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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.
Motion tabled to deal with competitive imbalance
There have long been complaints about how farmers in other countries, most notably the United States, have access to commercial products not allowed...
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The price slide in Canadian Wheat Board grains has halted in the latest Pool Return Outlook. In fact, wheat values are up by $1 to $10 a tonne and...
Grain transportation has been better, but will that last?
A potential strike is looming at CN Rail and if that happens, grain transportation will be back in the news. Over the past year, grain...
Ottawa has dithered on carbon trading
Canada doesn’t have a national climate change strategy and whether or not you believe in the climate change theories, the lack of a strategy is...
Grab a pitchfork
Agriculture has changed dramatically over the years, but showing purebred cattle is the same hard work it’s always been. When Canadian Western...
Fill out your SPG ballot
There are many organizations to which farmers pay levy dollars, but elections are relatively rare. The directors for commissions and boards are...
Comparing with the Aussies
Australian grain farmer Ross Johns was a speaker in Saskatoon on Wednesday night at an event sponsored by the Farm Leadership Council, APAS and the...
Pork producers need to take control of their industry
The hog industry did some major soul searching at the 32nd annual Pork Industry Symposium held the past couple days in Saskatoon. Presenters had a...
That’s how we get it done in Canada!
Record setting harvest was done in Biggar Saskatchewan, Canada. 160 acres was harvested with 100 combines and several grain trucks in 10 minutes...
No pity for coyotes
The new $20 provincial bounty on coyotes has drawn some adverse reaction, but it isn’t contentious for people who are living with the explosion in...