by Breanne Baker | Aug 27, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
A rising tide is supposed to raise all the ships, but some grain prices have increased a lot more than others. Wheat, durum and barley price expectations took a major jump yesterday in the CWB’s newest Pool Return Outlook. Top quality spring wheat is up by nearly...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 26, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
I spent some time yesterday north of Humboldt looking at the greatly expanded lakes, washed out roads and rushing culverts. Thousands of acres of crop land and pasture have been lost to flooding. Some forty year old houses have water problems in their basements for...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 25, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
With the growing season drawing to a close, the accumulated precipitation maps tell an amazing tale. Since April 1, there has been a record high amount of precipitation over about 40 per cent of the Saskatchewan grain belt. This record spills over into the east...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 24, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
There are major developments in the feed barley market. Drought in Russia and Ukraine and restricted exports from those major feed barley suppliers has meant a significant increase in offshore prices. Suddenly, the export market can compete with what Canadian...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 23, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
This spring and summer has been a trying one in southern Alberta; and the fall looks to be the same way. With all the excess moisture, hail and stress crops in the DynAgra trading area are multi staged and late. So the question arises, “How do I harvest a multi staged...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 23, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The long-anticipated Statistics Canada report on field crop production that came out on Friday has a lot of questionable numbers. As expected, there’s a big increase in Saskatchewan’s summerfallow acres due to all the land too wet to seed. Stat Can pegs summerfallow...
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