Alberta Water Portal Society has an article on droughts history in Alberta:
https://albertawater.com/history-of-drought-in-alberta/#_edn2
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Views on the dry start to the 2024 season as well as other market impacts on cereal markets:
https://www.albertagrains.com/combined-markets/market-insider/a-dry-start-to-plant-2024-s-acreage-plans Greg Stamp had the opportunity to chat with Marc Zienkiewicz of Seed World about market forces related to seed. Sam Taylor a farm inputs analyst for Rabobank was also interviewed and he had some interesting comments about economic trends he sees in agricultural markets: Seed World seeds for Success Webinar
Agronomist Scott Gillespie, owner of Plants Dig Soil Consulting Ltd has an article related to moisture and ultra early seeding. Planting early during drought
I think the biggest challenge is pre-seed burn off and or weed control in general when seeding early. Either we need to plan for that in the fall with a broadleaf residual and glyphosate or only use in crop herbicides. AFSC publishes the Yield 2024 magazine with yield information across Alberta from farmers reported yields. It's a great resource to compare varieties but keep in mind that localized popularity can skew results. For example if a variety is more popular in the highway 2 corridor and a different one is more popular in a really dry area it may make each variety look very different vs if they were grown side by side.
The application process is open again for The On-Farm Climate Action Fund relating to cover crops and farming practices.
We have been involved with Hard White Spring Wheat for 6-7 years and grown AAC Iceberg, and AAC Cirrus. We have AAC Iceberg HWSW seed available now.
This coming fall a new HWSW is launching called AAC Whitehead VB HWSW. It's a midge tolerant high yielding HWSW with better sporting resistance vs. some varieties. New Crop Contracts: Rogers Foods: pipj@rogersfoods.com Cell: 250 309 0087 JGL Commodities: mattf@jglgrain.com Cell: 306 630 9975 JGL is also considering doing some AAC Icefield Hard White Winter Wheat new crop contracts this summer. We will have about 4000 bu of seed available. View our Faba Bean Agronomy and Market Opportunity recording: https://youtu.be/A6Kwmeff-L0?si=puivXJDDhEq0TtT0 Praire Fava from Manitoba is looking to contract irrigation acres of Fabelle faba beans for this coming season in Alberta and may consider all areas of Western Canada. We have had the pleasure of working with Praire Fava for over 5 years. They have some good prices FOB farm Southern Alberta and a sliding scale for delivery window. If you are in SK the price picked up may be higher.
Contact Hailey Jefferies at Prairie Fava at 204 721 4715 hailey@prairiefava.com For seed contact Blair Balog at 403 634 4349 (call or text) or blair@stampseeds.com Victus is a new variety of Faba Bean available now. It should have yields similar to Fabelle.
It can be priced FOB Farm in Southern Alberta for new crop Victus faba beans. (If you are on irrigation in SK this can work as well) They can do full production with an AOG & Nov-Jan delivery to our Minot, ND plant. Contact: Ryan Edinger redinger@agtfoods.com Office: 701-751-1623 For seed contact Blair Balog at 403 634 4349 (call or text) or blair@stampseeds.com Molson Coors is seeking new acres on irrigation in Southern Alberta for this seasons contracts. Contact Cody Shick for details: Cody.Shick@molsoncoors.com
Bill Coors 100 is a 2 row malt barley that is early, stands well and yields like the top feed varieties! For seed contact Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (call or text) or blair@stampseeds.com Triticale has a fibrous root system that can scavenge for moisture and nutrients better vs other cereals and it can be take earlier at milk stage at full tonnage.
TriCal Surge Spring Triticale a new smooth awn triticale available this season. It is a tall variety with lots of material so if growing on irrigation I would suggest a PGR. Seed can not be farm saved on TriCal Surge. Contact Blair Balog at 403-634-4349 (call or text) or blair@stampseeds.com for pricing or for any questions! Luke Wedel with Origin Partners has some old crop rye bids if you have some grain in the bin. Hybrid rye pricing has held up reasonably well this winter considering other crops softening, so consider seeding more rye this fall as we will have 3 great rye varieties available
lwedel@graincorp.ca or cell: 403 499 9819 Friday March 15 @ 9 am I am hosting a zoom event presenting on Water Restricted Irrigation Crop Options (grain and forage) as well as Agronomic Practice Ideas. I gave a similar presentation at the Irrigation districts conference a month ago. Please join tomorrow at 9 am:
https://www.stampseeds.com/events.html I was at the Crop Production Show a few weeks ago and was visiting with the Belle Plaine SK CO-OP Ethanol Complexgrain buying team. I had not heard much about the Clean Fuel Standards that are coming in to North America this summer but was surprised at what I heard.
