by Breanne Baker | Jun 18, 2010 | Articles, Precision Farming, Variable Rate Technology
On June 17th we scouted the Get More Bushels Super Crop Plot and all of the canola varieties are out of the ground! Emergence is spotty in some areas, especially under the tire tracks, due to slightly more compaction. The InVigor varieties are just a bit ahead of the...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 18, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
There is no magic wand that governments can wave to fix all the problems created by the abnormal weather this spring. The AgriRecovery program isn’t much better than all the ad hoc programs governments have invented over the years, because AgriRecovery seems to have...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 17, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
If the weather forecasts are close to being correct, flooding concerns are going to get worse before they get better. The weather gurus could see this big weather system developing for days and they’ve been in agreement that it’s going to drop a lot of rain. It’s rare...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 16, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The National Farmers Union is calling for a full $50 an acre payment on all unseeded acres and an additional $50 an acre top-up payment. The top-up would be limited to 2,000 acres per farm. The NFU is correct when it says that no farmer is going to receive the full...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 15, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
All the unseeded acreage coupled with concerns about overall production levels is shaking up some of the markets. Canola has strengthened to the $9 a bushel range. With canola being short millions of acres, the domestic crushing plants, including the two new ones in...