by Breanne Baker | Apr 30, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Liberal Party is putting some emphasis on policies for rural Canada. Earlier this week, leader Michael Ignatieff made a commitment to what he calls “Canada’s first National Food Policy.” While it’s heartening to see some attention being paid to agriculture, it’s...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 29, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
Canola seeding recommendations have changed over the years. Conventional wisdom was that you wanted to seed a little later in the spring so that emerging canola would be more likely to escape frost damage. In the 90s, conventional wisdom was challenged. It was found...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 28, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
There’s more and more market information available to grain, oilseed and specialty crop producers, but more information is not necessarily more knowledge. In the latest Pulse Market Report from Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, there’s detailed information on the lentil,...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 27, 2010 | Articles, Grain Prices, Kevin Hursh
According to the Statistics Canada seeding intentions report released yesterday, there are some dramatically different seeding intentions between the three Prairie Provinces. On lentils, the increase in Saskatchewan is pegged at 16 per cent which would increase lentil...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 26, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
A couple weeks ago, many areas of the province were anticipating an early start to seeding. In fact, there could have been a lot more seeding done but producers held off because it was so early. Since then, we’ve had a major rainfall event and now we’re into damp,...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 23, 2010 | Articles, Grain Prices, Kevin Hursh
The seeding intentions report from Statistics Canada comes out on Monday and everyone expects durum acreage to drop dramatically. In fact, the Canadian Wheat Board is expecting a drop of close to 25 per cent. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s even greater than that. But...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 22, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
Odds are you don’t know much about Ochratoxin A, but this mycotoxin has big implications for Canadian cereal grains. Ochratoxin A, also called OTA, is produced by a fungus during grain storage. It has long affected many commodities, but more countries are now...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 21, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
It’s easy to scoff at the import standards of other countries – standards that seem designed to restrict trade. However, as Canadians we need to get our house in order before we criticize too much. On one hand, we’re pushing other countries to develop a Low Level...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 20, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The annual meeting of the Canada Grains Council is underway in Winnipeg and yesterday was devoted to market access issues. Some interesting information came out regarding European market access for Canadian flax. When a German bakery found traces of GM flax in its...
by Breanne Baker | Apr 19, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
So how important is a pre-seed burn off? That question gets asked to me and others in the industry all the time. It can be one of the most important things when it comes to certain weeds and density of weeds. Let’s start with a favourite of most farmers in Alberta,...
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