by Breanne Baker | Jun 24, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
While some producers in southeastern Saskatchewan, depending upon topography, persistence, equipment and luck were able to seed 20, 40 or even 60 per cent of their farm, there are also producers who didn’t turn a wheel. Not surprisingly, there are increasing calls for...
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 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...
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...
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