by Breanne Baker | Mar 4, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Wheat Board has something called the new-pool pricing option that allows farmers the choice to deliver wheat and durum in the current crop year and still get the new crop year pool price. It sounds like a way to take advantage of the higher prices...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 4, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Know-Risk Updates
CANOLA FUNDAMENTALS Canola contracts on ICE Futures finished last week’s session with strong advances with much of the upward price momentum stimulated by the gains experienced in CBOT soybeans and soy oil. However, futures were trading at lower price levels early...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 3, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
A couple of interesting developments in the world of herbicides have crossed my desk in recent days. In the U.S., Dow AgroSciences has announced a new herbicide tolerant trait system. It will be called the Enlist Weed Control System. Crops with the trait will have...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 2, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Saskatchewan’s realized net farm income has been at an all time high for the past two years. In 2009, it was $1.6 billion and the latest estimate for 2010 is more than $1.7 billion. There are those who point out that adjusted for inflation, the highest net farm income...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 1, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
The Pool Return Outlooks for new crop durum and malting barley are considerably higher than the prices expected for this crop year. The Canadian Wheat Board released its first new crop price projection yesterday. After deducting this year’s freight and handling for...
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