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Name: Ladies & Gentlemen, Welcome to the 4R Nutrient Casino
Uploaded: 2016-08-29
Description: Farmers are dealt a hand of cards each year. There are cards of fortune and cards of misfortune. Maybe it’s a wet spring or corn prices below $4/bu or skyrocketing fertilizer costs. Maybe you get all three in the same hand. A farmer can’t always choose what they’re dealt, but they can choose how to respond….

Mar 21, 2016 by Kelvin Heppner

Farmers are dealt a hand of cards each year. There are cards of fortune and cards of misfortune. Maybe it’s a wet spring or corn prices below $4/bu or skyrocketing fertilizer costs. Maybe you get all three in the same hand. A farmer can’t always choose what they’re dealt, but they can choose how to respond….

Categories: Agronomy / Crop Production / CropConnect / Eastern Canada / Fertility / Podcasts / Tradeshows & Events / United States / Video / Western Canada

Tags: Don Flaten / Food and Rural Development / John Heard / Manitoba Agriculture / Marla Riekman / University of Manitoba

Kelvin Heppner

Kelvin Heppner, field editor for RealAgriculture, has been reporting on Canadian agriculture since 2008(ish). When he's not working on a story, he's usually in a chicken barn or a field, as he also farms with his family near Altona, Manitoba.