by Breanne Baker | May 19, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Hog prices are finally back in profitable territory and there’s growing optimism about price prospects for the beef industry. On top of that, hay and feed grain supplies should be plentiful in most regions of the Prairies this year. After the long run of bad years in...
by Breanne Baker | May 18, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
GPS satellite systems are going to be non-operational for the next three days…Just kidding, but I bet I caught your attention. It’s amazing how crop agriculture has come to depend on GPS. In just a few short years, there has been a mass conversion of seeding and...
by Breanne Baker | May 17, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The federal government has introduced an act to change the voters list for Canadian Wheat Board elections. The Grain Growers of Canada, representing a broad cross-section of grain groups, is applauding the proposed changes. Groups such as the National Farmers Union...
by Breanne Baker | May 14, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
The crop report for the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture has seeding progress in the province at only five per cent, way behind the five-year average of 24 per cent. However, the five per cent number is a progress estimate as of Monday, May 10. A lot has changed...
by Breanne Baker | May 12, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
With tight commodity prices, growers are trying to find crops that will return the most to their operation. This sometimes becomes a nightmare because of what was applied the previous year’s crop. We need to be thinking further ahead than we ever had to in the...
by Breanne Baker | May 12, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Saskatchewan Pulse Growers is offering five undergraduate scholarships for first year students enrolled in a degree program at the University of Saskatchewan. Each scholarship is $5,000 so this is some serious money for a university student. A parent of the applicant...
by Breanne Baker | May 11, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Environmental Working Group in the U.S. has released the latest update of its farm subsidy database. The new database tracks $245 billion in American farm payments from 1995 to 2009. The largest farm operations receive the lion’s share of payments. Since 1995,...
by Breanne Baker | May 7, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
After three years of disappointment, hog prices are back into profitable territory. Unfortunately, the hog industry in Saskatchewan has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. Brad Marceniuk, a livestock economist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture...
by Breanne Baker | May 6, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Namaka Enterprises, a large feedlot operation from southern Alberta has reportedly announced its intentions to set up a Saskatchewan operation southeast of Outlook in the southern end of the South Saskatchewan Irrigation District. Ultimately, the plan is for a 36,000...
by Breanne Baker | May 3, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The last few weeks have seen two massive precipitation events. For the time being, drought fears have been largely eliminated on the western Prairies. In some eastern regions of Saskatchewan, excess moisture is now a problem. The prospects for pasture and hay are...
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