A uniform grain crop can be far easier to discuss than achieve, but it’s still needed for optimum yields, crop quality, ...
After harvesting early-maturing vegetables such as salad greens, radishes, peas and spinach, gardeners can plant other crops in midsummer for fall harvest. You can successfully grow some root crops, ...
To do so, you need some good, loose soil — a raised bed mix or compost — that will enable you to plant the bulb without much ...
Cover crops are grown outside of the cash crop growing season, usually seeded in the fall and killed before spring planting. Keeping living roots in the ground year-round can improve water management, ...
You can cover the bed with manure in the fall and rotavate it in the ... This manure rich soil is an ideal growing medium for the general root crops but is far too rich for tap root type plants.
The 2024 calendar year was an interesting one within agriculture for farmers in the southeast, and in Saskatchewan as a whole ...
Strawberry plants can be a bit particular about how they are planted in the soil. Not too deep, not too shallow, but just right.
But sweet clover can suppress weed growth while the crop is growing, throughout the fall, and the following growing season. Seed is generally available at reasonable cost. A small seed size and low ...
President of the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers’ Union Dr Shadreck Makombe said if farmers plant maize late, some varieties may ...
High input prices continue to be a pain point for farmers planning their 2023 crop needs, and nitrogen prices are now seeing a resurgence heading into fall. Experts say the price of natural gas ...