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...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 14, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Alberta farmers are finally growing some lentils. The numbers are contained in the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Report which has just been published. In 2010, Alberta had 140,000 acres of lentils, up from only 45,000 acres in 2009. In the...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 12, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Market analysts are expecting Canadian pea and lentil acreage to drop this year. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers had market outlook panels yesterday at Pulse Days, held as part of Crop Production Week in Saskatoon. For yellow peas, the analysts noted that some new crop...