by Breanne Baker | Mar 17, 2010 | Articles, Farm Data Management
Many farms continue to grow in size. Many utilize a significant number of employees. At some point, it makes sense for the owner/manager to step back from day to day operations and concentrate on management functions. That’s a difficult transition for a lot of...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 16, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
It hasn’t received a great deal of media attention, but class action lawsuits against the federal government on the BSE issue continue to inch their way through the legal system. Actions in Alberta and Saskatchewan have been joined to an Ontario action. In April,...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 15, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
We have to look back in history to understand how seed treatments came to be. Some of the first seed treatment goes as far back to when the first settlers came to North America. This was just by accident that some of the seed bags fell in the salt water and when they...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 15, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture has a spot on its website where it posts historical farm commodity prices. It’s interesting to compare prices with where they were a year ago. There are a few crops, such as large green lentils, where the price is actually a...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 12, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Just when things were starting to get really interesting in the fertilizer takeover game, it looks like it has now all come to an end: Agrium has announced that they will be dropping their pursuit to take over CF Industries. Also meaning the sale of half of the...