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Crop Rotation: The Best Management Practice
The best crop management practice is one that may not even seem like work. Crop rotation is when you plant different crops one after the other on the same plot of land to improve yields and combat problems such as: Crop diseases. By rotating crops, you reduce...
Choosing the Right Forage Stock Blend for Your Farm
Every grower’s needs are different and at BrettYoung, we know that. Some growers deal with wet soils, others with dry, and some deal with a mixture of the two. Some forage crops are grown to feed cow/calf pairs and others for a dairy herd or horses. Whatever your...
Tall Fescue: The Versatile Grass Crop
Tall fescue is a perfect turf grass for athletic fields and lawns — but it’s also a great soil reclamation tool and good for growers wanting a multi-year crop when grown for seed production. Compared to other cool season grass crops, tall fescue is more...
Cover Cropping: How to Do It
Cover crops are not a new or novel concept, but their traction has grown in recent years across the prairies. They’re not cash crops — they simply cover the soil to provide a number of agronomic benefits to the land. A cover crop’s purpose is to protect bare,...
The New Winners in Alfalfa
Forages are the foundation of BrettYoung. We partner with elite genetics providers and Western Canadian seed growers to offer alfalfa varieties of only the highest quality and purity. This year, we’ve added two alfalfa products to our repertoire that we know...