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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.

Managing fertilizer’s salt effect in drought

Market access is a full time job

It sure isn’t easy to do export business these days. Pulse Canada reports that it’s continuing to work with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and...

Market watching

Producers are watching grain, oilseed and specialty crop markets with great interest these days as they make marketing decisions as well as cropping...

American canola acreage booms

Producers in the United States grew a record amount of canola this year. A report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada lists American canola area...

Farmland price info

Farmland prices in Saskatchewan continue to increase. The 2009 values have just been released by Statistics Canada. This is the average value of...

Good prices for low quality

The November Pool Return Outlook was released yesterday. Wheat values were mostly down a bit, durum was up a little bit, while the malting barley...

Record farm income in Saskatchewan

The latest farm income numbers from Statistics Canada show that 2008 and 2009 were record high years for farm income in Saskatchewan. In both years,...

Dairy farming in perspective

The George Morris Centre, an agricultural think tank located at Guelph, has just released a great paper on Canada’s supply management system for the...

Goat meat is in demand

Over the 40 year history of Canadian Western Agribition, the show has served as a Canadian launch pad for new livestock species. Many have gone by...

Record high prices for bison meat

The bison industry has seen a lot of changes over the years. The 27th Annual Convention of the Canadian Bison Association is underway in Regina. A...