by Breanne Baker | Sep 1, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
It could be considered an inadvertent intercropping experiment. Over the years, a number of farmers have tried growing peas with canola. This year, I have a 170 acre field that’s a mixture of large green lentils and oriental mustard. It wasn’t intentional. By the time...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 31, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
There is a wide range in quality over the limited amount of crop that’s been harvested. Within the lentil crop, a lot of disease and sprouting is evident, although there has also been some good quality harvested. With the weather this week, you have to think the...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 30, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Fertilizer Prices
The phosphate market is going to get very competitive in the next 12 months. There are three new plants coming on stream by the end of 2011. Kailin’s 600,000st per year DAP plant located in South China will be running by the end of 2010. Ma-aden’s plant in Saudi...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 30, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
In an attempt to spray a wet field, a Saskatchewan grower unfortunately got stuck. To fix the situation, a track hoe was brought to pull the sprayer out. Without much success, it was decided to wait until the following day to try again. The next morning, ready to...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 30, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
Here are more pictures of the blunder.
by Breanne Baker | Aug 30, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Livestock prices are a lot better than a year ago. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture publishes a Market Trends report that lists current grain and livestock prices versus the price one year earlier. A1 steers in Saskatchewan are currently listed at 90 cents a...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 27, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
A rising tide is supposed to raise all the ships, but some grain prices have increased a lot more than others. Wheat, durum and barley price expectations took a major jump yesterday in the CWB’s newest Pool Return Outlook. Top quality spring wheat is up by nearly...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 26, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
I spent some time yesterday north of Humboldt looking at the greatly expanded lakes, washed out roads and rushing culverts. Thousands of acres of crop land and pasture have been lost to flooding. Some forty year old houses have water problems in their basements for...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 25, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
With the growing season drawing to a close, the accumulated precipitation maps tell an amazing tale. Since April 1, there has been a record high amount of precipitation over about 40 per cent of the Saskatchewan grain belt. This record spills over into the east...
by Breanne Baker | Aug 24, 2010 | Articles, Farm Management, Grain Prices
There are major developments in the feed barley market. Drought in Russia and Ukraine and restricted exports from those major feed barley suppliers has meant a significant increase in offshore prices. Suddenly, the export market can compete with what Canadian...
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