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August for Debra Pretty-Straathof, means seeing cattle on pasture, third cut hay being baled, and the dark green corn producing long, slender cobs of grain. Unfortunately for her and her Eastern Ontario neighbours, the few millimetres of rain this summer has stunted...
Launched in December 2011 for the iPad, ScoutDoc by AgNition Inc. is a field scouting app targeted at professional agronomists and farmers. The app allows users to create or import field maps, and save information collected when scouting or inspecting fields. “As a...
On-farm food safety and traceability has been at the forefront of the livestock industry’s risk management radar since the Canadian BSE outbreak in 2003. Since then, industry and government have been working together to develop a national traceability system. “Enough...
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a process for evaluating the environmental impact, or ‘environmental footprint’, of a product from cradle to grave. In our rapidly changing world, LCA is a key concept for farmers to keep in mind. “Life cycle assessment is the new math...
Andrew DeRuyck always knew he wanted to be a farmer – which is why he started off in banking. “One of the main reasons I wanted to work in the financial industry was because I believed there was some sort of magic number in farming – that you had to have 300 sows or...
The dust bowl of the 1930s conjures up images of heartache, hardship and economic disaster. Could it happen again? Research conducted by Thomas Fox, Thomas Barchyn and Chris Hugenholtz at the University of Lethbridge shows that soil conservation efforts implemented...
