by Breanne Baker | Aug 30, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
Here are more pictures of the blunder.
by Breanne Baker | Aug 30, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Livestock prices are a lot better than a year ago. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture publishes a Market Trends report that lists current grain and livestock prices versus the price one year earlier. A1 steers in Saskatchewan are currently listed at 90 cents a...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 27, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
A rising tide is supposed to raise all the ships, but some grain prices have increased a lot more than others. Wheat, durum and barley price expectations took a major jump yesterday in the CWB’s newest Pool Return Outlook. Top quality spring wheat is up by nearly...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 26, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
I spent some time yesterday north of Humboldt looking at the greatly expanded lakes, washed out roads and rushing culverts. Thousands of acres of crop land and pasture have been lost to flooding. Some forty year old houses have water problems in their basements for...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 25, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
With the growing season drawing to a close, the accumulated precipitation maps tell an amazing tale. Since April 1, there has been a record high amount of precipitation over about 40 per cent of the Saskatchewan grain belt. This record spills over into the east...