by Breanne Baker | Jan 21, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Well-known Saskatchewan cattleman Roy Rutledge who has long run the Assiniboia Livestock Auction spoke yesterday in Edmonton to a meeting of Ag Service Boards. Roy has some definite opinions on cattle traceability and what he says makes a lot of sense. We’re...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 20, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Know-Risk Updates
Know-Risk™ Farm Management and DynAgraVRT will be exhibiting at Farm Tech 2011, January 26-28 at the Mayfield Inn and Suites. Come see us in booth 18! Know-Risk™ Farm Management offers growers the knowledge, training, tools and support to make informed...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 20, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Cattle prices have started 2011 with a bang. Sandy Russell of Spring Creek Consulting details the price rise in her latest newsletter. Fed steer prices in Western Canada have increased to around a dollar a pound. Last year at this time they were under 80 cents. Steer...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 19, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
What does last year’s flooding mean to soil nitrogen levels? Viterra did a bunch of soil sampling in the fall to compare flooded versus non-flooded parts of fields and they’ve summarized the data to come up with some conclusions. On fields where a crop was seeded and...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 18, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
What’s your risk tolerance? Given the choice between a deferred delivery contract and a contract with an Act of God clause how much money would you forego to get the Act of God protection? Here’s a specific example. There are new crop canaryseed deferred delivery...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 17, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Here are a few market outlook tidbits from Crop Production Week. Bruce Burnett, the director of weather and market analysis for the Canadian Wheat Board says durum is about to reestablish its traditional premium over spring wheat. Durum has been at a discount the past...
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