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• EDITOR'S NOTE: Your advisors.
• RESEARCH REVEIW:July 2007 W.

Editorial

• INTRODUCTION : Building better management practices.
• Introduction. From the first to the last.
• Introduction. From the first to the last.
• Introduction. There is a place for professionals.
• Introduction. There is a place for professionals.
• Introduction. Your reference!.
• Introduction. Your reference!.
• Introduction: An evolving view of the west.
• INTRODUCTION: Crop and story development.
• INTRODUCTION: Debate is a healthy thing.
• INTRODUCTION: Diligence is paramount.
• INTRODUCTION: Keep building better practices.
• INTRODUCTION: Keep learning.
• INTRODUCTION: Keep learning.
• INTRODUCTION: Looking ahead.
• INTRODUCTION: More of what you expect.
• INTRODUCTION: Most things change.
• INTRODUCTION: Most things change .
• INTRODUCTION: Near and far.
• Introduction: New year, new outlook.
• INTRODUCTION: Outside the box.
• INTRODUCTION: Progress without change.
• INTRODUCTION: Progress without change.
• INTRODUCTION: Pulses and business.
• INTRODUCTION: Rising with the biofuel tide.
• INTRODUCTION: The food chain and the feeding chain.
• INTRODUCTION: The food chain and the feeding chain.
• INTRODUCTION: The reading season.
• INTRODUCTION: The reading season .
• INTRODUCTION: The rush of change.
• INTRODUCTION: The season ahead.
• Introduction: There are always alternatives.
• Introduction: There is a place for professionals.
• INTRODUCTION: Trends in the making.
• INTRODUCTION: Trends in the making.
• INTRODUCTION: Upward pressure.
• INTRODUCTION: Upward pressure.
• INTRODUCTION: You got me thinking.
• INTRODUCTION: You had your chance!.
• INTRODUCTION: You had your chance!.
• INTRODUCTION: Your reference!.
• INTRODUCTION:Keep learning.
• INTRODUCTION:The 26th annual.
• INTRODUCTION:The value of research.
• INTRODUCTION:Thinking one year out?.
• Three things to mention!.

Features

• 140 bushels per acre of irrigated soft white wheat!.
• A better understanding of re-cropping.
• A developing opportunity.
• A difference with lentils.
• A different mode of action.
• A look at what's coming down the pipeline.
• A look into Argentina's wheat crop.
• A model irrigation program.
• A multi-pronged fight against ascochyta.
• A natural plant growth regulator that works.
• A new 'one-pass' corn herbicide for Ontario .
• A new tool of the trade.
• A new twist (tie) on gauging control.
• A resource for seed corn producers.
• A rust of a different stripe.
• A serious disease threatens central Alberta.
• A vision of the soybean sector.
• A weapon in the fight against fusarium.
• Aaerial application technology.
• Achieving fuel efficiency.
• Achieving success with variable rate fertilization.
• Adding value to Canadian soybeans.
• Adjust bertha armyworm thresholds based on crop prices.
• Advancements in plant health.
• Advancements in plant health.
• Advice direct from grower's own employee.
• Aerial fungicide control in chickpeas can work.
• Aerial offensive.
• Agronomic tips to reduce ascochyta blight in chickpeas .
• Aiming for ethanol.
• Air-drills suited for seeding corn.
• All is not golden for producers affected by nematode.
• Alternaria black spot control options expanded.
• Alternatives to 34-0-0 nitrogen fertilizer.
• An idea takes off.
• Anhydrous ammonia the most economic N source.
• Another corn herbicide active.
• Another year, another virus.
• Anthracnose in corn not a priority.
• Anti-aphid soybeans hold much promise.
• Aphid antibiosis rating gives growers new tool.
• Application tests in Brazil.
• Apply manure to native rangeland?.
• Are soybean genetics improving?.
• Are soybeans truly the 'resilient one'?.
• Are the ‘Seedrow N Guidelines’ reliable in cold and wet no-till soils?.
• Are there limits to adoption of no-till systems on Black soils?.
• Are violets taking over your field?.
• Are you achieving the full benefit afforded by fallow moisture?.
