by Breanne Baker | Dec 11, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
One of the best speakers I’ve heard in a long time was yesterday at the Farm Animal Council of Saskatchewan meeting in Saskatoon. While FACS is dedicated to responsible farm animal care, the closing speaker at their conference was Bruce Vincent, a third generation...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 10, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
Alliance Grain Traders has announced the purchase of Parent Seed Farms of Manitoba. Parent is big in dry edible beans – navy beans, pinto beans, black beans and coloured beans. The two processing plants are located near St. Joseph, about a hundred kilometers south of...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 9, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
For many months, mainstream analysts have been predicting the Canadian dollar will go to par with the American greenback. Some are even predicting we’ll go above par. David Drozd, with Ag-Chieve in Manitoba has been taking a contrarian view. Drozd does technical...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 8, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Fertilizer and fuel prices have come down dramatically, but farm machinery costs remain very high. The Statistics and Data Development Unit of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development publishes average farm input prices for Alberta for selected commodities. The...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 7, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The November estimate of field crop production from Statistics Canada was released on Friday. Here are some of the interesting numbers. The average canola yield in Saskatchewan this year is pegged at 34.8 bushels an acre. The yield difference seems to keep widening...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 4, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The mainstream media has been slow to pick up on climategate, but now the scandal is getting widespread coverage. Email correspondence that was never meant to be public has cast doubt over the whole science of climate change. There’s talk of lost data and data that...
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