Yearly Archives: 2016

The message everyone is hearing across the Prairies is it’s unseasonably warm and there is little or no snow cover. It looks like an early spring could be just around the corner, and with early spring comes considerations with regard to seeding. Some crops can go in early into cooler soils – peas and wheat [...]

The use of certified seed is not a foreign one, but when it comes to cereals, it certainly seems like it might be in Western Canada.  While certified seed use is 100 percent in canola, the biggest crop in Western Canada next to wheat, certified seed use in wheat hovers around 20 percent. Certified seed [...]