• Are you considering cutting back on crop inputs?.
• Are you paying to feed weeds?.
• Armyworm another of many pests to watch.
• As edible beans increase, so does anthracnose.
• Ascochyta disease prediction model pays off .
• Assessing droplet size and coverage.
• Assessing performance of band applied elemental sulphur.
• Assessing soybean seeding dates.
• Assessing the value of organic matter.
• Aster yellows looks bad but usually causes little yield loss .
• Atlantic cross-border information sharing.
• Atrazine assessment yields interesting results.
• Attempting to reduce soil P levels in manured fields.
• Avoid herbicide residues when planting hybrid forages.
• Awareness is essential for soybean rust.
• Bad '06 heightens rootworm risk for '07.
• Balancing nutrient inputs with crop removal:.
• Balancing nutrient needs.
• Barley management influences wild oats and disease pressure.
• Barley milling and utilization of fractions.
• Barley varieties ranked according to competitive ability.
• Bayfield's unprecedented success.
• Be prepared with a soil test.
• Bean leaf beetles one more concern.
• Beating blight.
• Bee nice.
• Benchmark soil sampling: steps to success.
• Best bets against common scab.
• Best management practices for producing specialty canolas.
• Best practices for malt barley.
• Between-the-rows seeding opens door to big cost savings.
• Beware of fertilizers in herbicide tank.
• Beyond glyphosate.
• Biocontrol of sclerotinia.
• Biodiesel strategy could boost canola demand.
• Biodiesel: making it work.
• Biological control agents for weeds.
• Biological products changing definition of seed treatments.
• Biotech's 'Next Generation' already here.
• Boost returns by matching inputs to land productivity.
• Brassica oilseed crops differ in response to sulphur fertilization.
• Breeding fusarium wilt resistance into field pea.
• Broadleaf weed control in chickpeas shows potential.
• Broadleaf weed impact on your crop.
• Building on a reputation.
• Cabbage seedpod weevil update.
• Can biofuel and potato production co-exist?.
• Can precision farming techniques be used for disease control?.
• Can straight cut canola work?.
• Canada fleabane a minor problem in most crops.
• Canola is for more than just oil.
• Canola pod abortion investigated.
• Canola rivals barley in salt tolerance.
• Canola seed index predicts field performance.
• Capturing the promise of ethanol production.
• Careful management controls beetles and preserves tools.
• Cereal disease.
• Cereal leaf beetle is an emerging pest in Alberta .
• Certified seed situation a developing crisis.
• Challenges and opportunities of hemp.
• Challenging times.
• Changes in races of oat stem rust intensify.
• Changes to surfactant packaging are making a difference.
• Chinese biotech poised to expand.
• Choosing your field for peas.
• Clarification to swathing effects on canola seed quality.
• Clean out the sprayer tank!.
• Clearing confusion on seed treatments.
• Combine tuning means money.
• Commitment to crop scouting pays dividends.
• Committed to IRM compliance.
• Common scab.
• Compaction a pressing issue with a wet fall.
• Compaction: out of sight, out of mind.
• Compost makes a good P fertilizer for potatoes.
• Composting manure becoming a viable option.
• Continuing the battle against blackleg strains.
• Continuous corn back on radar.
• Control late blight early.
• Control of white mould not always easy in lentils.
• Controlled drainage has big benefits.
• Controlled release phosphate fertilizer shows promise.
• Controlling crop disease... naturally.
• Controlling fusarium:.
• Controlling oat stem rust.
• Controlling round-leaved mallow .
• Copper cropper.
• Copper fertilization on your farm.
• Copper's role in ergot formation and crop lodging.
• Corn rootworm pressure difficult to predict for 2006.
• Corn rootworm research uncovers root feeding.
• Cornbelt moves north.
• Could fusarium head blight become an even more serious problem?.
• Could these potatoes improve soil life?.
• Counting the twin costs.
• Cover crop debate continues.
• Cover crops fit with low residue crops.
• Crop adviser stresses importance of record keeping.
• Crop consulting in the Brown soil zone.
• Crop injury: how often and how bad?.
• Crop management key in resistance build-up.
