by Breanne Baker | May 12, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
With tight commodity prices, growers are trying to find crops that will return the most to their operation. This sometimes becomes a nightmare because of what was applied the previous year’s crop. We need to be thinking further ahead than we ever had to in the...
by Breanne Baker | May 12, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Saskatchewan Pulse Growers is offering five undergraduate scholarships for first year students enrolled in a degree program at the University of Saskatchewan. Each scholarship is $5,000 so this is some serious money for a university student. A parent of the applicant...
by Breanne Baker | May 11, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Environmental Working Group in the U.S. has released the latest update of its farm subsidy database. The new database tracks $245 billion in American farm payments from 1995 to 2009. The largest farm operations receive the lion’s share of payments. Since 1995,...
by Breanne Baker | May 7, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
After three years of disappointment, hog prices are back into profitable territory. Unfortunately, the hog industry in Saskatchewan has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. Brad Marceniuk, a livestock economist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture...
by Breanne Baker | May 6, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Namaka Enterprises, a large feedlot operation from southern Alberta has reportedly announced its intentions to set up a Saskatchewan operation southeast of Outlook in the southern end of the South Saskatchewan Irrigation District. Ultimately, the plan is for a 36,000...
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