Below is a summary from another website about what the Clean Fuel Standards are: "The Clean Fuel Standard law requires fuel suppliers to gradually reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels to 20% below 2017 levels by 2034. There are several ways for fuel suppliers to achieve these reductions, including:
Love or hate the carbon markets, here is one opportunity to adjust your farming around these changes. To sell grain (soft / gp wheat, rye, corn ect.) to CEC in SK contact Greg Rivett greg.rivett@cec.crs Economic trends as it applies to seed and farm markets: https://www.seedworld.com/canada/2024/03/05/seeds-for-success-webinar/?utm_campaign=Seed%20World%20Canada%20Update&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=297337651&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8vx3BORysr7GuFLAVW0DgRB_r6f6eEqcyQrlGE4cpSyzimYIFk6NKLmYEFWMT2QwzG0Aa0s32tnUFX3LCSYAPPviPZiQ&utm_content=297337651&utm_source=hs_email
View the recording of our past cover crop webinar with Kevin Elmy: https://youtu.be/7cMgKC4ofGc?si=JiZIWSUlJ4Flgytp
Danielle Ranger has ideas related to succession planning and where to get started:
https://www.daniellewildfong.ca/blog/howtoleadstrongerteams-xj9h7-z9rem How do you pick what to attend and what you want to get out of the events you attend: https://mailchi.mp/363a3993654b/daniellewildfong2019subscribers-15172684
We have been involved with Hard White Spring Wheat for 6-7 years and grown AAC Iceberg, and AAC Cirrus. There are a few end users who buy it and one of the main ones is JGL Commodities from Saskatchewan (Matt - mattf@jglgrain.com ) They have contracted in Alberta & Saskatchewan in the past and we have AAC Iceberg seed available.
This coming fall a new HWSW is launching called AAC Whitehead VB. It's a midge tolerant high yielding HWSW with better sporting resistance vs. some varieties. JGL is also considering doing some AAC Icefield Hard White Winter Wheat new crop contracts this summer. We will have about 4000 bu of seed available. I was scrolling through information on salt tolerant crops and found a nice publication from North Dakota: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/crops/managing-saline-soils-in-north-dakota#section-4 Or:
We are looking for part time help treating seed between March 15 - May 31 at Enchant AB. It can be flexible days and hours, details here: https://www.stampseeds.com/jobs.html
Last week Blair was at the farming smarter conference held in Lethbridge. Wrapping up the first day, Ryan Barnett, a potato agronomist from Prince Edward Island joined to talk about cover crop options before and after potatoes. One highlight that Blair took from the talk was how they are using mustard and buckwheat to help control against wireworms.
Mustard and buckwheat are sensitive to frost, which can be a challenge for southern Alberta. Another challenge to consider are crop rotations, with seed canola being very common in areas where potatoes are grown ,you would want to avoid growing mustard. If rotation is not an issue, and wireworms are a risk on some of your acres, Mustard 21 has a new hybrid brown mustard called AAC Guard. It is a hybrid brown that does not produce seed, which will help the volunteer risk. We have been getting questions about crops that can do well with lower water so that irrigators can move water to other crops.
I am planning on hosting a dry crops on irrigation webinar in early to mid March, but here is some information so you can get thinking of adjustments. Fall crops like Hybrid Fall Rye & Winter Wheat would be a good choice so consider that for this coming fall as they use water earlier so take advantage of spring moisture better. Rye has double the root systems of other crops so it is more of a scavenger for water and the hybrids can handle stress better vs non hybrids. Water timing:
Yields with reduced water:
Choices to lower water use:
What crop can you grow if you will be limited on water?
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