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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.
Disappointing PRO
The difficult growing season in Western Canada has moved many of the grain markets, but wheat, durum and barley prices remain stubbornly...
Leaf disease robbing your yield?
With the wet soils and large amounts of rain that have swept through Alberta, leaf disease in cereal crops has come to the forefront. Growers have...
Don’t believe Stats Can
What a waste. The seeded acreage report released yesterday by Statistics Canada has almost no value. More than 7,500 Saskatchewan farmers were...
What’s our carbon plan?
Most producers in Saskatchewan are unaware that the province has passed Bill 126 which sets the stage for carbon credit trading. Unfortunately,...
Unseeded acreage debate
I had a heated discussion yesterday with a producer from east central Saskatchewan. He only got 25 per cent of his crop seeded and he supports the...
Producer control of the CWB
Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is trying to get legislation passed that would give farmers more control over the Canadian Wheat Board....
Bring on the Sunshine!
On June 17th we scouted the Get More Bushels Super Crop Plot and all of the canola varieties are out of the ground! Emergence is spotty in some...
Unusual circumstances
There is no magic wand that governments can wave to fix all the problems created by the abnormal weather this spring. The AgriRecovery program isn’t...
Rainfall warnings
If the weather forecasts are close to being correct, flooding concerns are going to get worse before they get better. The weather gurus could see...
Good intent, bad policy
The National Farmers Union is calling for a full $50 an acre payment on all unseeded acres and an additional $50 an acre top-up payment. The top-up...