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Managing fertilizer’s salt effect in drought
While the forecast shouldn’t entirely dictate how you manage your farm, understanding and performing the best farming practices when adding seed-placed nutrients can help save your yields when the rain fails to fall.
Lentil exports to Europe in trouble
A big trade issue has surfaced involving the European Union, lentils and glyphosate residue. A shipment of organic lentils from Turkey has exceeded...
Sweet program for Ontario farmers
There’s a major agricultural election issue in Ontario that Prairie farmers don’t fully appreciate. The province of Ontario has developed a Risk...
Revolving agriculture ministers
You sometimes forget how lucky we are to farm in a province where agriculture is taken seriously at the political level. You just have to look at...
GM wheat story is wrong
A media story has been circulating that the National Research Council’s Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon plans to develop genetically...
Keeping risks in perspective
With radiation leaking from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan, we have another reason not to believe scientists when they declare that something...
Election promises
The Liberals have some interesting proposals for rural Canada in their election platform that was announced yesterday. Presumably farmers would...
Ontario’s loss is Saskatchewan’s gain
Mary Buhr has been the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Bioresources at the University of Saskatchewan for two years now. Every time I hear...
Cattle price records shattered
Cattle futures on the Chicago market hit record highs yesterday for both feeders and live animals. Reports indicate that U.S. sales of chilled beef...
Price comparison
Grains, oilseeds, specialty crops, cattle and hogs. In almost all cases, the price levels are substantially better than they were a year ago. The...
Mexico and canaryseed
The Mexican market continues to frustrate Canadian canaryseed exporters. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has been decreasing the allowable...