by Breanne Baker | Aug 13, 2009 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
The combining of yellow peas is underway in parts of southwest Saskatchewan. In some years, the onset of harvest causes prices to drop. That doesn’t seem to be the case so far this year with peas. In fact, there are reports of yellow pea bids increasing to as high as...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 12, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The European Space Agency has chosen Indian Head, Saskatchewan as one of the three sites over which it is collecting space-borne radar images throughout the 2009 growing season. The other locations are in The Netherlands and Spain. Canada’s RADARSAT-2 satellite is...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 11, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
After years of money-losing hog prices, prices have gone even lower. Livestock economist Brad Marceniuk of the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture reports that North American daily average hog prices have declined by more than 15 per cent over the last two weeks. He...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 10, 2009 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
August 3rd, 2009 many people woke to the crash of hail on their siding and windows of their house, the brights flashes of lighting and in most cases no power. No one anticipated the sights of the damage the next morning. At about one thirty in the morning a belt of...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 10, 2009 | Articles, Precision Farming, Variable Rate Technology
The Get More Bushels Super Crop Plot Tour was held on Wednesday July 29, 2009 at the Wheatland Colony. The trials looked great, the presenters were knowledgeable and informative and the weather was co-operative, what more can you ask for!! All of the representatives...