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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.
Family meeting time?
Succession planning. The experts say it’s never too early to start. Unfortunately, it’s a topic that many farm families find difficult to tackle....
Food safety misconceptions
As everyone gathers for family meals over the holidays, there will be lots of discussions about food and food safety. Unfortunately, misconceptions...
Intercropping looks promising
Many producers have tried intercropping peas and canola over the years, but as seeding technology advances, this may become more practical. There...
Crop Production Services (Agrium) continues buy out of independents….who is NEXT?
Agrium has been busy this summer and fall acquiring independent dealers from across Western Canada. Ross Agri (central AB), Heartland Agro...
Limited snow cover
There sure isn’t much snow cover anywhere in Saskatchewan. Since the middle of November, except for a few minor exceptions, precipitation has been...
PROs have dropped a long ways
The Pool Return Outlooks for wheat and durum have both dropped a bit more. The drop on wheat is as high as $6 a tonne. The drop on durum is $2 to $3...
Impressive market shares
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has published a statistical overview of the Canadian pulse and specialty crop industries. On a number of...
Alliance buys Finora
Alliance Grain Traders, known by many as Saskcan Pulse, has announced another major acquisition – the second in a week. The latest, announced...
Canola and lentils are the bright lights
As producers consider their cropping options for next year, two crops are generating the most attention – canola and lentils. Despite the Chinese...
CashPlus was a good deal for 08-09
The Canadian Malting Industry Association is saying the top-up payment for the CashPlus program should be $25 a tonne. The Canadian Wheat Board says...