• Crop nutrition decisions key to 2005 yields.
• Crop rotations with herbicide tolerant crops.
• Curled dock causing trouble in Red River Valley.
• Cutting energy costs for crop production.
• Decision processes for barley fungicide application.
• Delayed release N fertilizer works for winter cereals.
• Delving deeper than just yield.
• Desiccate or wait? - it depends.
• Designer beans.
• Determining safe seed-placed fertilizer blend rates.
• Determining safe seedrow P and K blends.
• Developing pea seeding rate guidelines.
• Dicamba resistance getting closer.
• Dicamba-resistant canola in the future?.
• Direct seeding corn into alfalfa sod.
• Diversity helps sustainability.
• Do you really need micronutrients? .
• Does variable rate fertilizing pay.
• Don't rush into niche pea production.
• DONcast gets a face-lift.
• Double boom sprayer saves up to $15,000 per year.
• Downy brome control in direct seeding.
• Dramatic comeback for PEI seed industry.
• Drill maintenance versus proper planting depth.
• Early planting corn working.
• Edible beans a growing target for bugs and viruses.
• EDITOR'S NOTE : Your advisors.
• End-of-season stalk test adds confidence.
• Environmental farm planning focuses on improving practices.
• Enzymes lower costs for cellulosic ethanol.
• Ergot: an ancient problem that won't go away.
• ESN urea fertilizer fits winter wheat in the fall.
• European corn borer likes Canadian potatoes .
• Evaluating corn growing systems.
• Expected 2004 grasshopper boom went bust!.
• Expertise helps Hamblin's organics.
• Exploring the power of plant diversity.
• FACTS FROM MY FARM.
• Fall tank-mixes can impact crop.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: April 2005 W.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: April 2007.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: August 2007.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: December 2005.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: December 2006.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: February 2005 W.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: February 2006.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: February 2007.
• Farm Equipment Review: February 2008 WTC.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: Harvest machinery.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: Jan 05 W.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: January 2007.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: July 2006 W.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: March 2006.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: March 2006 W.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: November 06 W.
• Farm Equipment Review: November 2005.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: November 2005.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: November 2005 W.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: November 2006.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: November 2007 E.
• Farm Equipment Review: November 2007 W.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW: Planting machinery.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW:March 2005.
• FARM EQUIPMENT REVIEW:POT Feb 07.
• Farm market thrives on partnership.
• Farm saved or certified seed?.
• Farmers accept role for greater environmental stewardship.
• Farming with low residue a concern.
• Feeding your oats.
• Fenugreek as a forage for cattle.
• Fertility damage control after heavy rains.
• Fertilizer BMPs for the Northern Great Plains – .
• Fertilizing alfalfa seed stands improves yields.
• Fertilizing sulphur sufficient soils.
• Fertilizing winter wheat:.
• Fertilizing with boron in the prairie region.
• Fertilizing with copper: Will your crops benefit? Part II.
• Fifty years of research and extension.
• Finding the right hybrid for ethanol.
• Fine-tuning P recommendations on field peas.
• First hybrid takes alfalfa in a new direction.
• Foliar fertilization fallacies.
• Food grade soybeans forging new path.
• Food safety protocol challenges growers.
• Forage fertility... planning for 2007.
• Forages and potatoes fit together.
• Foraging for alternatives.
• Foundation of herbicide may help corn yields.
• From farming to pharming.
• From strength to gluten strength.
• From wild plant to new prairie crop.
• Frost seeding wheat getting more attention.
• Fuel for thought.
• Fungicide increases malt barley kernel quality.
• Fungicide's arrival and performance welcome.
• Fungicides are key in dealing with rust.
• Fusarium diseases common in Alberta.
• Fusarium fighters making headway.
• Fusarium in soybeans not new, not appreciated.
• Future foods today.
• Genetic selection a year-round process.
• Germplasm resistant to potato beetle and late blight.
• Get ready to spray soybean diseases.
• Getting agronomic information out to the practitioners.
• Getting more from less.
• Getting planted earlier?.
• Getting the most from glyphosate tolerant production systems.
• Getting the most out of fertilizer.
