by Breanne Baker | May 6, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk function has had more lives than a cat, but its days are now numbered. All the signals coming from the new Conservative majority government indicate that marketing choice will be delivered on both barley and wheat. There’s no use...
by Breanne Baker | May 6, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Canadian Wheat Board
There are lots of thoughts these days on the plans of the Conservative government in regards to any changes with the CWB, if at all. Recently, in searching the web I came across this article by Reuters that I found to be informative on the subject....
by Breanne Baker | May 3, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
In response to the excess moisture in Western Canada this winter and spring, DynAgra has modified their soil testing truck with tracks in place of wheels! Always trying to meet the needs of their customers in new and innovative ways, the tracks allow soil testing to...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 29, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
It has been many years since I first started doing a daily radio commentary. Some of you who read this report on the website or receive the report by email may not realize that this is the text version of a report than runs on various Saskatchewan radio stations....
by Breanne Baker | Apr 28, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
I put about 1,200 kilometers on my truck the past couple days on a road trip from southwest Saskatchewan all the way up to Viking, Alberta and back. Along the way, I passed by Leader, Alsask, Marengo, Kindersley, Rosetown and Swift Current on the Saskatchewan side and...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 27, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Statistics Canada spent a lot of money doing its Seeding Intentions Report released yesterday, but the report has limited value. A total of 12,600 farmers were surveyed at the end of March to come up with the numbers. The report seems to assume that we will suddenly...