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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.
Agrium sells AWB Ltd to Cargill
Agrium announced that they have reached an agreement to sell the majority of the commodity management business, AWB Limited, to Cargill. The...
Get More Bushels Results
The results are in! Presented at the Grower Technology Conferences and now live on the www.getmorebushels.com website, the results from the 2010 Get...
CWB election aftermath
According to the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association, the Canadian Wheat Board election is flawed. Retired and hobby farmers skew the...
Taking the big view
“He can’t see the forest for all the trees.” It’s an old saying, but it often applies to agriculture. We sometimes make this mistake when we try to...
Good seed tough to find
In many cases, producers could be scrambling to find good seed for next year. Bruce Carriere of Discovery Seeds in Saskatoon says that in his 19...
Feeding the bull market
A number of new factors positive to grain markets have emerged in recent weeks. The grain export ban in Russia is old news, but market analysts are...
Genetically Engineered Sugarbeet Issues
Federal District Judge Jeffrey White issued a preliminary injunction on November 30th ordering the immediate destruction of 256 acres of genetically...
Stuck in the muck
It’s never fun at the time, but now it’s fascinating to look back at the pictures. The 2010 growing season must have set records for farm equipment...
Wet woes continue
As grain producers make cropping and marketing decisions for the upcoming growing season, the number one concern continues to be too much moisture....
Animal welfare stupidity
We have friends who spend a good chunk of the winter on Vancouver Island. Here’s a story they emailed us from the Left Coast: Animal lovers are...