by Breanne Baker | Oct 13, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
It’s a challenging year to be a grain buyer. Quality is all over the map and a wide array of degrading factors are at play. There’s frost damage, bleaching, sprouting and all sorts of disease issues. Producers have sample bags representing each bin of stored grain and...
by Breanne Baker | Oct 12, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
Saskatchewan’s fruit and vegetable sectors are still accessing their losses, but 2010 has been a difficult year. Fruit producers in central and northern regions of the province are reporting very little production this year and many have lost plants due to flooding....
by Breanne Baker | Oct 8, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Farm Business Management Council on its website www.farmcentre.com has an interesting story on how the Association of Alberta Co-op Seed Cleaning Plants is adopting colour sorting technology. According to the story by Donna Fleury, five Alberta co-op...
by Breanne Baker | Oct 7, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
Are the best grain prices over or are they yet to come? Canola futures prices dropped last week and on top of that most grain companies widened their basis levels. A widening basis is a signal that more grain is being pushed into the system than what buyers can...
by Breanne Baker | Oct 6, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The deadline has passed for putting in an application under the Excess Moisture Program. As the flood of last minute applications is processed, it should give a picture of exactly how many crop acres were unseeded and how many seeded acres were flooded. This $30 an...
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