by Breanne Baker | Jun 24, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
With the wet soils and large amounts of rain that have swept through Alberta, leaf disease in cereal crops has come to the forefront. Growers have been bringing barley and wheat in for me to look at and they are full of disease. Tan spot and net blotch have been two...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 24, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
What a waste. The seeded acreage report released yesterday by Statistics Canada has almost no value. More than 7,500 Saskatchewan farmers were surveyed for the report, but the survey took place from May 25 to June 3. At the time, seeding was 67 per cent complete and...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 23, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Most producers in Saskatchewan are unaware that the province has passed Bill 126 which sets the stage for carbon credit trading. Unfortunately, exactly what that will mean for farmers remains unclear at this point. In some other jurisdictions around the world,...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 22, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
I had a heated discussion yesterday with a producer from east central Saskatchewan. He only got 25 per cent of his crop seeded and he supports the idea of increasing the Unseeded Acreage Payment to $100 an acre. The less than $50 an acre currently available under crop...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 21, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is trying to get legislation passed that would give farmers more control over the Canadian Wheat Board. Goodale was the Minister Responsible for the CWB for many years and he brought in sweeping changes that were meant to make...
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