by Breanne Baker | Jun 20, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Would you like to go to world’s No. 1 farm equipment show? Agritechnica is held every second year in Hanover, Germany. The next show is the middle of November. I’m working with STEP, the Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership to make the trip more attainable for...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 17, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Durum prices have nowhere to go but up. Bruce Burnett, the director of weather and market surveillance for the Canadian Wheat Board spoke to a farmer meeting yesterday at the Western Canada Farm Progress Show in Regina. Burnett says only about 40 per cent of the North...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 7, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
From Agri-News Farm Credit Canada (FCC) is accepting applications for its Agrispirit fund from now until June 20, 2011. The corporation is donating $1 million in funding to rural community groups across Canada for building projects. Rural groups can receive between...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 3, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Following an announcement to lift the ban on grain exports from Russia beginning July 1st, 2011, the price of wheat futures is seeing a decline. The ban was set in place in August of last year to reduce the risk of a grain shortage following a severe drought. Russia...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 1, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Farmers in southeastern Saskatchewan are in trouble. Only a limited amount of crop has been seeded, time is running out and rain continues to fall. The crop report that came out on May 26 estimated provincial seeding progress at 54 per cent as of May 23, up from just...
by Breanne Baker | May 24, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
I love the seeding monitor I installed this spring. I’ve been threatening to do it for a couple years, but the cost and the hassle of installation had thwarted those plans until this year. I’m sure there are lots of good blockage monitoring systems, but I went with...