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Agricultural Events & Tradeshows - Country Guide
WEBAgri-Trade Equipment Expo. Reading Time: < 1 minute “…attracts annually over 30,000 qualified agriculture buyers and over 475 equipment manufacturers and agricultural services to Red Deer. Agri-Trade is considered one of the best agricultural equipment shows in Canada generating an estimated $300 million annually in equipment sales and ...
Agriculture Machinery & Farming Equipment - Country Guide
WEBMay 3, 2023 · Reading Time: < 1 minute Agricultural Manufacturers of Canada has launched at mobile skills lab at Ag in Motion 2024. Country Guide provides Canadian farmers the latest in agriculture machinery to help their business succeed through strategic business thinking.
Lookout Holsteins and Jerseys ‘start from scratch’ - Country Guide
WEBAug 27, 2014 · When they started farming together in 1988, Callum McKinven and Katherine Beerwort were newlyweds without any significant worldly possessions. Callum had grown up on a farm that was well known within the Jersey-breeding world, but it had been inherited by his brother. Katherine came from a large family that had also experienced great success ...
Controlling scentless chamomile with herbicides - Country Guide
WEBDec 17, 2019 · Figure 1: Unsprayed control. Photo: Supplied. Several herbicide treatments were evaluated in a 2019 on-farm research trial to determine best management options for scentless chamomile, a weed with a reputation for being difficult to control. Although 10 treatments provided greater than 80 per cent visual …
The difference between noodles and pasta - Country Guide
WEBJan 21, 2016 · Noodles and pasta are common food products that people often think are the same thing, but beneath the surface there is a lot that differentiates them, says a technical staff member at Cigi (Canadian International Grains Institute).“Visitors to Cigi’s processing facilities frequently ask what is the difference between them,” says Kasia Kaminska, technician in Asian products and extrusion ...
Good, clean fun. The man behind #andyclean - Country Guide
WEBJan 4, 2023 · Now, a tractor could be Andy clean. Not that anyone knew it at the time, but the silly joke between friends was the beginning of Pasztor’s eventual soap business, Andy Clean. Call it the tweet that launched a thousand sales. Long before the soap business ever blossomed, though, the #andyclean hashtag made the rounds and, without quite knowing ...
Growing wheat in Eastern Canada - Country Guide
WEBDec 14, 2021 · Booker and lead technician Micheal Pavone are studying winter survival and wheat pathology with fusarium head blight, rusts and powdery mildew, even though yield and yield stability are facets growers are most interested in. “But it’s other factors such as winterkill and diseases that ultimately limit yield and reduce grain quality,” says ...
Spreadsheet tools for farmers – Country Guide
WEBSep 14, 2016 · Dollars/bushel/tonne converter (Alberta) Converts between dollars/bushel and dollars/tonne for various grains. Test weight converter (Alberta) Converts back and forth between kg/hL and lbs./bushel. Provincial government extension staff have created many spreadsheet tools farmers can use to plug in data to help make better short- or long-term ...