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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.
New pulse seed treatment Trilex AL registered
Trilex AL Seed Treatment Fungicide provides seed and seedling protection from seed and soil borne diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani, Fusarium...
Viterra looks for investments
I saw an email from someone in Australia asking, “What can you tell me about Viterra?” Viterra has acknowledged that it is in discussions to...
Big jump in Saskatchewan farmland values
It isn’t very often that Saskatchewan leads the nation with increasing farmland values. Our farmland has long been the least expensive in Canada, so...
Spring Canola Storage: It’s all in the Numbers
April 27, 2009: Two numbers should be on the minds of producers with canola in their bins -- 8 and 15. "For long term storage canola needs to be...
Where are all the peas coming from?
The Stats Can seeding intentions report released on Friday had lots of surprises. Perhaps the biggest surprise is field peas. Most observers have...
Anything But Cereals
Cereals suck. There are attractive prices available in oilseed crops and in pulse crops, but cereal grains aren’t keeping pace. In the latest Pool...
Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency receives $30 million
Alberta has just announced another $30 million to support its livestock and meat sector. Back in June of last year, Alberta announced a huge $356...
Canada is losing the battle for trade access
Despite efforts on the part of our federal government, the Americans continue to have a lot better agricultural trade access to a number of foreign...
Education tax relief
For most producers, farmland property taxes are going the right direction this year, courtesy of the provincial government addressing the...
Beef industry optimism amid the distress
There’s financial distress in the cattle industry. Producers are exiting the business and the beef breeding herd is dropping. Despite this, cattle...


