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.
What are the benefits of seed treatments?
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…)
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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.
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June 19, 2023
| Uncategorized
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.
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April 28, 2023
| Uncategorized
GPOs and other tools can protect your returns, even in a volatile market
As is often the case this time of year, we’re in a weather market for wheat. It seems every morning there’s a new announcement somewhere in the world that causes markets to move.
That’s often the case in the spring when seeding is happening across North America. There’s a lot of energy in the market. News makes it sound like it’s too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry. We’re in a weather market now.
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