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Alberta weather website drives next generation agriculture

February, 2010

Better information, better planning, better results for farmers, researchers and industry.

FEATURE ARTICLES

RESEARCH:

Six fundamentals of safe pesticide storage

July 25, 2010

"When you gamble with safety, you bet your life." As this saying reminds, safety is an area where the importance of doing things right is hard to overstate. In the case of farm management, of the most critical areas of safety is the proper storage of agricultural products such as pesticides.

RESEARCH:

AgTech studies Lance fungicide use on dry beans

June 24, 2010

Producers want answers in white mold battle.

RESEARCH:

Getting the most out of pest management today and tomorrow

June 15, 2010

Simple modifications to spraying approaches and equipment can dramatically boost efficacy and reduce drift.

ENVIRONMENT:

VRT: The next frontier for spraying in precision farming?

June 7, 2010

New precision farming approaches to manage spraying better within the field are close. Next comes links to management systems.

RESEARCH NEWS

Proper mixing key to avoiding crop injury. Crop injury from pesticide residue often starts at the chemical mixing stage, says Emile deMilliano, manager of agronomic services with Viterra. "If I look at the situations I've seen in the field where we've seen improper tank cleanouts and injury to crops, it often starts with not doing a proper job of mixing the products. You have to ensure the product gets into solution."

Venturi nozzles only part of the equation, says specialist. "Although venturi nozzles have been known to cut spray drift by half, the fact is that you still can't spray into 25 to 30 mph winds just because you're using a venturi nozzle. There are still other factors to consider, and in today's farming environment, it pays to start thinking about them well in advance of spraying." – Brian Storozynsky, sprayer technology specialist, AgTech Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta.


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We agree that in a cropping system you're not going to keep every single slough and pothole, but it's good to have two or three larger wetlands instead of draining them totally off and losing all of the benefits.

– Jennifer Stoby,
Alberta Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture (AESA)