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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.
How to Swath with Variable Stages
For growers faced with uneven maturity within fields, it may not be possible to swath all the crop in the 50-60% seed colour change window. In...
Bad news in latest PRO
The Pool Return Outlooks for wheat, durum and malting barley have all taken nasty tumbles. The August PRO from the Canadian Wheat Board is down 50...
Canola crush margins will be squeezed
Greg Colman, an equity analyst with Wellington West Capital Markets Inc. has produced a report which shows how the Canadian supply of canola is...
Counterintuitive marketing
Trying to outguess grain markets or any markets for that matter can lead to frustration. As farmers we sometimes make marketing decisions that are...
Up to $750 for cattle producers
There’s a new funding program for cattle producers who are purchasing certain kinds of equipment. To be eligible for the funding, a producer must...
Saskatchewan’s crop mix
When you examine the mix of crops in Saskatchewan area by area, there are a number of surprises. The 2008 stats for individual crop districts are...
Calf price considerations
As we move towards this fall’s run of calves going to market, there are a number of factors at play. Slaughter steer and heifer prices are a lot...
Wanted: Politicians with guts
It would be interesting to know what percentage of the population still subscribes to the global warming theory. Following yesterday’s commentary, I...
Variable Stages Benefit from Pod Sealant?
With the variable stages in this year’s canola crop, questions about the benefits of applying a pod sealant are surfacing. Pod sealants are...
Pick your climate theory
While the greenhouse gas / global warming theory remains the most widely held view in the scientific community, there’s a growing body of credible...