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I’m writing this newsletter from 38,000 feet traveling 883 km/hr over the Pacific Ocean en route to Adelaide, AU. I’ll be writing from the road for the ne...
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Just one week until I leave for Australia and New Zealand and the itinerary is really shaping up. I’m visiting with some top producers in South Australia and ...
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My week at FarmTech was full of meetings, good presentations, and great conversations. Stuart Barden, my guest from Kenya, did an excellent job of key noting in fro...
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After six days in Alberta, our Aussie-Kenyan guests now consider -1C to actually be quite warm. What a shock to jump from the combine seat in Kenya to experie...
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I’ve been busy preparing for our Beyond Agronomy client meeting this Thursday and can’t wait to get the group together again. We have Aussie-Kenyan gues...
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For the last week I’ve been buried in yield maps, grid sample maps, zone maps and statistical correlation tables while trying to uncover the lost arc in the w...
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Thank you Tom for noticing the correction in Strategy 2 in the article land rental agreements. See below!
Welcome to Volume 8 of Beyond Agronomy News! It all sta...
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This is the 46th and final issue of Beyond Agronomy News for 2012. Where did the year go! Let’s recap the season and then cruise through some top artic...
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My recent run of presentations is nearly finished. Last week was the Pulse Growers Association on the benefits of inter-row seeding pulse crops and this week...
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It was another successful Advanced Agronomy Conference in Edmonton this year. Clay Mitchell blew our minds with his on farm trials and the way he approaches ...
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We arrived home safe and sound on Saturday after a long journey from Nairobi. Now it’s time to readjust to the time change and get ready for the busy weeks ...
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I’m rounding day 17 in Kenya and my perspective of African agriculture has been completed turned upside down. This continent is not all desert, sand an...
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Greetings from Kenya! We arrived safe and sound last Friday night to an excellent welcome. Within a few hours of arrival our African adventure was in full sw...
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Fall spraying is just about wrapped up and fall NH3 application is mid-swing. I am seeing a lot of green out in the fields- foxtail barley, dandelions and ev...
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Farmers have been busy getting field work done from disking sloughs and headlands to fall spraying and the beginning of some fall applied Avadex. Fertilizer ...
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Another great week of weather has passed allowing producers to finish up harvest. Sprayers and heavy harrows have been zipping across the fields. Regrowth on...
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We’re nearing the end of harvest. Most of my clients are finished and the rest will be wrapping up this week. Now it’s time to switch gears and c...
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We’re now on the tail end of harvest in our area and it looks like more great weather is ahead for this week. The back to back wind storms took a bite ...
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I apologize for the tardiness of the newsletter this week as we were just finishing up peas. As you can see in the photo, the resident antelope herd kept me ...
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Pea harvest is now at the half way mark with yield averages hovering around 50-55 bu/ac. Malt barley harvest has just begun with yield averages around 90 to ...
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The 2012 harvest is just gearing up with the first of the peas coming off, some malt barley swathing and early wheat being preharvested. Pea yields have been...
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Who hasn’t had hail this year, raise your hands. Storms continue to rip through the territory and most of my clients have been hit to some degree. Mitc...
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Last week brought cooler weather and shower events through the area along with a few severe hail storms. Crops that haven’t gotten thumped by hail are ...
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Seeding overlaps and draws have started to lodge in many areas and some localized areas were laid flat after last Friday’s wind storm. It’s diffi...
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Last week’s hot temperatures really brought crops along quickly. There are a few areas in my territory that seem to be missing the timely rains and hav...
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The last week brought heat, hail storms, tornados and heavy showers to many parts of my territory. Some farms were hit twice with major storms. Crops are pro...
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Timely rains and warm temperatures have made for another excellent week. It’s a greenhouse out there and crop potential is huge in some areas. Humid co...
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Crops are coming along nicely with more rainfall last week and 20C+ temperatures. Late-April wheat is now full flag leaf with some heading out as well as bar...
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Crops are progressing nicely across the territory. Canola is beginning to bolt and late-April seeded barley is coming into flag leaf. Crops are shorter than ...
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Crops are progressing quickly after 1 to 2 inches of rain across my territory last week. Daytime temperatures in the high teens have been ideal for tillering...
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Seeding has finally ended and you can say we're just about to launch into spraying season. Peas have been sprayed along with many late April seeded wheat...
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Seeding has just about come to a close. Temperatures have remained cool which has slowed crop growth and limited the opportunities for herbicide application....
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We had another excellent week of weather allowing most producers to wrap up in the next day or two. I’d say we are 95% complete seeding and late-April ...
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Seeding has progressed rapidly since last week with many producers reaching 50 to 60% complete. Early seeded crops have emerged and will develop quickly with...
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Early seeded wheat and barley is peaking out of the ground and peas will be emerging this week. We had another 6/10ths to 1 inch of rain last week across my ...
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A great deal of seeding progress was made last week with some producers completing 25%-30% of their acres. The majority of peas are planted with a good start...
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It’s April 23rd and the countryside will be crawling with air drills soon. Ground temperatures have warmed up, hovering between 5 and 10C which is abov...
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Producers have just started to scratch the ground and begin seeding peas, some early wheat and malt barley. I had a chance to help a client fine tune their d...
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Well, the time has come. Some of my larger farm clients will kick off planting next week while they fine tune equipment for wheat, peas and malt barley. The ...
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It’s tool time! The liquid kit for the drill arrived last week, our 60-foot Spray Coupe arrived today, and the GreenSeeker should arrive by the end of ...
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Another busy week has passed! I reviewed VR recommendations, presented to Olds College staff and students, attended a BASF product meeting and squeezed in som...
Weekly Welcome
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I was invited to speak to a farmer group last week in Saskatchewan which I really enjoyed. We had great conversations about foliar urea, vacuum planters in canol...
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As spring approaches producers are fine tuning their seeding decisions. There is plenty of talk about reducing wheat acres which may swing over to canola or mayb...
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I always enjoy sitting down to talk shop with my clients. Lately we’ve reviewed crop plans, variety selection, seeding rates and fertility plans. It’...
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I presented to an excellent crowd at the premiere Precision Ag 2.0 conference in Calgary last week. I also had a great sit down with industry and government rese...
