by Breanne Baker | Jan 11, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Don’t underestimate the competition for acres that’s going to occur. That advice came yesterday from Marlene Boersch of Mercantile Consulting Venture as she presented a market outlook for canaryseed at Crop Production Week in Saskatoon. Today, Marlene is on the market...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 10, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Forgive the corny analogy, but in many ways, Crop Production Week and the corresponding Western Canadian Crop Production Show can be likened to a baseball game. Thousands of producers are flocking to the trade show and to the meetings in Saskatoon this week just like...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 7, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Agronomic Service, Articles, Kevin Hursh
One of the highlights of Crop Production Week will be hearing Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. out of Topeka, Kansas. His weather forecasts have gained quite a following in Western Canada. On Monday afternoon at the SaskFlax meeting, Drew Lerner will address the...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 6, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The choice of Greg Marshall as the new head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders is going to have some interesting ramifications for Greg Marshall, the president of APAS, the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan. In this football crazy province, the...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 5, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Hopefully, we’ll never have to put this to the test, but here’s an interesting element of the Canadian plan to deal with a foreign animal disease outbreak. Most people don’t realize it, but part of Canada’s livestock traceability system involves the West Hawk Lake...
by Breanne Baker | Jan 4, 2011 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Crop Production Week and the Western Canadian Crop Production Show are next week in Saskatoon. One of the overriding themes is going to be crop quality. The Pulse Growers have a session devoted to understanding lentil quality. Lentil grading has been a nightmare. At...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 31, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Australian Farm Institute has asked me to write a short article on the pros and cons associated with GM canola. Whether or not to grow GM canola is still a big issue in Australia, whereas in Canada, the genie has been out of the bottle for a long time. In...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 30, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Well over a third of the American corn crop is used to make ethanol. Without all this corn consumed for ethanol production, there’s no doubt that grain stocks would be higher and all grain prices would be lower. South of the border, there’s a public relations war...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 29, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Know-Risk Updates
Ever thought about using options on your farm to manage price risk? With more and more price volatility in the commodity market place, farms should be looking at and exploring the different risk management and crop marketing tools available to them. “We have seen...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 29, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
It’s rare to see financial optimism in both the grain and cattle sectors. It would seem like a great time to buy more land or buy more cows, except that when everyone else has the same mindset, it becomes more expensive and therefore more risky. The famous quote by...
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