Grainews' greatest hits: 2024 in review - Grainews
Dec 25, 2024 · The horsepower race is back on again, Jan. 16, 2024, page 1. For several growing seasons, our machinery editor Scott Garvey was observing a sort of holding pattern in the horses available from the major tractor manufacturers, but as 2024 approached, the machinery makers stopped holding their horses, cranking up the muscle on their flagship models, including some touching and even crossing the ...
Good weather holds through harvest - Grainews
Jan 8, 2025 · The sun was setting as we finished the last of the 2024 harvest. photo: Courtesy Eppich family On the Saturday of the long weekend we had a Thanksgiving supper with Father Rinesh from Our Lady of the Assumption, Anna’s godparents Phil and Tish Ulrich, Gregory’s sister Theresa, and John and Barb.
New soybean varieties for 2025 - Grainews
Sep 16, 2024 · Note: the following list includes only brand-new releases for 2025. BrettYoung. BY NEBO XT is an ultra-early variety with a relative maturity of 000.5 RM or 2150 CHU.This Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybean has an attractive phenotype …
New pulses pending for 2025 - Grainews
Dec 4, 2024 · Canterra’s CS Prostar, shown here at the company’s site at Ag in Motion on July 17, is also marketed as an early-maturity variety, making it suitable for areas with a short growing season. photo: Dave Bedard CDC 6928 is a small red lentil variety with good yield potential, yielding nine per cent more than CDC Maxim. It has a seed size similar to CDC Simmie and is slightly taller than the ...
New tools could speed up development of cereal varieties
Jan 4, 2025 · Francois Eudes says climate change and extreme weather conditions are prompting plant breeders to look at some things in a new light including what works in other countries. photo: University of Saskatchewan Curtis Pozniak, a professor and director of the CDC at the U of S, says it takes, on average, eight to 10 years to develop a new variety, which means breeders need to “have a bit of a ...
Practical Production Tips & Agricultural News - Grainews
Grainews, written for farmers, and often by farmers, provides practical production tips that farmers use to get on with the day-to-day business of farming.
Increasing AI use has many advantages - Grainews
5 days ago · This has been happening for a lot longer in the purebred cattle industry and a lot of the reasons are the same. If one is considering AI in cattle or increasing what you do, this article will review the pros, then outline some other considerations.
John Deere responds to tariff threat - Grainews
Oct 25, 2024 · Earlier in the year, John Deere had announced it was moving some production out of the U.S. to one of its plants in Mexico. It’s not the only brand to reveal it has moved, or will move, some production there in recent years. In fact, most brands either assemble or source components from plants all across the world, including low-cost production points such as in India.
Plasma shows promise against fusarium-formed toxins
May 27, 2024 · “We substituted the normal water with plasma-treated water and we used that water to treat barley grains. We noticed that treating barley grains with plasma water boosted the germination and resulted in the degradation of deoxynivalenol,” Feizollahi said.
Harvest Archives - Grainews
Row-crop harvest is in full swing across North Dakota, with many crops near completion. Weather conditions have been extremely warm and dry, allowing producers to harvest crops without the pressure to get the grains harvested before winter arrives.