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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.
$4,000 per farmer under Farm Business Development Initiative
Through the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, under the Growing Forward program, there’s a Farm Business Development Initiative. In my opinion,...
What’s the carbon footprint of your grocery basket?
I continue to be a skeptic about climate change and whether any change is caused by mankind’s carbon dioxide emissions. But, whether or not you...
BIXS may make cattle ID worthwhile
Many cattle producers have grown disenchanted with the increasing livestock identification and traceability requirements. However, the biggest...
Distillers grains flow into Canada
Distillers grains are playing an ever larger role in livestock ration formulation. It isn’t just distillers grains from local ethanol plants. The...
Cattle ID feedback
Over the past couple of days, I’ve heard from a number of cattle producers questioning the electronic ID program. Some producers say they were...
Information is the key
This time of year we sit back and reflect on how the year went and for 2009 it is just better to forget then remember. But as we move into the 2010...
A grain vac solution
A guy who runs a custom grain vac business gave me some good advice that I’d like to pass along. Check grain bins for spoiled grain on the top and...
Canada and the U.S. go opposite directions on livestock ID
Here in Canada, we’re enhancing our livestock identification programs. Individual animal ID with radio frequency ear tags, age verification, premise...
Yet another farm safety net review
One of the great agricultural pastimes in this country is debate over farm safety nets. We’re at it again. At last week’s meeting in Toronto of...
PRODUCERS ENCOURAGED TO COMMENT ON ROUNDUP READY® ALFALFA
Beginning December 18, 2009 – February 16, 2010 The long-awaited decision on the de-regulation of glyphosate-tolerant (GT) alfalfa (Roundup Ready or...