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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

Funding again available for BMPs

Saskatchewan producers who have completed an Environment Farm Plan can again receive support for Beneficial Management Practices under the...

How much canola is too much?

With disappointing prices for cereal grains, many producers in the prime canola growing regions are struggling with whether to tighten their canola...

Van Raay buys Saskatchewan farmland

As producers, we’re always interested in who is purchasing what farmland and at what price. Here’s an interesting deal from around Conquest, just...

Herbicide Resistance

Herbicide resistance could drop your land value Herbicide resistance is worsening and some observers predict that how the problem is managed will...

Management can become a full time job

Many farms continue to grow in size. Many utilize a significant number of employees. At some point, it makes sense for the owner/manager to step...

BSE class action

It hasn’t received a great deal of media attention, but class action lawsuits against the federal government on the BSE issue continue to inch their...

The benefits of a seed treatment

We have to look back in history to understand how seed treatments came to be. Some of the first seed treatment goes as far back to when the first...

Farm commodity price comparison

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture has a spot on its website where it posts historical farm commodity prices. It’s interesting to compare...