls for showers starting Thursday with temperatures in the lo...
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Seeding has progressed rapidly with the warm, dry, windy weather with producers 65% complete in the west and 45% complete in the east. The 14-day forecast calls for t...
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Seeding is progressing very well in the west towards Calgary at 20% complete while seeding in the east towards Drumheller has just begun. Mitch and I plan to start We...
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Seeding is finally underway in my territory with peas, fababeans and wheat hitting the ground first. Soil temperatures are averaging 5 to 6 degrees Celsius and hittin...
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The snow is slowly melting and spring runoff has come in stages, which has reduced the erosion potential. Stubborn snowdrifts may need to be seeded around in the begi...
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It’s hard to believe that at this time last year we were planting when today most of us are staring at snow banks. The weekend storm brought anywhere between 2 ...
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I joined the CTF Alberta group last week for a road trip to see stripper headers, disk drills, CTF set-ups and strip till units. It was a good trip and I gleaned some...
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I attended the Alberta Institute of Agrologists conference last week and took home a few interesting facts, such as, the world’s population has quadrupled since...
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Hello spring storms and fog. We may be just five weeks away from planting but the heavy snow pack and cold weather tells me otherwise for most of my territory.
Thi...
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I had an excellent time catching up with the 2013 Nuffield Scholars at this year’s Contemporary Scholars Conference in Niagara Falls. I had the privilege of clo...
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I arrived home safe and sound last Tuesday to a happy family and a boatload of jet lag. I’ll get over the jet lag just in time to speak at the Nuffield Contempo...
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So long Australia and hello New Zealand! I finished up the Aussie leg of my journey last week. So many miles covered, so many new connections! It was great to meet in...
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I’m writing to you from the Adelaide airport en route to Toowoomba, Queensland. We enjoyed a successful farm tour and no-till conference and found some great id...
