Reading Time: 5 minutes When it comes to on-farm testing, part of the equation is seeing how products function in the real world. So, while dry conditions are not ideal circumstances, the agronomist lead of Alberta Grains’ Plot2Farm program says testing enhanced efficiency fertilizers, PGRs and nitrogen rates has value. “I’d say overall (2023) was a relatively successful year,” […] Read more
Plot2Farm wraps up another (dry) year
Although short on big news, it offered insight on how crop products work in dry conditions, says agronomist
Search for the holy grail of N fertilizer continues
You can now buy nitrogen-fixing bacteria for your crops but when it comes to wheat, the jury is out
Reading Time: 5 minutes A real-world test of nitrogen-fixing bacteria conducted in Alberta was a bust when it came to boosting yields, but no one is throwing in the towel yet. “It’s too early to tell. You can’t base anything off one year worth of trial data,” said Erek Bishop, a participant in one of four trials of Utrisha […] Read more
Few yield boosts, but lots of food for thought in farmer-driven trials
With Plot2Farm, producers themselves answer key questions on emerging practices
Reading Time: 4 minutes Boosting nitrogen in barley, wide- versus narrow-row spacing, and three-way split nitrogen applications were in the spotlight in producer-driven on-farm trials in 2022. Although increased yield wasn’t in the cards in several cases, moments of clarity may have made up for it. Plot2Farm is a field-scale research program in which farmers themselves conduct the kind […] Read more
Plot2Farm heading into third season
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alberta Wheat and Alberta Barley are now taking Plot2Farm applications for next year. The initiative was launched in 2020 to better understand “how particular management practices impact crop quality and yield” on individual farms. The program seeks to replicate promising small-plot trial research results on farms, with producers being assisted by an agronomist. This allows […] Read more
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