• Getting the wild out of your tame oats.
• Getting to know your crop this summer.
• Getting to malt.
• Getting to the roots of disease.
• Getting with the program.
• Giving field peas an extended crop production credit.
• Glycemic index complicated but coming.
• Glyphosate resistance continues to build.
• Glyphosate use in canola production systems.
• Good agronomic advice crosses many international borders.
• Good decisions come from better questions.
• Grain bags provide ideal storage.
• Grain contracts help manage market volatility and achieve target returns.
• Grain marketing: Risks and revenue.
• Grazing and growing.
• Grazing corn expansion poses fusarium risk.
• Ground manoeuvres.
• Ground versus aerial application.
• Group 2 herbicides: where do they fit?.
• Grow bigger kabuli chickpea seed.
• Grow your chickpea marketing plan.
• Grow your own fuel?.
• Grower preference for IP fluctuating.
• Growers need to adjust to demand from millers, processors.
• Growing winter wheat within the parkland region.
• Guidance systems open new doors.
• HACCP on the farm still a ways away.
• Harvest decisions.
• Harvest timing of oilseeds affects yields.
• Haskup - the newest fruit crop for the prairies.
• Have soybean yields reached a plateau?.
• Heading back to the classroom.
• Headline.
• Healthier crops, fewer pest problems.
• Healthy growth for specialties.
• Heat, sun and moisture - striking a balance.
• Hedging your bets against Mother Nature.
• Hemp, hemp, hooray?.
• Herbicide application timing more important.
• Herbicide resistant wild oats needs control.
• Herbicide stacking residues are possible, but rare.
• Herbicide tolerant lentils hotly anticipated.
• High yield canola uses 40 pounds of phosphorus.
• Hit dandelions in the fall.
• Hosting test plots worth the effort.
• Hot, dry summer equals green stem soybeans.
• How are fertilizer prices determined?.
• How growing pulse crops boosts yield potential of the next crop.
• How herbicides affect nodulation and N fixation.
• How Nitrogen increases phosphate placement flexibility.
• How real is the prospect of a looming corn crisis?.
• How to do on-farm trials.
• Huge potential for soybean traits.
• Identify leaf symptoms properly so you don't spray unnecessarily.
• Imbibition: nothing else matters.
• Impact of crop residue type on phosphorus release.
• Impact of dry conditions on potato yield.
• Impact of inputs on profitability of canola and barley.
• Implications of cutting back on fertilizer.
• Implications of cutting inputs may be high.
• Improved chickpeas in the works.
• Improved segregation in wheat is the goal.
• Improving phosphorus availability in wheat.
• Improving plant health with fungicides.
• In herbicides, timing is everything, too.
• In terms of seed, there's no place like home.
• In-crop N management for high protein wheat rarely pays.
• Increasing management levels on a budget.
• INDUSTRY NEWS.
• INDUSTRY NEWS: April 2007.
• INDUSTRY NEWS: March 2005.
• INDUSTRY NEWS: March 2006.
• INDUSTRY NEWS: March 2007.
• Innovations with IMI chemistry.
• Insect myths.
• Integrated Canada thistle control on pastures.
• Integrated management improves profitability.
• Integrated root maggot control.
• Intercropping oilseeds and legumes under no-till.
• Internet supports more farm businesses.
• Introducing a winner.
• Invasive plants are everyone's problem.
• Investigating economic thresholds for Canada thistle in forages.
• IP in the land where volume is king.
• Irrigation management to prevent fusarium.
• Is it Congo or British Columbia Blue?.
• Is it time to consider applying ammonia at seeding?.
• It pays to listen to consumers: a variety case study.
• It's never too early to think about harvest.
• Japanese visitors get closer look.
• Keep diseases off balance - 'rotate'.
• Keep it moving to make money.
• Keeping your soil healthy.
• Landscape restoration a growing solution.
• Leaf diseases fungicide update 2008.
• Learning more about soybean aphids.
• Learning to be early.
• Lessons from grazing corn in 2006.
• Leveraging your financials: Part I.
• Leveraging your financials: Part I.
• Life with adventitious presence.
• Linking soil nitrogen level to herbicide effectiveness .
