On this weekend’s show, guest host Lyndsey Smith is joined by: Tara Mulhern Davidson of Lonesome Dove Ranch, on enduring drought and business risk management programs; Megz Reynolds with Do More Ag on harvest stress; and Breanne Tidemann with a discussion on herbicide resistant wild oats, what now? Plus hear what details we have on… Read More
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Thanks for tuning in to this Agronomic Monday edition with this week’s host Lyndsey Smith! On today’s show, hear from: Breanne Tidemann of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on what to do about herbicide resistant wild oats; Kelvin Heppner’s recent interview with Kim Brown-Livingston of Manitoba Ag on herbicide resistant Canada fleabane; and, Peter Johnson on… Read More
After a drought, lingering effects of herbicides can really pose a threat for the next cropping year. In this Canola School episode, Breanne Tidemann, research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe, Alta., explains why there’s a risk for herbicide carryover from residual products for the upcoming crop year. Tidemann says that it’s important to… Read More
For many, December is a time to reflect, to really sit back and look at what the previous months looked like. What were the highs? What were the lows? Despite 2020 being the year it was — and one I certainly won’t forget in my lifetime — it was also a whole lot of fun… Read More
Welcome to an agronomic Monday AND the start of the Christmas week (only 4 more sleeps!). On today’s show you’ll hear: Raymond Gadoua, of WCCRRC and the Canola Council of Canada, on how new canola varieties are selected; Peter Sikkema, professor of field crop weed management at the University of Guelph. He’s talking about herbicide… Read More
More diverse crop rotations are better, agronomically speaking, but economically speaking, the story is not always so clear. Cash flow in the immediate term sometimes takes centre stage when growing a high-profit crop such as canola. But what if growing a more diverse rotation was just as profitable as growing canola in a one-in-two, or… Read More
Herbicide resistant weeds lurk on millions of acres of Canadian farm land. There’s no one way to manage resistant weeds or to delay resistance, but there are plenty of little hammers to use. That’s the subject of this episode of The Agronomists! Join host Shaun Haney in discussion with Breanne Tidemann, research scientist at AAFC… Read More
Harvest weed seed control is one option when it comes to managing some of our resistant weeds across the prairies. However, when it comes to wild oats, they shed their weed seeds before harvest time comes around. Breanne Tidemann, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), has published a paper on some of the… Read More
If you’re listening in from the United States, we want to wish you a good Memorial Day Monday! For the rest of you…it’s still a great Monday, as it’s time to talk all things agronomy! On today’s episode of RealAg Radio, you’ll hear: Breanne Tidemann, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Lacombe,… Read More
Weed control is often focused first on out-competing the pest. Some escape, of course, so “control” shifts to decreasing the weed seed bank. There are limited ways to eliminate those weeds with mature seeds at harvest, but recent work in Australia and here in Canada is focused on destroying weeds at the combine. According to… Read More
The Harrington Seed Destructor made its foray into Canadian agriculture in 2014, offering with it an opportunity to increase integrated pest management strategies on-farm, by mechanically reducing weed seed banks at harvest. It is now into its third year of a research study looking at its impact on weed populations over time. In this Wheat… Read More
With increasing cases of herbicide resistance, machines designed to destroy weed seeds at harvest could be a valuable tool. But like any technology that is not yet widely adopted, there are also some lessons to be learned and challenges to overcome, as researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada confirmed last year. 2017 marked the first… Read More
Harvest weed seed control has been widely adopted in Australia as a tool in fighting herbicide resistance. When it comes to North America, farmers in southern States, such as Arkansas, have started implementing these concepts, but the idea of destroying weed seed viability has yet to take off here in Canada. In this Wheat School episode,… Read More
Wild oat control is, like it or not, an increasingly costly issue in Western Canada. Not only is herbicide expensive (costing growers over $500 million annually), we are also seeing an increase in resistant wild oat populations. There are several fields with confirmed resistance to both Group 1 and Group 2 products. Farmers do and… Read More