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Improving Soil Quality & Plant Growth with Humic Acid

2021/07/13

Today, there is a recognized and increasing use of humic acids for their beneficial impact on the growth and cultivation of crops (vegetable & non-vegetable), turf, flowers, and particularly in organically-deficient soils.

N & P Levels in the Soil

2021/07/09

Farms will be required to soil sample their fields at least once every 3 seasons, if the soil nitrate level is more than 100 kg / hectare (88 pounds per acre) after harvest...

Say Good-Bye to Flies

2021/07/13

Flies are not only a nuisance pest causing undue stress, but they may also transmit diseases to your herd. Streptococcus mastitis bacteria can live up to 16 hours in a fly which is more than enough time to transmit the bacteria from cow to cow.

Stone Wool for Healthy Roots and Productive Plants

2021/07/09

Stone wool (also known as rock wool or mineral wool) is an inert growing medium that was first used in Scandinavian countries in the early 1970’s. At present, over 3000 ha of greenhouse crops are grown on stone wool in Holland alone, due to its practicable, economic, and high-yielding results.

Update on Japanese Beetle

2021/07/09

This article is about a new invasive insect pest that we talked about last fall; Japanese Beetle or Popilaria japonica. On April 8, recently, CBC News informed the public that...

Managing Fungicide Resistance in Blueberries

2021/07/09

Fungicide Resistance refers to an acquired reduction in sensitivity of a fungus to a specific fungicide. Fungicide resistance often develops due to repeated application of fungicides from the same Group on a particular crop.

Another New Pest?

2021/07/09

t seems like every year there is one new insect pest to worry about – usually an invasive species that has found its way here from elsewhere in the world. This time, we are concerned with a beetle; the Rose Stem Girdler, a potential pest of caneberries such as raspberries and blackberries.

Controlling Horsetail

2021/07/09

Horsetail is well known as one of the hardest weeds for any crop producer to manage. There are actually more than 15 species of horsetail to be found in BC, and the most problematic one is Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense).

A New Micronutrient Technology

2021/07/09

Micronutrients including B (Boron) and Zn (Zinc) are required by plants in very tiny amounts. In past years micronutrient ingredients have been added as independent particles separate from macronutrients.

Rethinking Stabilized Nitrogen

2021/07/09

Controlling the release of nitrogen usually takes the form of the slow diffusion of nitrogen through a polymer or sulphur coating, or the break-down of large complex molecules, like urea-formaldehyde, by microbes.

New Environmental Management Regulations

2021/07/09

On February 28, 2019, the Code of Practice for Agricultural Environmental Management (CPAEM) replaced the Agricultural Waste Control Regulation (AWCR). What does this mean, and how does it affect us?

Sweetness in Corn

2021/07/09

Sweetness in corn results from a combination of genes. To keep it simple, we will not only use our layman’s definition of a gene, we will restrict the discussion to the three main genes that affect sweetness.

Phosphorus Deficiency

2021/07/09

Phosphorus is a macro, or major nutrient, required by all plants in considerable amounts, along with the other two macro nutrients, nitrogen and potassium. Most people know that phosphorus plays an important role in early root formation and growth.

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