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 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...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 20, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Reopening the Mexican market for Canadian canaryseed is taking a lot longer than most observers expected. The problem is Mexico’s list of quarantine weed seeds which includes wild buckwheat and stinkweed. Canada and Mexico have been unable to come to terms on how to...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 19, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Tomorrow, August 20, is going to be a big day for Canadian grain markets. Statistics Canada will be coming out with its estimate of field crop production for each of the grains, oilseeds and specialty crops. This is a bigger deal than usual because there’s so much...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 18, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Grain Growers of Canada is making some great suggestions for what should be in the next federal budget. Invest in public research say the Grain Growers. They point out that real government dollars for basic agronomic research have fallen dramatically since 1994....
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