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Solar Radiation: Or Smoke and Mirrors?
June 13, 2023 Olivia Noorenberghe- Filed Under:
- Corn, Crop Management, Planting, Precision Agriculture, Silage, Soybeans
Sunlight is important for photosynthesis and carbohydrate production. The wildfires across Canada have caused a week of hazy overcast weather in the early V1-V6 stage.
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Silage Corn – Hybrid Selection Considerations
March 28, 2023 Breanne Rey- Filed Under:
- Corn, Crop Management, Planting, Precision Agriculture, Silage
Picking a corn hybrid to grow for silage can be a daunting task. There are several factors to be considered that differ from simply looking at yield and moisture, as we would tend to do with grain corn.
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A6566G8 is a new hybrid that is commercially available for 2023!
March 7, 2023 Olivia Noorenberghe- Filed Under:
- Corn, Crop Management, Planting
This hybrid has us really excited. Yield results from our plots this year have shown that it has an edge on A6455G8 (+13 bu) and A6585G8 yield wise (+7.4 bu) and it has proven to be a strong silage hybrid as well in our commercial plots this year!
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Tonnage, Energy, and Silage Success: Optimizing Your Corn Crop
March 3, 2023 Breanne Rey- Filed Under:
- Crop Management, Planting, Precision Agriculture, Silage
More and more western Canadian farmers are giving silage and grazing corn a try thanks to new shorter season hybrids that offer impressive yield – as much as 50% more silage yield than barley – as well as palatability and excellent digestibility.
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The Impact of Corn Seed Size and Potential
March 3, 2023 Olivia Noorenberghe- Filed Under:
- Corn, Crop Management, Planting, Silage
Seed corn kernels can come in a variety of sizes and shapes ranging from either large rounds (kernels from the base of the ear), flats (from the center of the ear), and small rounds (from the tip of the ear).
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2022 Agronomy Review
February 6, 2023 Sara Meidlinger- Filed Under:
- Corn, Crop Management, Planting, Precision Agriculture, Silage
As 2023 seems to be flying by, we wanted to use this newsletter as an opportunity to review five different corn agronomic issues we saw during the 2022 growing season in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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TALLAGE DU MAÏS : Qu’est-ce que la plante veut nous dire
December 7, 2022 Francis Allard, agr. M.SC.- Filed Under:
- Corn, Crop Management, Planting, Precision Agriculture, Silage
Le tallage est un phénomène commun chez les graminées. Plusieurs céréales comme le blé et l’orge par exemple en bénéficient et c’est particulièrement vrai dans les céréales d’automne où chaque talle supplémentaire produit un épi généralement récoltable.
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There will be a large difference between a “simple frost” that just damages or kills some of the leaves vs. a “killing frost” that completely stops thephotosynthesis of the plant. Learn more:
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Corn School: Stress testing hybrids to see where they fit
October 4, 2022 Matt Chapple- Filed Under:
- Corn, Crop Management, Planting, Precision Agriculture
PRIDE Seeds agronomist Matt Chapple shares how seed companies stress test hybrids to ensure only the best, most resilient hybrids make it to market. He also discusses how hybrid performance can vary in different environments and why it’s critical to properly position a hybrid on a farm to optimize yield.
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Soybean School: Long-season varieties create yield risk and rewards
September 29, 2022 Matt Chapple- Filed Under:
- Crop Management, Soybeans
On this episode of the RealAgriculture Soybean School, PRIDE Seed agronomist Matt Chapple looks at how two varieties with different maturity ratings perform in side-by-side plots under the same growing conditions in southwestern Ontario.