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CropsThe co-op's Barry Cavanaugh advised well-drained loam fields, planting from 20 May to 10 June, early weed control and gentle harvesting at about 18% moisture, starting with 35 to 45 acres.
AgrotechThe National Animal Nutrition Program's Feed Value Loss Risk Assessment Tool uses a random forest model to rate how harvesting, storage, mixing and feeding practices threaten feed quantity and quality, starting with silage.
CropsGreg Stewart said dry spells can cause potassium deficiency even in well-testing soils, and questioned guidelines that recommend replacing crop removal only once soil-test potassium falls to about 75 ppm.
CropsAcross 117 sites from 2019 to 2022, corn yield response plateaued near 18 ppm soil phosphorus, close to the state's 16 ppm critical level; every site under 4 ppm responded, only a third above 30 ppm did.
AgribusinessCourt filings by AgWest, an eight-location AGCO, Fendt, Massey Ferguson and CLAAS dealer in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, point to falling machinery sales, weaker used-equipment values and higher borrowing costs across Western Canada.
LivestockThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency will hold the interim maximum of 3,000 mg/kg in starter swine feeds instead of cutting it to 300 mg/kg, while it weighs information submitted by the pork sector.
LivestockShipments passed 130,000 tonnes through August and their value rose 15 percent to $377 million, the US Meat Export Federation says, helped by campaigns that sell pork as a main dish rather than sausage meat.
CropsPioneer specialists say 2026 brought local outbreaks rather than last year's widespread pressure: leaf diseases in the rainy eastern Corn Belt, crown rot in the drought-hit west and late southern leaf blight in the South.
AgrotechUniversity of Minnesota researchers working with PepsiCo built CHIP-NCM, which predicts masa dough moisture from scans of raw grain so processors can adjust before production.
Ottawa is giving Agricultrices du Québec a further $628,501 under the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy for mentoring, training, financing advice and networks for women in agriculture and forestry.
AgrotechJohn Deere is expanding its Operations Center so farmers can document no-till, cover crops and nutrient management for the Biofuel Feedstock Report that ethanol and biodiesel makers need to claim extra 45Z tax credits.
AgribusinessAlberta Grains will stop administering the federal Advance Payments Program through FarmCash by 2027, moving enrolled farmers to a new administrator after almost a decade of interest-free advances.
AgrotechAGCO chief executive Eric Hansotia told Farms.com that camera-guided spraying, machines that learn from field conditions and AI-assisted support will make the coming ten years agriculture's most innovative.
