Over the year we’ve seen farmers pushing or tightening their cropping rotations based on higher return crops like pulses and oilseeds.
Wheatland Conservation Area is one of eight Agri-Arm Research Sites in the Province.
The group runs applied research trials in the Southwest.
Bryan Nybo is Farm Manager and says there’s been a drop in cereal acres with producers tightening up pulse and oilseed rotations, which can pose some problems.
"We looked at some of the lower class wheat, some of the medium class wheat like the CPS, the general purpose wheat, and the soft white wheat, things like that and compared them to the higher class wheat," he said. "For example, the hard red spring and the durum and we did two different input management practices, and we looked at the economics of each."
Nybo says last year Wheatland Conservation did a trial looking at the economics of using various input management strategies with some of lower class wheat options.
"Don't always have to rely on wheat and durum," he said. "There are other cereal options out there. We have to try and maintain cereals in the rotation. It's an important part of the rotation, and hopefully, we can give them some options to do that profitability."
Source : Discoverestevan