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Corn School: Harvest timing critical for seed corn quality

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. It’s all about protecting seed quality, says PRIDE Seeds field production manager Mike Bechard. Read More Seed corn harvest in southern Ontario typically gets underway in early September. Why so early? Why so early?

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Harvest 2023: New winter barley impresses in Yorkshire

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 21, 2023

Farmers Weekly Yorkshire Wolds grower Mark Ullyott is impressed with the new winter barley variety Caravelle, saying it is the best seed crop of barley he has grown for more than 10 years and he will be growing it again this coming season. The two-row feed variety yielded 8.5-9.5t/ha

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Guide to Potato Cultivation: From Planting to Harvest

Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Planting and Harvesting Potatoes are typically planted in spring once soil temperatures reach 10°C (50°F), a benchmark for promoting uniform sprouting and robust early growth. Seed tubers should be planted 10–15 cm deep, with in-row spacing of 20–30 cm and row spacing of 75–90 cm. The effects of soil type on harvest include: 1.

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Harvesting Solutions: How Food Systems Can Unlock Progress on Climate and Biodiversity

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This was the topic of a recent event, “Harvesting Solutions: Aligning NBSAPs and NDCs for Climate and Biodiversity Benefits,” held on the sidelines of COP16 in Cali. The post Harvesting Solutions: How Food Systems Can Unlock Progress on Climate and Biodiversity appeared first on Food Tank.

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Farmer Focus: Confusing harvest and most germinated blackgrass for years

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Granted the first inch was welcome as seed-beds were beginning to dry out, but now we’ve had enough. We […] The post Farmer Focus: Confusing harvest and most germinated blackgrass for years appeared first on Farmers Weekly Blackgrass seems to be germinating easily with low dormancy, which is a good thing.

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The Sharp Edge: Drone seeding cover crops into soybeans

Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

first appeared on The Sharp Edge in 2020 to share how he uses a stripper header to harvest and prepare wheat fields for double crop soybeans. first appeared on The Sharp Edge in 2020 to share how he uses a stripper header to harvest and prepare wheat fields for double crop soybeans. In 2023, he returns to the program with.

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Corn School: Building a gibberella defence

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A wet growing season plus high humidity and moisture at tasseling has many Ontario corn producers asking about the potential for ear mould and gibberella when combines start to roll at harvest. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Corn School, host Bernard Tobin is joined by PRIDE Seeds product manager Matt Chapple for a look.

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Wheat Pete’s Word, Sept 27: Seeding down to moisture, early canola, silage yields, and frozen corn

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

No, not actual hay, as we are in the critical harvest period, but if the soil is. No, not actual hay, as we are in the critical harvest period, but if the soil is.

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Video: Leicester farm trials weed seed unit on Fendt combine

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Europe’s first Redekop seed control unit (SCU) fitted to a Fendt Ideal 10T combine, aimed at controlling weed seeds, is being put to the test this harvest in Leicestershire at the Belvoir Farming Company.

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Golden Harvest Hybrids Built for the North

Agwired

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Golden Harvest and GHX are offering new corn hybrids specifically gred for those northern farmers who take pride in their ability to produce corn in a challenging environment every year. It precisely zeroes in on its prey at the right moment, with the right seeding rate. FPS24 - Interview with Rex Gray, Golden Harvest 3:03

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RealAg Radio: Clubroot, seeding rates and moisture, and night time temperatures, Sept 11, 2023

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Host Shaun Haney is joined by Peter Johnson to discuss a number of agronomic topics, including: Bent wheat in Alberta; Ontario harvest yields; and, Night time temperatures and development. Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio! Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio!

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Upgrades to the farm yard and bin set up can save labour

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The phrase work smarter, not harder is perhaps best applied when you’ve got no other choice — a one-person or two-person farm has no choice but to get creative when it comes to handling grain, the logistics of seeding and harvest, and more. But it’s not just farms with only a few people that benefit.

