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Selecting A Winter Wheat Variety

 
On previous programs, we heard from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry provincial cereal extension specialist Clair Langlois about growing winter wheat. Today, he talks about the importance of choosing the right variety for your particular location, and in looking at such traits as disease resistance, winter survival, and straw.
 
Interview with Clair Langlois (2:27 minutes) (1.12 Mb)
Source : Agriculture and Forestry

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We cover: today I am so excited to share this conversation with my buddy Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania to chat about, well, a lot of things. Eric and his wife Anne have run beech grove farm since 1983 and they do things a little differently (like farming with horses) but they dry farm which we discuss, they use some cover crops in the paths in interesting ways (also discussed) and in fact, we get into a whole digression about their deer fencing that you’re gonna wanna hear.