by Breanne Baker | Apr 29, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
It has been many years since I first started doing a daily radio commentary. Some of you who read this report on the website or receive the report by email may not realize that this is the text version of a report than runs on various Saskatchewan radio stations....
by Breanne Baker | Apr 28, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
I put about 1,200 kilometers on my truck the past couple days on a road trip from southwest Saskatchewan all the way up to Viking, Alberta and back. Along the way, I passed by Leader, Alsask, Marengo, Kindersley, Rosetown and Swift Current on the Saskatchewan side and...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 27, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Statistics Canada spent a lot of money doing its Seeding Intentions Report released yesterday, but the report has limited value. A total of 12,600 farmers were surveyed at the end of March to come up with the numbers. The report seems to assume that we will suddenly...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 26, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Here’s an early season test of weather forecasts. On Monday, the Environment Canada forecast sounded quite favourable. There was 30 to 60 per cent chance of some showers for some of the days later in the week for a number of locations, but it didn’t sound like very...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 21, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Manitoba Canola Growers Association has opened a can of worms by conducting a farmer survey on the voluntary marketing of canola through the Canadian Wheat Board. The arguments for and against the single desk are well known. In this case, just the idea of...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 20, 2011 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The low European tolerance for glyphosate residue on lentils could make marketing the crop more difficult if glyphosate has been used in a pre-harvest application. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers and Pulse Canada have put together a fact sheet to answer some of the most...
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