July 16, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Western Canada
We are excited to announce the launch of P&H Central! This is the new online platform for doing business with P&H. Log in wherever and whenever is most convenient for you and keep your business moving. You will be able to access P&H Central on your computer, tablet, mobile web, and mobile app.
July 12, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Western Canada
Should you use pre-harvest products for weed control or for crop desiccations? With the right product and expert knowledge from P&H you could do both.
Pre-harvest products, like glyphosate, are used against hard-to-control perennials such as Canada Thistle and Quackgrass, best controlled during the fall when leaf area is at its maximum. In cereals, application timing and crop staging are critical for product uptake.
For cereals, a pre-harvest with application with glyphosate can only occur when the crop is at 30% or less moisture content. (more…)
June 30, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Western Canada
After a wet seeding season in parts of Canada this growing season, it’s important to scout your crops often and assess frequently for signs of disease pressure during the early growing stages. Along with frequent scouting, fungicides are another option to help protect your seeding investment during the most vulnerable growing stages.
When deciding to apply an in-crop fungicide there are a few considerations including crop variety and disease rating. It’s important to consider the realistic expectations for your crop based on the chosen variety and current environmental factors.
June 24, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Western Canada
Canola progress on pace with past year and lower US corn sales: read about these market factors and more in this week’s P&H Western Weekly Recap.
Canola / Soybean
-Canola futures were slightly lower on the week w/ the Sept contract closing down just over $1/MT at $622.50.
-For the week ending June 17, SK crop development for Oilseeds was classified at 4% ahead, 55% normal and 41% behind, crop conditions will be out next week. AB crop report showed canola crop conditions rated as 64.8% G/E. MB’s latest crop report showed that 96% of the crop was seeded and some re-seeding had occurred due to overly wet conditions. (more…)
June 1, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Uncategorized, Western Canada
Take Advantage of Higher Old-Crop Prices Before They Turn and Think About Pricing New Crop to Help With Cashflow
There’s a point when old crop price drops. It’s usually in late June or early July. Don’t get caught with grain still in your bin when that happens.
Remember economics 101? Markets operate under the law of supply and demand. There’s a moment every spring or early summer when end users suddenly decide they have enough grain to get them through the rest of the year until new crop gets harvested. Demand drops. Price follows.
May 31, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Uncategorized, Western Canada
Going into the crop year is stressful, and problem weeds or insects only add to that stress. Deciding where to start can be overwhelming, but there are a few key areas you can focus on to build a proactive strategy to manage problem weeds and insects. (more…)
April 29, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Uncategorized, Western Canada
Nitrogen stabilizers help ensure that the nitrogen is available to the crop by helping to reduce nitrogen loss. Nitrogen stabilizers are products that can help to slow the conversion of nitrogen to forms that are more susceptible to loss. Urease inhibitors slow the transformation of urea to ammonium, which can convert to ammonia gas and be lost by volatilization. This means that you’re left with less usable N in the soil for crop production. (more…)
April 1, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Western Canada
Pre-emergents are a foundational part of a successful herbicide-based weed management program.
Timing and environmental factors will affect efficacy, but the appropriate herbicide applied at the right time can have significant benefits to overall crop health and quality. Developing a pro-active pre-emergent strategy is one way to effectively control weed populations and improve crop yields.
As weed resistance becomes more wide spread, pre-emergents are one way producers can combat weed populations and reduce nutrient competition early. They can help spread work load and ensure that your protection products are applied before weed populations explode.
March 1, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Uncategorized, Western Canada
You can’t recover yield potential lost from a poor start in the critical first weeks of seeding, and treatments are one tool you can use to protect yield potential and ROI.
This winter we’ve seen warm temperatures and low snow fall throughout most of Canada. That means your soil structure and disease pressure could look much different than if you were predicting four feet of snow. Choosing seed varieties with the best genetic potential for your operation is crucial. And part of the planning and variety selection process should include choosing a seed treatment.
Seed treatments act as a preventative measure against soil-borne diseases and pests, and can help you offset certain production challenges before the seed is in the ground. (more…)
January 23, 2024 | Eastern Canada, Uncategorized, Western Canada
Aside from an extreme weather event, the winter months are the last chance to make calculated crop plan adjustments.
Crop planning with P&H can help you finalize crop rotation plans, select seed varieties with agronomic traits that fit your farm, and create a fertility plan that matches the selected varieties and the fertility of your fields. It’s more important than ever to hyper-analyze costs of each input, and carefully select the right inputs for your farm with the current environmental conditions.