• Little change in soil P and K in the Northern Great Plains.
• Long-term zero-till pays back.
• Looking for lupin markets .
• Low retail prices can cost more than you expect.
• Lupin: overcoming the hurdles.
• MACHINERY.
• Magnetic device may reduce fuel costs.
• Make the business choice.
• Making soil tests work.
• Making the research rounds.
• Making tracks in reducing losses.
• Making zones work.
• Manage chickpea maturity with fertilizer.
• Manage risk and maximize profit potential.
• Managing ascochyta blight in chickpeas.
• Managing disease, crops a matter of specifics.
• Managing economic risk in grazing corn.
• Managing elemental vs. sulphate-S at retail.
• Managing for protein.
• Managing lentil fertility.
• Managing phosphorus-based manure inputs .
• Managing red smudge in durum wheat.
• Managing risk in your business.
• Managing risk on the farm: tools and strategies.
• Managing volunteer canola in RR soybeans.
• Managing weed control timing.
• Mandatory three year rotation a reality.
• Manure maker, or manure taker?.
• Manure maker, or manure taker? Part II.
• Many angles to building farm chemicals .
• Marketing plan maximizes profit potential.
• Marketing takes vision, discipline.
• Maximizing residual herbicide efficacy.
• Maximizing seed and seedrow fertilizer benefits.
• Mid-row versus side-band.
• Minor Use registration program a hit.
• Mn antagonism with glyphosate uncertain.
• Molecular biology shows route to new crops.
• More milk in the tank, more dollars in the pocket.
• More wheat in fields, more to manage .
• Mounting resistance management strategies.
• Mustard: more than just a condiment.
• N, P and K: fertilizer management for oats.
• Narrow row sunflower production possible.
• Natural enemies - farmers' unpaid helpers.
• Navigating the biofuel maze.
• Net blotch may be less of a problem with sweep openers.
• New corn research actually old.
• New DNA test pinpoints disease, removes all doubt.
• New farm management group increases skills.
• New fertilizer makes sulphur nutrition more accurate.
• New herbicide registrations in forage and turf seed crops.
• New herbicide tolerance system unveiled.
• New inoculant offers added benefits.
• New lentil varieties for 2008.
• New NAFTA label a boon to growers.
• New options for pest control.
• New races of sunflower rust cause concern.
• New seed treatment holds much promise.
• New species of corn cyst nematode on radar.
• New Sundre barley breaking barriers.
• New tape trial boosts on-farm comparisons.
• New traits for better varieties.
• New wheat and barley varieties hitting the market.
• New wheat class promises new opportunities.
• Next destination for Canadian soybeans: Vietnam .
• Nitrogen credit:.
• Nitrogen fertilizer enhances fertilizer-P uptake.
• Nitrogen sensor could help manage risk.
• Nitrogen strategies for durum.
• Nitrogen strategies for winter wheat.
• No worries with more corn.
• No yield boost from micronutrients in peas.
• No-till disc openers work well: Part I.
• No-till seeding into heavy clay.
• Not all pathogens survive on crop residues.
• Nutrient management plan is a positive development.
• Nutrient planning impacted by new manure regulations.
• Oat crown rust races challenging breeders and growers.
• Oat hulls as energy source more than hot air.
• Oats variety could open new markets.
• Oilseed advantages on the prairies.
• Old enemy, new threat.
• On the lookout for US corn rootworms.
• On-farm seed treatment technology.
• Ontario sentinel plots: watching for rust.
• Ontario's huge winter wheat potential.
• Ontario's seed corn crop on the move.
• Optimizing cereal yield-tuning for 'tops in crops'.
• Optimizing dryland pea yields.
• Optimizing nitrogen fertilizer response.
• Organic crop management and soil phosphorus.
• Organic options for weed control.
• Organic practices show promise for conventional systems.
• Out-'slugging' soybeans an emerging issue.
• Owning a different harvesting system.
• Paper trail on food safety becoming essential.
• Payments for carbon storage - finally!.
• Pea leaf weevil continues to spread.
• Pea leaf weevil has potential to cause problems.
• Pea varieties affect productivity .