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Edible Bean School: Genetics and markets drive kidney bean opportunity

Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Better seed genetics and strong market prices are putting kidney beans on the radar for an increasing number of edible bean growers in Ontario.

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RealAg Radio: Hint of dent on corn, a new header, and broadcasting wheat seed, September 6, 2023

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On today’s show, host Shaun Haney is joined by Peter Johnson of RealAgriculture to discuss a hint of dent, early harvest, broadcasting wheat into soybeans and much more! On today’s show, host Shaun Haney is joined by Peter Johnson of RealAgriculture to discuss a hint of dent, early harvest, broadcasting wheat into soybeans and much more!

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Farmers needed to test cover crop harvest seeding tech

Western FarmPress

APRIL 5, 2024

Montag and Red Barn Solutions are offering a free trial of the Harvest Seeder this fall for Missouri soybean growers.

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Seed sales show heavy reliance on limited number of varieties

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Farmers Weekly After a testing season and difficult harvest, growers are sticking to a narrow range of varieties for the new cropping year. Farmers Weekly finds out what’s filling the drills.

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Corn School: Tackling field variability at harvest

Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As the 2024 Ontario corn crop races to the finish line with help from a late summer stretch of hot weather, growers are now seeing the challenges created by spring planting conditions and pest and disease pressures.

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Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. We plant everything deepfor instance, the corn goes 18 inches deep, depending on where the seeds will find moisture.”

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Nice Roots Farm-to-School Module 2: Growing from Seed to Harvest

Share Food Program

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’re closing out Farm-to-School Month by sharing the next installment of Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum: Growing from Seed to Harvest. The module wraps up with a hands-on activity like seed starting or food tasting that supports students in deepening their relationship to their food, nutrition and the land.

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Crop Watch: Wet autumn sees rotting seed and missed sprays

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Potato harvesting has halted, and some wheat is yet to receive herbicides. See also: Natural bioherbicides show promise in […] The post Crop Watch: Wet autumn sees rotting seed and missed sprays appeared first on Farmers Weekly Many of the planned autumn operations have not happened, especially in Scotland.

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Nutrien Ag Solutions unveils a new shatter resistant canola variety for 2025

Real Agriculture

JULY 22, 2024

Canola growers on the Prairies are always looking to save time and money especially as combines roll at harvest. At Ag in Motion at Saskatoon last week, Nutrien Ag Solutions announced their latest variety, Read More Canola growers on the Prairies are always looking to save time and money especially as combines roll at harvest.

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Winter Farming in Florida: Profit Ripe for the Picking

ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

After Floridas farmers harvest a wide array of summer crops, the fields do not lie dormant for long. These crops have many benefits for small-scale growers in Florida due to high demand in winter months, extended harvest, local market opportunities, and versatility of the use for these commodities.

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What does future of cover crop seeding look like?

Western FarmPress

APRIL 3, 2024

Missouri Soybeans drills down on the efficiency of drones, harvest seeders and robots for cover crop seeding.

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Our Best Climate Reporting of 2024

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Farmers are having to adjust what they grow and how they grow it, and people all along the food chainfrom the workers who harvest the crops to the consumers who eat themfeel the effects. It confirms what anyone whos planted seeds recently already knows. Micro Solar Leases: A New Income Stream for Black Farmers in the South?

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Wheat Pete’s Word, Apr 10: Overwintering wins, early harvest planning, PGR timing, and rust warnings

Real Agriculture

APRIL 10, 2024

Once the snow is gone, it’s time to assess how the fall-seeded crops have fared. Read More Once the snow is gone, it’s time to assess how the fall-seeded crops have fared. For much of Ontario, they not only did well, they’re already growing like weeds! That’s where we start with.

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From Seed to Harvest: The Role of AI and Telecommunications in Asia Pacific’s Agricultural Boom

Global Agtech Initiative

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Asia Pacific region, home to over 60% of the world’s population, is witnessing an agricultural boom, driven […] The post From Seed to Harvest: The Role of AI and Telecommunications in Asia Pacific’s Agricultural Boom appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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USDA’s latest chart on GMOs

Food Politics

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s titled, “ More than half of harvested U.S. cropland uses seed varieties with at least one genetically modified trait.” The USDA has published charts of GMO plantings for a long time, but this is the first one I’ve seen that incorporates sugar beets and alfalfa. Take a look. Why is this of interest?

