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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.
Perceptions of big
What do you consider big when it comes to a grain operation? What about cattle? What’s a big cow-calf operation? Consider a grain farm that grows 30...
Limited profits for cow-calf producers
With the fall calf run underway, cow-calf producers are rejoicing over the dramatic improvement in prices. However, there is still very little...
Wish list: more bin space
It would be interesting to see a study on this, but I’d bet that farmers in Western Canada have a much bigger investment in grain storage than...
Canpotex vs CWB
The potential takeover of Potash Corp is a huge political issue. One aspect of that debate involves Canpotex, the marketing arm for all three of the...
Grading nightmare
The Canola Council has sent out a Canola Watch report on grading factors. No. 1 canola may contain up to 2 per cent distinctly green seeds and a...
AgriStability advisors
It has been well publicized that Saskatchewan has taken over the administration of the AgriStability program for producers in the province. The...
Promoting Canadian beef
Canadian beef is subject to country of origin labeling laws in the U.S. However, people who have shopped in American supermarkets often say that...
Abnormal marketing year
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has just released market outlooks for grains and oilseeds as well as pulse and special crops. A lot of the...
Nitrogen Use Efficiencies – what’s left for nutrients
As we grind through one of the toughest harvests in a while there seems to be one thing that keeps coming up and the question is “what is left for...
Tasha Schmaltz on AVAIL
Tasha Schmaltz with DynAgra believes AVAIL is a fit for his customers. By enhancing the phosphate they put down in the season, he feels more...