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Posted on August 6, 2013January 28, 2015

The Cinderella Crop of the Prairies

Rapeseed. The crop with quite possibly the worst imaginable name to try and market as a health food source. A plant with undesirable components, such as erucic acid and glucosinolates,…

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Posted on July 26, 2013January 28, 2015

Harvest Still Feels Very Far Away

Fungicide season is over (mostly), insect populations seem to be on the decline, and our seeding equipment is cleaned up and put away. Our harvesting equipment is mostly ready to…

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Posted on July 19, 2013January 28, 2015

Summer Storms and Narrow Misses

By all accounts, there is a great looking crop out there. In some form or another, most farmers around here have said these words, with the makings of an excellent…

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Posted on July 12, 2013July 10, 2017

Why Do We Spray?

There was a time, not too long ago, that June and July were relatively quiet months on the farm. Once in-crop weed spraying was finished, work in the fields was…

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Posted on June 25, 2013January 28, 2015

Too Many Storms, Not Enough Time

It has been a summer of storms… and summer has barely started. I write this as yet another storms deluges us with rain, a raging downpour that changes our already…

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Posted on June 16, 2013December 21, 2020

The Farm Life is a Wonderful Life

If you have read my previous post (The Marathon Concludes… For Now), you know that seeding has been completed and we are well into in-crop spraying. This is a fascinating…

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Posted on June 13, 2013January 28, 2015

The Marathon Concludes… For Now

It was a long road. Sometimes exhilarating, often frustrating, and consistently exhausting, the 2013 planting season has finally drawn to a close. It is Thursday, June 13, and we “officially”…

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Posted on May 31, 2013January 28, 2015

Could’ve Been Worse

The rain event we needed came on Monday. The rain event we needed to avoid came on Thursday. Yes, the rain that was forecast reared its ugly head early Thursday…

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