by Breanne Baker | Dec 6, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Agronomic Service, Articles, Kevin Hursh
As grain producers make cropping and marketing decisions for the upcoming growing season, the number one concern continues to be too much moisture. For years, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture has published a stubble soil moisture map around this time. Not this...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 3, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Agronomic Service, Articles, Kevin Hursh
We have friends who spend a good chunk of the winter on Vancouver Island. Here’s a story they emailed us from the Left Coast: Animal lovers are nuts here. Hundreds of wild rabbits at the University in Victoria were captured by a group called EARS, the Earth Animal...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 2, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
It sure isn’t easy to do export business these days. Pulse Canada reports that it’s continuing to work with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and industry players on a trade problem with India. India wants pulse shipments to be 100 per cent free of soil, something...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 1, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Producers are watching grain, oilseed and specialty crop markets with great interest these days as they make marketing decisions as well as cropping decisions for next year. The feed grain complex has been strengthening with better prices for feed barley in the...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 30, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Producers in the United States grew a record amount of canola this year. A report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada lists American canola area at nearly 3.8 million acres. That’s an amazing 84 per cent increase from the previous year. About 87 per cent of the...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 29, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Farmland prices in Saskatchewan continue to increase. The 2009 values have just been released by Statistics Canada. This is the average value of farmland and buildings in each province. The average value for Saskatchewan has increased to $498 an acre, up from $453 in...