by Breanne Baker | Mar 9, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Alberta has just expanded its Cattle Price Insurance Program to include calves. There were already programs for feeder cattle and fed cattle. Now, cow-calf producers in Alberta can buy price insurance from February to May of each year. The policies expire during the...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 8, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
You can’t have cheap food and expensive oil. It just doesn’t work. The price of food is making worldwide headlines. For hundreds of millions of people who earn only a dollar or two a day, increasing prices for staple foods like grains, pulses, rice and cooking oil is...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 7, 2011 | Articles, Crop Marketing, Farm Management
Here are some more considerations on durum marketing and the expected price difference between the current crop year and the upcoming crop year. Rolling over No. 1, 2 or 3 durum contracted for this crop year into the new crop year is allowed, but it carries a fee...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 4, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Wheat Board has something called the new-pool pricing option that allows farmers the choice to deliver wheat and durum in the current crop year and still get the new crop year pool price. It sounds like a way to take advantage of the higher prices...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 4, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Know-Risk Updates
CANOLA FUNDAMENTALS Canola contracts on ICE Futures finished last week’s session with strong advances with much of the upward price momentum stimulated by the gains experienced in CBOT soybeans and soy oil. However, futures were trading at lower price levels early...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 3, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
A couple of interesting developments in the world of herbicides have crossed my desk in recent days. In the U.S., Dow AgroSciences has announced a new herbicide tolerant trait system. It will be called the Enlist Weed Control System. Crops with the trait will have...
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