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Pulse School: Protect germination potential with gentle seed handling

Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Harvested seed quality is heavily influenced by weather conditions throughout the growing season. Summers with drought conditions, as well as heat blast, can lead to an increased occurrence of mechanical damage in pulse seed lots.

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GHX sells seed by the acre, not the bag

Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This Syngenta seed company sells Golden Harvest hybrids using a different marketing strategy than the norm. Read on to learn more.

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Weekend reading: the cost of growing Romaine lettuce in California

Food Politics

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Every now and then I run across a report about something I know absolutely nothing about but wish I did, and this is one of them—an analysis from the University of California on Sample Costs to Produce and Harvest Romaine Hearts Lettuce. All I pay for is seeds. I would not have guessed. I’ve never gotten sick from eating it.

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Brainfood: Marroon rice, Dutch aroids, Sicilian saffron, Inca agriculture, Native American agriculture, Mexican peppers, Afro-Mexican agriculture, Sahelian landraces, Small-scale fisheries, Coconut remote sensing

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Afro-Indigenous harvests: Cultivating participatory agroecologies in Guerrero, Mexico. Interdisciplinary insights into the cultural and chronological context of chili pepper ( Capsicum annuum var. domestication in Mexico. About the only thing that’s missing here is traditional knowledge.

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Stop weeds while still seeds

Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Soybean Source: Harvest weed seed control technology stops weeds before they start by targeting weed seeds.

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The Sharp Edge: Planting big acres and mitigating compaction with Cliff Horst

Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2023

Cliff Horst and his brother, Dale, make it happen with a 24-row Harvest International planter and a Fendt 1038 tractor. Cliff Horst and his brother, Dale, make it happen with a 24-row Harvest International planter and a Fendt 1038 tractor. The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont., The brothers farm in Perth County, Ont., Read More

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Returning the ‘Three Sisters’ – Corn, Beans and Squash – to Native American Farms Nourishes People, Land and Cultures

Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. Abundant Harvests Historically, Native people throughout the Americas bred indigenous plant varieties specific to the growing conditions of their homelands.

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Seed Impact Mill Technology Hammers Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 5, 2024

Harvest weed seed control systems have a hefty price tag, but some farmers and researchers say they are a good investment and provide a ROI, especially where resistant weeds are taking over and control options are few.

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On Cape Cod, the Wampanoag Assert Their Legal Right to Harvest the Waters

Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. Wampanoag fishers, like Pocknett, are forced to shrug it off. Not just food.”

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Farmer Focus: Looking for answer to cost-effective farm kit

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Farmers Weekly We have finished harvest and are now drilling grass seed and cover crops into what is an unsurprisingly moist seed-bed.

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Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. Kotutwa Johnson with a harvested ear of Hopi white corn. His harvest looks unique, too. Kotutwa Johnsons stone farm house.

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Agritechnica 2023: Saphir develops hybrid mulcher/harrow Grindstar

Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

It is designed to work just 20mm deep to encourage volunteers and weed seeds to germinate without losing too much moisture from post-harvest stubbles. Farmers Weekly Part mulcher, part harrow is how German firm Saphir describes its novel Grindstar.

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17 Medicinal Health Benefits Of Lotus Seed (Nelumbo nucifera)

Agric4profits

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Lotus seeds, harvested from the sacred lotus plant (Nelumbo nucifera), are revered for their nutritional value and cultural significance across Asia. Encased wi

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Cereal growers urged to cut BYDV threat by controlling ‘green bridge’

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 23, 2023

The risk of BYDV is considered to be high this coming season as low specific weights this harvest will mean more seed going over […] The post Cereal growers urged to cut BYDV threat by controlling ‘green bridge’ appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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The five Ws of combine prep

Real Agriculture

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s never too early to start thinking about harvest prep, especially as fall-seeded crops race towards the finish line in mid-summer. Read More It’s never too early to start thinking about harvest prep, especially as fall-seeded crops race towards the finish line in mid-summer. Franceschetti says.

