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Case IH launches the Optum 440, expanding the Optum lineup with redesigned styling, strong engine performance, fast transport speeds, high hydraulic flow, and versatile configurations for modern farm productivity and operator comfort.

Have you been feeling scared to keep the seeds from your crops? Have those seed books with their 1 to 2 mile isolation distances gotten you down? This minisode is all about how to cheat those formal isolation distances and still harvest seed that works for your farm.

In this episode we get into

• The four main isolation crop groups and what distances you can get away with

• How to create physical barriers are your farm to grow things even closer

• What crops you can grow in easy to make isolation cages

Of course, it wouldn’t be a Seed Farmer episode if we didn’t get into how a little bit of crossing is a good thing.

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A sharp jump in fuel and fertilizer prices has Canada’s agriculture producers engaged in a pricey game of chance. Prices for diesel and fertilizer have nearly doubled since the war involving the U.S, Iran and Israel, as the stalemate has choked vital oil and gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. That’s impacting commodities down the line, and a shortage of fertilizer could make this upcoming crop year a gamble for farmers. The families of Bruce Bird and Dave Reid have had farms in Cremona, northwest of Calgary, for more than a century. Both men threw the dice last fall and pre-purchased both fuel and fertilizer to get them through this growing season, with seeding about two weeks away. “We’ve tied up hundreds of thousands of dollars,” said Bird, 48, who farms about 1,300 hectares. “Had I not been able to justify the cost involved, I would have been a minimum of $100,000 further behind for exactly the same product, the same rates, the same everything.” Bird said even with t