by Breanne Baker | Feb 7, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
What’s happening with the price of farmland? What about cash rental rates? I put those questions recently to Brad Farquhar of Assiniboia Capital Corp. which now owns more than 110,000 acres in Saskatchewan. A number of companies are using investor money to buy land...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 4, 2011 | Articles, Crop Marketing, Farm Management
From RealAgriculture.com With the volatility that is in the marketplace it is very critical to try have a handle on your risk management strategy. There are many ways to do this in terms of people and products. Traditionally farmers had to communicate through brokers...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 4, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has come out with new crop acreage and price forecasts for all the significant grains, oilseeds and specialty crops. On some crops, the Ag Canada analysis is calling for big acreage swings. For canola, the prediction is an acreage...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 3, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
You don’t hear about rabies very often, but cases continue to show up across the country. Each year, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency compiles data on the confirmed cases. For 2010, most of the cases were in Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Ontario had 10 skunks...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 2, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The owners of RJ Game Farm located near Fairlight in southeastern Saskatchewan fear for the health of their 1400 bison and the future of their operation. The fear comes from a neighbouring farm that has moved 300 sheep onto land not far from the bison. Sheep are...
by Breanne Baker | Feb 1, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
For many years, Canada and other nations have invested time and energy into the multilateral negotiations of the World Trade Organization. Despite optimistic proclamations by free trade advocates, the WTO has gone nowhere for years. While the WTO slips into obscurity,...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 31, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
A brand new type of revenue insurance called the Production Cost Solution Program is being offered to grain farmers this spring. If it proves itself, it may decrease the need for Crop Insurance and hail insurance. The company behind the offering is Global Ag Risk...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 28, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
The Pool Return Outlooks for wheat and durum have seen another significant increase. After deducting average Saskatchewan freight and handling, No. 1 CWRS wheat with 12.5 per cent protein is now expected to have a price of $6.94 a bushel. This surpasses the $6.56 a...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 27, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Grain Commission has been holding User Fee Consultations across the country. Sessions were held this week in Saskatoon and Regina. The commission’s services are supposed to be run on a cost recovery basis, but there has been no increase to most of the...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 26, 2011 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
The price of Canadian durum looks particularly bad right now as compared to what American farmers are being paid. Elevators in Montana and North Dakota are posting cash bids as high as $10 a bushel for top grade durum. Here in Saskatchewan, the expected price for high...
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