by Breanne Baker | Jun 9, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan has come up with a novel way to feed and entertain the people attending the APAS midterm meeting in Saskatoon. Most meetings have a banquet with a speaker and/or entertainment in the evening. Instead of a sit-down...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 8, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
It’s going to take awhile to figure out overall crop conditions following the weather of the past few days. There has been substantial precipitation in most southern regions of the grainbelt. Unfortunately, the moisture didn’t go very far north, largely missing the...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 5, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
For early June, crop development is was behind where it should be. The crop report released yesterday by the Ministry of Agriculture says 60 to 80 per cent of Saskatchewan crops are behind normal in development. In the areas I’ve travelled, a lot of crop is yet to...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 4, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
McGill University of Montreal and Becker Underwood of Ames, Iowa have signed a commercial licensing agreement. The agreement grants Becker Underwood exclusive rights to patented nitrogen-fixing technology developed by a team of McGill researchers. The technology...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 3, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had an interesting story on glyphosate prices in a recent edition. The story by Jeffry Tomich says a flood of inexpensive Chinese-made herbicide and deep price cuts by rivals are leading Monsanto to cut profit expectations for Roundup....
by Breanne Baker | Jun 2, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
Cattle industry experts are in general agreement that the long-term outlook is bright for the beef industry. However, the short term outlook is cloudy. At the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association annual meeting in Moose Jaw, a substantial list of long term positives...
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