Researcher Heather Sorestad with the East Central Research Foundation/Parkland College discusses a flax desiccation trial.
The 4Rs of nutrient stewardship (right fertilizer source at the right rate, at the right time, in the right place) provides a foundation for increased yield, increased profitability and improved sustainability.
Clinton Monchuk an egg and grain farmer from Saskatchewan answers why farmers use fungicide.
Did you know that soil is the most diverse habitat on earth? It is teeming with life. One small handful of healthy soil contains more living organisms than the entire population of humans on Earth!
This video gives a short explanation of why farmers test their soil and the important information they can gain from these soil samples.
Learn how and why two vegetable growers - Mark Quee of West Branch and Jake Kundert of Solon - use beetle banks and pollinator habitats to increase beneficial insect populations on the farm in this episode of Bringing Back the Edges: Creating Wildlife Habitat on Farms.
There's been a fair amount of interest in comparing the results of canola seeded with a drill versus a planter over the last decade, but as the percentage of acres sown with planters has increased, farmers and agronomists are also looking to compare different planter setups.
This Canola School episode takes us to a planter demonstration trial near St. Jean-Baptiste, Manitoba, where Brunel Sabourin of Antara Agronomy discusses variations in canola emergence in a series of plots looking at different planter setups and settings.
In this video Extension Specialist Adam Sisson helps us understand what crop scouting is. He gives us some in-field looks at diseases and discusses incidence and severity.
The Dot Power Platform is a mobile diesel-powered platform designed to work autonomously with a wide variety of implements commonly used in agriculture. Its U-shaped frame facilitates the direct loading of implements so that, once loaded, the implement “becomes one” with the mobile-powered platform.
FarmBeats, a new agriculture research project developed by Microsoft, uses solar-powered white space-based Internet connectivity to record soil temperature and moisture levels and track them with cloud-based computing models. FarmBeats enables data-driven farming in remote areas by using inexpensive monitoring equipment, including cameras, to help increase the food yield of farms.
Insect scouting information at your fingertips. This guide is full of great images and practical tips that will help you:
Identify and manage insect pests and identify and protect beneficial insects.
This unique insect guide links the pests that can damage your crops to the predators that help to control them. You’ll want to access this valuable tool while scouting your fields this season.
With the G.A.P. in Action initiative, GLOBALG.A.P. is inviting everyone to join us on our mission to spread good agricultural practices around the world. To do so, we have developed this video giving an introducing into the integrated pest management (IPM) concept. The video is based on the IPM poster out of our series of 15 G.A.P. in Action posters - a series of instructional posters breaking down complex food safety standards into basic implementation instructions.
GM stands for genetically modified. So, GM crops are plants grown for food whose genes have been altered using genetic engineering. In some cases, the genes of other organisms have been inserted into the genome of the crop plant to improve it in some way. As the human population increases, there is a higher demand for food, and it is often difficult to grow enough food to provide everyone with a balanced diet. Growing GM crops is a partial solution to this problem because GM crops tend to have higher yields than conventional crops.
This video explains GM crops and outlines the pros and cons of production.
When you think of fresh produce and fields of grain, the Arctic may not spring to mind. But just 800 miles from the North Pole, the Global Seed Vault holds emergency stockpiles of most of the world's crops. It provides scientists with the tools they need to breed plants able to cope with a changing world.
This video explores the Global Seed Vault and its uses, especially with the threat of climate change for crops.
This video goes over important details for being safe when working in or around grain bins.
This video focuses on the functions and features of a John Deere air seeder. It was used to show field crop equipment advances.
A corn planter has to consistently put millions of seeds at the right depth and spacing. How does it do it? Joe Ligo looks inside a 4-row Kinze planter to find out.
Meghan Vankosky, Entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, breaks down sweep net technique in this how-to video series.
More and more Indigenous communities are looking into agriculture as an economic opportunity and what it means for First Nation’s people and their future.
In this video, the leaders of Pelican Lake First Nation talk about the positive effects farming has had on their community including the creation of jobs and the long-lasting benefits for their younger generation.
Journey 2050 is an online farming simulation that teaches students about food sustainability across the globe. The program challenges students to consider how we will feed an ever-growing population that is projected to reach 10 billion by 2050. Using an inquiry-based approach, this gamified, virtual program encourages students to make decisions and adjust them as they see their impact on society, the environment, and the economy at a local and global scale. Singing up as an educator gives you access to the teacher guides and resources. You can choose how you would like to use this based on the number of hours you are willing to give.
Aboriginal farmers in northern Saskatchewan produce one of the world’s most nutritious types of rice. This video explores the traditional crop, wild rice, bringing socioeconomic progress to a small native community in Saskatchewan.