by Breanne Baker | Mar 16, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has come out with its latest market forecast for grains, oilseeds and specialty crops. The forecast includes an estimate of this year’s seeded acreage and their numbers generally look quite plausible, assuming there isn’t a major...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 15, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Statistics Canada has released a pile of data and estimates related to agriculture. Not surprisingly, the stats show that large farms are accounting for an increasing share of production. In 2008, 65 per cent of farms were in the small category with gross revenues of...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 11, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Saskatchewan Watershed Authority has delivered another update on the flood outlook for this spring, but it notes that the forecast is based on limited data and should only be used as a general guideline for large areas. I had always suffered under the illusion...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 10, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
You’ve maybe read it in a daily paper or seen it on the television news. The price of beer is going to increase because the price of malting barley is higher. Consumers are being advised to brace for the shock. Oh, the horror of it all. Let’s put this into a bit of...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 9, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Alberta has just expanded its Cattle Price Insurance Program to include calves. There were already programs for feeder cattle and fed cattle. Now, cow-calf producers in Alberta can buy price insurance from February to May of each year. The policies expire during the...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 8, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
You can’t have cheap food and expensive oil. It just doesn’t work. The price of food is making worldwide headlines. For hundreds of millions of people who earn only a dollar or two a day, increasing prices for staple foods like grains, pulses, rice and cooking oil is...
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