Reading Time: 4 minutes Saskatchewan trials found seed-placed phosphorus in canola rarely reduced yield but often reduced plant stands, shifting risk to crop establishment.
Canola sees no yield drop in seed-placed phosphorus trial
Phosphorus fertilizer put down with seed limits plant stands, not yield, Saskatchewan research shows
Still hard to predict precise fertilizer payback
Despite decades of precision agriculture advances, international research finds no clear way to predict where and when adding nutrient through fertilizer will fail to boost growth
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite decades of precision agriculture advances, international research finds no clear way to predict where and when adding nutrient through fertilizer will fail to boost growth.
One change to improve Prairie canola yield
Crop rotation and nutrition topped the list for both Canadian farmers and agronomists
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Canola Council of Canada has surveyed growers on their production practices and found rotation and nutrient management key to increasing yields.
Saskatchewan company pitches decarbonized fertilizer
Genesis Fertilizers says post-production carbon capture will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground
Reading Time: 3 minutes Genesis Fertilizers says post-production carbon capture at their incoming fertilizer plant in Saskatchewan will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground.
Emissions reduction needs a lifeline
Canadian farmers can’t extract added production costs from global markets
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nobody likes to change, especially not when they’re comfortable and things are going well. But that attitude can lead to complacency and inertia as the world passes by. This is the delicate balance that farmers are being asked to strike, with little evidence that it’s going to pay them dividends of any kind. The issue […] Read more
Feds up the ante for canola growers adopting 4R
Cash available more than triples in second year of Canola 4R Advantage
Reading Time: 4 minutes The federal government has loosened the purse strings for canola producers hoping to set up select 4R nutrient management practices on their farms. Applicants to the Canola 4R Advantage program can now seek up to $20,000 in assistance for each of three (possibly four) eligible 4R best management practices, compared to $6,000 per BMP in […] Read more
Grants available for adopting 4R
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canola Council of Canada has launched a new program, called the Canola 4R Advantage, that will offer up to $12,000 per farm for implementing 4R stewardship practices. The funding (from Ottawa’s On-Farm Climate Action Fund) will reimburse growers for up to 85 per cent of their costs in four areas: soil testing, enhanced efficiency […] Read more
There’s a path to reduced fertilizer emissions but it has challenges
More uptake of 4R and better application technology are key but so is providing the right incentives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use are possible through 4R nutrient management, according to researchers from the University of Guelph. But while the 4R concept is good (right source, right time, right rate and right placement), truly significant reductions lean heavily on achieving each factor simultaneously, said Claudia Wagner-Riddle, […] Read more
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