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Tissue Testing: Best Practices, Result Interpretation, and Value Proposition

Course Description: This course is designed to give you a complete understanding of how leaf tissue analysis can strengthen your crop nutrition program. Rather than viewing tissue testing as a once-a-season report, this course explains how it can become a proactive tool that can help with protecting yield potential and improving long-term fertility planning. Throughout the …

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Reaching your Crop’s Genetic Potential with Seed Nutrition

Course Description: This course aim to provide a complete understanding of seed nutrient density and its critical role in improving crop establishment, early growth, and yield potential. In this course will learn about physiological processes of seed germination, the essential nutrients required for seedling development, and the factors that influence nutrient availability from soil to …

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Deep Dive into Biostimulant Mode of Action

Course Description: This course provides a complete understanding of plant biostimulants and how they can be a valuable tool to improve plant growth and yield. Across seven sections, we will learn about the different types of biostimulants and how they help plants perform better under both normal and stressful conditions. Through real-life RNA sequencing studies …

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The Rhizosphere, Part 2

Course Description Healthy soils are the foundation of productive cropping system. This course explores how plant roots and soil organisms work together to improve nutrient cycling, water use, and plant health. We will learn about how crop diversity, companion planting, and crop sequencing can help enhance soil biological activity and nutrient availability. The course also …

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Understanding Soil Moisture in Plant Nutrition

Understanding the Role of Soil Moisture in Plant Nutrition

Course Description: Soil moisture plays a key role in nutrient availability, root development, and driving yield in dryland cropping systems. Modern agronomic practices have led to significant stratification of immobile nutrients in the soil profile, making water availability even more critical. In this course we will explore how to use data from soil tests, tissue …

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The 4R’s of Foliar Nutrition and Beyond

Course Description: This course provides a detailed overview of foliar nutrition and how it can be used as a strategic tool to supplement plant nutrient needs throughout the crop cycle. In this course , we will learn the scientific principles behind foliar nutrient absorption and how the Four R’s – Right Source, Right Rate, Right …

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Plants Speak and We are Listening

Course Description: This course explores how plants communicate, how soil and tissue analytics can enhance agronomic decision-making, and how nutrient management strategies improve plant health and yield. By integrating cutting-edge technology, such as RNA sequencing, electrophysiology, and microbial soil testing, this course provides a data-driven approach to plant nutrition and stress management. Time: 54 minutes …

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Decoding Soil Biology – Influence of Biostimulants on the Soil Microbiome

Course Description: This course provides an in-depth understanding of soil health, biostimulants, and soil genomic testing, highlighting their impact on crop productivity and regenerative agriculture practices. The modules cover fundamental principles, analytical methods, practical applications, and precision farming techniques. Time: Approx. 50 minutes + Quiz Quiz: 15 Questions CCA/CEU Credits: 1.0 Soil and Water* * CEU credits will …

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Understanding and Managing the Rhizosphere for Soil and Plant Health

Course Description: The rhizosphere is the biologically active zone around plant roots, where complex interactions between plants, microbes, nutrients, and soil structure determine plant health and productivity. This course explores the fundamental processes occurring in the rhizosphere, the role of mycorrhizal fungi, microbial interactions, and practical applications for improving soil fertility and crop resilience. By …

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Maximizing Wheat Yield Potential

Course Description: This course provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, creating, and protecting wheat yield potential through strategic agronomic practices. It is divided into three key sections: By the end of this course, participants will have a practical understanding of yield optimization strategies and the ability to implement science-driven, field-tested practices that contribute to higher wheat productivity and farm profitability. Time: Approx. 45 …

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Water Quality and it’s Implication for Product Efficacy

Course Description: Even though water is the cheapest thing in a spray tank mix, its quality has significant impact on the success of every other product in the tank. Bad quality water not only reduces the pesticide/herbicide efficacy but also have a negative impact on the plant. In this course we will learn about the …

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Water Drives Everything – Balancing Logistics, Agronomics, Profit and Sustainability (LAPS)

Course Description: Western Canadian farmers face challenges like short growing seasons, limited seed capacity, and logistical constraints. In this course we will learn how new technologies for moisture monitoring and real time soil and tissue analysis enable growers to make informed decision leading to improved crop health and increase yields. We’ll talk about nutrient stratification …

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Tissue Testing – New Technologies Making it More Accessible

Course Description: Tissue testing can be a great tool to provide real-time information on how different nutrients are being transported and assimilated within the crop. Near infra-red (NIR) spectroscopy has been evolved to also test the nutritional status of your plant. Learn more about NIR spectroscopy and how this is being used to make plant tissues …

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Granular Biologicals – How to Incorporate Biostimulants into your Soil Applied Program

Course Description: Strong initiatives toward sustainable agriculture and the increasing awareness of environmental protection have encouraged the demand for biologicals in the agriculture industry. In the past, biological products had only been financially feasible for speciality crops. With advancements in fermentation and formulation chemistry, biologicals are now economically viable for broad acre crops. The next …

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Unlocking the Significance of Molybdenum and Nickel Nutrition

Course Description: Even though plants require Molybdenum (Mo) and Nickel (Ni) in very low quantities, both nutrients play a critical role in plant growth and development. Molybdenum is essential for the synthesis and activation of the nitrate reductase enzyme and is also needed by root nodule bacteria for Nitrogen (N) fixation in legume crops. Nickel …

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Real Time Analytics – How Technology is Changing Soil Testing

Course Description: Market research suggests that existing soil testing technologies are perceived to be too expensive and time consuming to do it properly and growers do not see the value in the results. NIR Scanner Technology is a game-changing diagnostic technology that gives you access to real-time, in-field monitoring of all essential soil nutrients in …

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The Vital Role of Sulphur in Crop Nutrition

Course Description: Sulphur is vital for 2 key amino acids as they play a pivotal role in the protein synthesis in plants. Sulphur is also an integral component of the chlorophyll molecule, which is essential for photosynthesis. Sulphur also plays a critical role in optimizing Nitrogen use efficiency in the plant. In this course we will learn about the role …

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Keeping your Nitrogen in Place – Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers (EEFs)

Course Description: Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers (EEFs) are considered a key tool to achieve optimal Nitrogen use efficiency and help fulfill the 30% emission reduction target set by many sustainability initiatives. Although the technology employed in EEFs is not new, innovative compounds are being used to enhance the efficacy of conventional urease inhibitors and nitrification inhibitors. This …

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The Importance of Manganese in Plant Nutrition

Course Description: Manganese (Mn), despite its critical role in sustaining plant photosynthetic activity, often gets overlooked when designing a fertility program. While a plant only requires a very small quantity of Mn, it plays a vital role in the physiological processes of the plant. This lecture will review the role of Mn in plant nutrition …

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Tissue Testing – Nutritional Checkup for your Plant

Course Description Even soil with sufficient nutrients can produce a deficient crop because of antagonism between different nutrients. Tissue testing can be a great tool to provide real-time information on how different nutrients are being transported and assimilated within the crop. Learn when to take a tissue sample, what the best tissue sampling practices are …

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