by Breanne Baker | Mar 23, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
How much would more accurate weather forecasts be worth to farmers? Environment Canada is now providing seven-day forecasts, but there’s only human input on the first day of the forecast and usually for only the first 12 hours. The rest of the forecast comes...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 20, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
Grain market analysts are watching weather conditions in a number of different regions of the world. Bruce Burnett, the director of weather and market analysis for the Canadian Wheat Board spoke on Wednesday in Kindersley. Burnett says winter wheat in the southern...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 19, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The balanced Saskatchewan budget is the envy of other provinces. It’s a good budget for farmers. After decades of injustice, the education tax on farmland has finally been addressed in a meaningful and sustainable way. As well, the Ministry of Agriculture budget is...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 18, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
One farm input cost that has come down dramatically from last year is diesel fuel. Allyn Tastad, a partner in the Saskatoon accounting firm of Hounjet Tastad Harpham has analyzed diesel consumption costs for some of his farm clients. Back in 2007, farm diesel averaged...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 17, 2009 | Articles, Precision Farming, Variable Rate Technology
…… We are please to present the new streamlined version of GetMoreBushels.com. We have brought AVAIL, Pod Ceal, Sure Check Soil Testing, FP Genetics and DynAgraVRT together as partners, in a ¼ section test strip environment to compare the products along with many...