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pH and Limestone

2022/02/15

The uptake of nutrients into plants depends on the acidity of the soil (pH). This is more important to the well-being of a planted crop than most people think. If your plants are not growing within the optimum pH range, nutrients will be inefficiently taken up by the plants, having a detrimental effect on not only the health of your plants, but the size and quality of the harvested produce.

How to Acidify Your Soil

2022/02/15

Blueberries for example require lower soil pH, or acidity, than is required by crops such as raspberries, corn, forage grass and vegetables. Typically, highbush blueberries must have soil pH between 4.5 and 5.5. If your soil test shows a higher pH, what can be done to decrease it?

Insectaries & Cover Crops

2021/07/13

It is very important in sustainable agriculture to keep and create natural refuges and buffers that can act as insectaries for not only a wide range of bees, butterflies, parasitic wasps and...

Educated Farming Practices Help Bees

2021/07/09

When using insecticides in either conventional or certified organic production systems, it is important to use them selectively. Use should be based on careful monitoring...

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...

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).

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.

Managing Soil Compaction

2021/07/09

Soil compaction is often thought of as a problem associated with perennial berry, grape or tree fruit plantations, in which equipment passes over the same places for many years...

Reasons to use Sluggo

2021/07/09

Did you know that Sluggo Slug & Snail Bail is now registered for use at only 11 pounds per acre? ...

Sweet Corn Weed Control

2021/07/09

For vegetable growers, sweet corn is a good rotational crop because there are a number of products that can be used in corn that also help break the weed cycle. However, weed control in early plantings can still be challenging as the weather can limit the number of opportunities to enter the field prior to planting.

Feed Your Sweet Corn the Right Way

2021/07/09

The best strategy related to planning how to feed your upcoming corn field is to take a soil sample and send it to the Plant Science Lab at TerraLink’s Abbotsford office. Not only will you be given an agronomic recommendation of how best to feed your corn, it has been proven repeatedly that a soil test saves you money. How?

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