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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

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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...

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...

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...