by Breanne Baker | Aug 5, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
As usual, initial payments for wheat, durum and barley are starting the new crop year at ugly levels. The government guaranteed initial payments on CWB grains have been set at less than 70 per cent of the total expected price. However, that’s 70 per cent of the total...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 4, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Over the long weekend, I toured through some of the area of west central Saskatchewan affected by drought early in the growing season. My tour included areas around Eston, Brock, Kindersley, Glidden and Eatonia. There’s a much bigger area affected and there’s a great...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 30, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
August is quickly approaching and it will be a frost watch month. In the most frost prone regions of the Saskatchewan grain belt, the first frost is typically by the end of August. For other locations, the average is some time during the first week of September. Areas...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 28, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The latest edition of the Pulse Market Report has just been released by Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. I enjoy market analysis and I applaud this effort by Sask. Pulse Growers. However, I get frustrated when market analysts ask more questions than they answer. In this...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 24, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Wheat Board has released new Pool Return Outlooks for both the current crop year and the upcoming crop year. Price projections didn’t change very much for this crop year, but there was a significant drop for the new crop year. Wheat values are down $12 to...
by Breanne Baker | Jul 21, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
To which view of the future of agriculture do you subscribe? View number one: the growing world population and increasing prosperity will lead to a long-term uptrend in agricultural prices. View number two: on average, production will exceed demand and low prices will...
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