Agriculture

Switching tracks

A new strategic plan says the old scientific priorities are no longer sufficient.

Jan 20, 2023 10:14 AM Read more >

Improving the internal combustion engine

Internal combustion engineers, chemists and scientists are planning to squeeze another century out of the machines.

Jan 15, 2023 6:46 AM Read more >

Growers running out of kochia options

Preliminary results from Saskatchewan indicate the weed may now have developed resistance to Group 14 herbicides.

Jan 14, 2023 9:35 AM Read more >

Biochar helps cut manure emissions

Substance could also potentially reduce odours from manure.

Jan 14, 2023 8:29 AM Read more >

Straight cutting linked to canola disease spread

Verticillium longisporum infects canola and produces tiny, pepper-like sclerotia in or on the stem of the plant.

Jan 14, 2023 7:20 AM Read more >

Ag Canada research shifts away from production

Strategy shifts toward the sustainable agriculture.

Jan 14, 2023 6:13 AM Read more >

Clubroot has been confirmed in 82 commercial fields

Clubroot pathogen detected in four new commercial crops.

Jan 9, 2023 12:16 PM Read more >

Opinion: Sustainable agriculture strategy needs farm input

Prairie farmers are credited with switching to conservation seeding techniques and reducing summerfallow.

Jan 9, 2023 10:21 AM Read more >

Enhanced fertilizer can cut emissions

Enhanced efficiency products work, but few farmers are using them because they can’t find a way to make them pay.

Jan 8, 2023 3:45 PM Read more >

Growers warned of wheat price dip

Fall new crop hard red spring wheat futures at the close of 2022 were nearly identical to what they were a year ago.

Jan 8, 2023 8:39 AM Read more >