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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.
Canadian Grain Commission user fees
The Canadian Grain Commission has been holding User Fee Consultations across the country. Sessions were held this week in Saskatoon and Regina. The...
CWB needs to do better with durum
The price of Canadian durum looks particularly bad right now as compared to what American farmers are being paid. Elevators in Montana and North...
Paradigm shift could be coming
Many analysts say world grain stocks are so low that strong prices are likely for the next two, three or even five years. If world demand doesn’t...
Beware of weather stats
The precipitation maps published by Agriculture Canada are widely used, but here’s a case that makes you wonder about the accuracy. Since the end of...
Retinal scans for cattle ID
Well-known Saskatchewan cattleman Roy Rutledge who has long run the Assiniboia Livestock Auction spoke yesterday in Edmonton to a meeting of Ag...
Know-Risk™ Farm Management at Farm Tech!
Know-Risk™ Farm Management and DynAgraVRT will be exhibiting at Farm Tech 2011, January 26-28 at the Mayfield Inn and Suites. Come see us in...
Amazing cattle prices
Cattle prices have started 2011 with a bang. Sandy Russell of Spring Creek Consulting details the price rise in her latest newsletter. Fed steer...
Flooding means lost N
What does last year’s flooding mean to soil nitrogen levels? Viterra did a bunch of soil sampling in the fall to compare flooded versus non-flooded...
What’s an Act of God clause worth?
What’s your risk tolerance? Given the choice between a deferred delivery contract and a contract with an Act of God clause how much money would you...
Durum, malting barley and canaryseed
Here are a few market outlook tidbits from Crop Production Week. Bruce Burnett, the director of weather and market analysis for the Canadian Wheat...