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Two Likely Dicamba-Resistant Waterhemp Populations Found In Iowa

AgWeb Farm Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Extension stresses the importance of not allowing any seed-bearing waterhemp to remain in the field at harvest. Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska have previously confirmed populations of dicamba-resistant waterhemp.

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Farmer Led Trials Program Spotlight: Trouvaille Farm

Organic Farming Research

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As a seed grower, Lindsay is participating in OFRF's Farmer Led Trials (FLT) Program to answer the question "Will using shade cloth improve fruit set in pepper plants grown for seed?" And if so, will that lead to early mature harvest and overall higher yields?

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Corn School: Harvest timing critical for seed corn quality

Harvest 2023: New winter barley impresses in Yorkshire

Trending Sources

Guide to Potato Cultivation: From Planting to Harvest

Harvesting Solutions: How Food Systems Can Unlock Progress on Climate and Biodiversity

Farmer Focus: Confusing harvest and most germinated blackgrass for years

The Sharp Edge: Drone seeding cover crops into soybeans

Corn School: Building a gibberella defence

Wheat Pete’s Word, Sept 27: Seeding down to moisture, early canola, silage yields, and frozen corn

Video: Leicester farm trials weed seed unit on Fendt combine

Golden Harvest Hybrids Built for the North

RealAg Radio: Clubroot, seeding rates and moisture, and night time temperatures, Sept 11, 2023

Upgrades to the farm yard and bin set up can save labour

Edible Bean School: Genetics and markets drive kidney bean opportunity

RealAg Radio: Hint of dent on corn, a new header, and broadcasting wheat seed, September 6, 2023

Farmers needed to test cover crop harvest seeding tech

Seed sales show heavy reliance on limited number of varieties

Corn School: Tackling field variability at harvest

Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Nice Roots Farm-to-School Module 2: Growing from Seed to Harvest

Crop Watch: Wet autumn sees rotting seed and missed sprays

Nutrien Ag Solutions unveils a new shatter resistant canola variety for 2025

Winter Farming in Florida: Profit Ripe for the Picking

What does future of cover crop seeding look like?

Our Best Climate Reporting of 2024

Wheat Pete’s Word, Apr 10: Overwintering wins, early harvest planning, PGR timing, and rust warnings

From Seed to Harvest: The Role of AI and Telecommunications in Asia Pacific’s Agricultural Boom

USDA’s latest chart on GMOs

Pulse School: Protect germination potential with gentle seed handling

GHX sells seed by the acre, not the bag

Weekend reading: the cost of growing Romaine lettuce in California

Brainfood: Marroon rice, Dutch aroids, Sicilian saffron, Inca agriculture, Native American agriculture, Mexican peppers, Afro-Mexican agriculture, Sahelian landraces, Small-scale fisheries, Coconut remote sensing

Stop weeds while still seeds

The Sharp Edge: Planting big acres and mitigating compaction with Cliff Horst

Returning the ‘Three Sisters’ – Corn, Beans and Squash – to Native American Farms Nourishes People, Land and Cultures

Seed Impact Mill Technology Hammers Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

On Cape Cod, the Wampanoag Assert Their Legal Right to Harvest the Waters

Farmer Focus: Looking for answer to cost-effective farm kit

Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

Agritechnica 2023: Saphir develops hybrid mulcher/harrow Grindstar

17 Medicinal Health Benefits Of Lotus Seed (Nelumbo nucifera)

Cereal growers urged to cut BYDV threat by controlling ‘green bridge’

The five Ws of combine prep

Two Likely Dicamba-Resistant Waterhemp Populations Found In Iowa

Farmer Led Trials Program Spotlight: Trouvaille Farm

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