Real Agriculture

JANUARY 22, 2024

Helping farmers prep soil and seed crops in small spring planting windows is the driving force behind a new harrow and seeder combination for Kuhn. Read More Helping farmers prep soil and seed crops in small spring planting windows is the driving force behind a new harrow and seeder combination for Kuhn. Read More

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Walter Smith would still fall into the category of “young” farmer, but after ten years of running a seed. Read More

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Farmers Weekly Diversifying a traditional arable rotation with a wildflower seed business has helped secure a viable future for one tenant farming family, who faced losing their farm to building developments.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 7, 2023

From the description of the just-released German-Norwegian TV series “Die Saat – Tödliche Macht” (English title: The Seed) on ARD (as translated by Google). The starting and ending point is the “Svalbard Global Seed Vault”, where valuable seeds from all over the world are stored as genetic backup in the event of a disaster.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

CANTERRA SEEDS’s latest LibertyLink® hybrid, CS4100 LL, is set to launch in 2025. This next-gen hybrid boasts impressive features to help farmers tackle common challenges in the field, says Lorri Keyowski, Director of Sales for CANTERRA SEEDS. CS4100 LL offers enhanced protection against pod shatter, with a 7.3

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To add insult to injury, this meant that travelling was not possible, not even for […] The post Farmer Focus: Dampened seed-beds but not spirits appeared first on Farmers Weekly More concerning though, was that the fields we recently drilled did not take the rain well and created a waterlogged mess.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

CANTERRA SEEDS’s latest LibertyLink® hybrid, CS4100 LL, is set to launch in 2025. This next-gen hybrid boasts impressive features to help farmers tackle common challenges in the field, says Lorri Keyowski, Director of Sales for CANTERRA SEEDS. CS4100 LL offers enhanced protection against pod shatter, with a 7.3 Read More

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 20, 2023

Farmers Weekly A mini seed drill for use behind a quad bike, farm buggy or compact tractor has been introduced by Corvus UTV distributor Boss ORV.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 20, 2024

Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF) launches SEED GIST , a quarterly repository of seed literature. Hong Kong gets some rice seeds back from the IRRI genebank. No doubt Iraq will get some seeds back from the ICARDA genebank soon. WorldVeg knows all about seed kits, and safety duplication.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly Cereals and oilseeds, as well as precision-planted crops such as maize, can be established using a choice of seeding units for Kuhn’s latest folding power harrow, the 4.5m See also: Yorkshire farmer […] The post More seeding options on offer for latest Kuhn HR power harrow appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Jim Wilson has been named as chair of Canterra Seeds. Wilson steps in after Lloyd Affleck retired from his position as chair. Affleck will remain as a board member. Wilson has been a board member since 2010, and has served as vice chair for the last 14 years. Jim and his wife operate a grain. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

UAVs, or drones, have evolved past aerial imagery and are quickly becoming a useful tool in the early fly-on of seed into standing crops. Read More UAVs, or drones, have evolved past aerial imagery and are quickly becoming a useful tool in the early fly-on of seed into standing crops.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Corteva Agriscience has launched Straxan fungicide treatment for cereals that provides protection against both seed- and soil-borne diseases. Read More Corteva Agriscience has launched Straxan fungicide treatment for cereals that provides protection against both seed- and soil-borne diseases.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We’ve gone with a […] The post Farmer Focus: Farm-saved seed wheat blend tailored to farm conditions appeared first on Farmers Weekly The wheat was sown direct into the linseed stubble with the Moore Unidrill and the barley disced before drilling into the wheat stubble with the same machine.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 3, 2024

We have established a multilateral system for access and benefit-sharing, which is like the global pool of genetic material and seeds that facilitates the breeding of new varieties of crops, and it has enabled over 6.9 million transfers of plant genetic material, supporting global agricultural research.

