IssuesWinter 2021

Winter 2021

Hope for Wireworm Control

A new wireworm control product from BASF, Cimegra, is giving growers hope following years of products being phased out. Potato growers fearing a shrinking toolbox...

Reducing Tillage but Not Quality

A farmer in Manitoba, who experimented with direct seeding and minimal tillage in a potato field, harvested a crop statistically on-par with his conventionally...

Saving Time

A self-propelled potato harvester made by Grimme reduces the amount of people needed for harvest. At Steijn Potato Farms in York, P.E.I. they were having...

The World is My Potato

Exuberant agronomist shines on federal youth ag council and with master’s research. Many people are content to attend post-secondary school, find a job, settle in...

Probing the Potential of Cover Crops

A PhD student in Manitoba is surveying growers about a relatively new crop on the Canadian Prairies — cover crops. For Callum Morrison, his interest...

Unlocking Soil Secrets in Your Fields

SWAT MAPS are a digital map which charts soil, water and topography in fields in order to help growers better understand their fields. Experts Editor’s note:...

Hope for Wireworm Control

A new wireworm control product from BASF, Cimegra, is giving growers hope following years of products being phased out. Potato growers fearing a shrinking toolbox...

Reducing Tillage but Not Quality

A farmer in Manitoba, who experimented with direct seeding and minimal tillage in a potato field, harvested a crop statistically on-par with his conventionally...

Saving Time

A self-propelled potato harvester made by Grimme reduces the amount of people needed for harvest. At Steijn Potato Farms in York, P.E.I. they were having...

The World is My Potato

Exuberant agronomist shines on federal youth ag council and with master’s research. Many people are content to attend post-secondary school, find a job, settle in...

Probing the Potential of Cover Crops

A PhD student in Manitoba is surveying growers about a relatively new crop on the Canadian Prairies — cover crops. For Callum Morrison, his interest...

Unlocking Soil Secrets in Your Fields

SWAT MAPS are a digital map which charts soil, water and topography in fields in order to help growers better understand their fields. Experts Editor’s note:...