by Breanne Baker | Jun 24, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
What a waste. The seeded acreage report released yesterday by Statistics Canada has almost no value. More than 7,500 Saskatchewan farmers were surveyed for the report, but the survey took place from May 25 to June 3. At the time, seeding was 67 per cent complete and...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 23, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Most producers in Saskatchewan are unaware that the province has passed Bill 126 which sets the stage for carbon credit trading. Unfortunately, exactly what that will mean for farmers remains unclear at this point. In some other jurisdictions around the world,...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 22, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
I had a heated discussion yesterday with a producer from east central Saskatchewan. He only got 25 per cent of his crop seeded and he supports the idea of increasing the Unseeded Acreage Payment to $100 an acre. The less than $50 an acre currently available under crop...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 21, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Saskatchewan Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is trying to get legislation passed that would give farmers more control over the Canadian Wheat Board. Goodale was the Minister Responsible for the CWB for many years and he brought in sweeping changes that were meant to make...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 18, 2010 | Articles, Precision Farming, Variable Rate Technology
On June 17th we scouted the Get More Bushels Super Crop Plot and all of the canola varieties are out of the ground! Emergence is spotty in some areas, especially under the tire tracks, due to slightly more compaction. The InVigor varieties are just a bit ahead of the...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 18, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
There is no magic wand that governments can wave to fix all the problems created by the abnormal weather this spring. The AgriRecovery program isn’t much better than all the ad hoc programs governments have invented over the years, because AgriRecovery seems to have...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 17, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
If the weather forecasts are close to being correct, flooding concerns are going to get worse before they get better. The weather gurus could see this big weather system developing for days and they’ve been in agreement that it’s going to drop a lot of rain. It’s rare...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 16, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The National Farmers Union is calling for a full $50 an acre payment on all unseeded acres and an additional $50 an acre top-up payment. The top-up would be limited to 2,000 acres per farm. The NFU is correct when it says that no farmer is going to receive the full...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 15, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
All the unseeded acreage coupled with concerns about overall production levels is shaking up some of the markets. Canola has strengthened to the $9 a bushel range. With canola being short millions of acres, the domestic crushing plants, including the two new ones in...
by Breanne Baker | Jun 14, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
It’s ironic, but some producers in the extremely wet areas may end up with an income tax problem this year. Here’s why. In good years, producers typically defer income on grain sales. A lot of income was deferred into 2010. Many of the inputs for this year will have...
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