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

James Hammerton is looking for innovative ways to increase crop production efficiency. Hammerton, who farms with his family at Sweaburg, Ont., 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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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 27, 2024

Little seed has its say The motto of the European Union on agricultural diversity, especially with regard to seeds, has long been Everything Not Permitted Is Forbidden. However all seeds must enter the system—a kind of population registry for plants. It could provide an opportunity for more varieties to become legal.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 30, 2023

Farmers Weekly Borage and herbage seed break crops have helped one heavy land Essex arable farm get on top of blackgrass, with double spring-sown breaks and low soil disturbance seen as the key in its grassweed battle.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Understanding the need for better white mold management options, Colin Dutcheshen, President of Heads Up® Plant Protectants Inc., approached Matt Oehmichen, Owner of Short Lane Ag Supply LLC., with a proposal: find a progressive local farmer who has a field with a notorious history of white mold and is rotating back to soybeans in spring.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Optimizing the accession-level quantity of seeds to put into storage to minimize seed (gene)bank regeneration or re-collection. = [n vt × 3]+[n d × (y × x)]+ q min if you must know. A pragmatic protocol for seed viability monitoring in ex situ plant genebanks. Formulas are good, but you need some flexibility too. No problem.

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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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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Farmers Weekly Defra has been accused of being “asleep at the wheel” on the issue of seed potato exports to the EU.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions? When it comes to choosing soybean varieties how should growers factor seed weight and pod count into their variety selection decisions?

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 15, 2024

Is your seed library on here ? If not, you can add it …

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 13, 2024

New on the docket for 2025, CANTERRA SEEDS is excited to share details of the latest canola hybrid, CS3300 TF. RealAgriculture’s Shaun Haney spoke with Courtney Welch, Canola Product Manager at CANTERRA SEEDS, to learn more about CS3300 TF and how this hybrid offers farmers key advantages in terms of yield and versatility, particularly in.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 13, 2024

There’s lots of research that points to a two-inch depth, but there’s growing evidence that planting corn up to three inches deep is a better choice if the seed can access optimum moisture levels at that depth. On this episode of The Sharp Edge, Maizex Seeds agronomist Henry. Read More

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Brent Derkatch has been named as the new president and CEO of Canterra Seeds. Derkatch has been with CANTERRA SEEDS since 2001, and has served as the director, Pedigreed Seed Business Unit for the past five years. Read More Brent Derkatch has been named as the new president and CEO of Canterra Seeds. Derkatch will.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

See also: Why wheat drill dates should be delayed this autumn Winter wheat Just three winter wheat varieties make up a sizeable proportion of this year’s […] The post Seed sales show heavy reliance on limited number of varieties appeared first on Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly finds out what’s filling the drills.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 4, 2024

How often do we hear the old adage “farming is a lifestyle”? The simple fact is that while farming allows so many of us to live a beautiful way of life, connected to the land in a way that the majority of people could never imagine, it’s not an easy way of life. Unlike the.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 26, 2024

To borrow a phrase, the first step is always the hardest. Taking the first step in planting cover crops or multi-species forage mixes are no exception and requires some careful analysis before deciding on what’s right. Soil type, soil biology, and rainfall for each farm, as well as goals and expectations of cover crops can.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Learn about the latest projects, products and services related to seed coming from Beck’s, Channel and BASF.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farmers and growers will continue to have access to important seed treatments and pesticides from Europe when the current post-Brexit arrangements expire at the end of the year. It had been feared that access to such products would be lost after 2023.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 21, 2024

The community seed banks of Nepal have a new website. A new project is testing RNA integrity number (RIN) as a metric of seed aging for a bunch of rare wild plants. One day maybe community seed banks will be using it. What if you can’t work out what the crops are, though? As in Mesopotamian recipe books , for example.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Do you want to describe and analyze seed systems? Hope they include seed systems. Let the Norwegian University of Life Sciences show you how. Do you think there should be a, well, systemic approach to the food system? So does the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. And genebanks.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 24, 2024

Canadian farmers are beginning to see the results of Lemken’s 2023 purchase of South African seed drill maker Equalizer as the company rolls out new seeding tools for the Canadian market. At Ag In Motion at Saskatoon, Sask., farmers had a chance to get a good look at the Lemken Equalizer air tine drill. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 14, 2024

Canadian farmers who run Vaderstad planters will see something familiar when they look closely at the company’s new Proceed V seed drill. The tillage and seeding company has been working on the Proceed V for several years and when it starts production in 2025 it will feature the Gilstring seed meter — it’s currently used.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 4, 2024

Those are questions PRIDE Seeds agronomist Stephanie Myslik tackles on this episode of RealAgriculture Corn School. Those are questions PRIDE Seeds agronomist Stephanie Myslik tackles on this episode of RealAgriculture Corn School. How do corn hybrids respond to foliar feeding? Read More How do corn hybrids respond to foliar feeding?

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