by Breanne Baker | Mar 23, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
An organization called the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance has released some interesting projections on ethanol. World ethanol production for 2009 is estimated at 73.9 billion litres. The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance is predicting a 16.2 per cent production...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 22, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
As producers, we’re always interested in who is purchasing what farmland and at what price. Here’s an interesting deal from around Conquest, just west of Outlook. In the last couple months, approximately 85 parcels of land have been purchased by Van Raay Land Inc. and...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 19, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
At its annual meeting being held in San Francisco, the Canola Council of Canada has announced a new agronomy communications program for growers. The council says the plan called Grow Canola 2.015 will enable farmers “to interact with virtual agronomists for immediate,...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 18, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
Herbicide resistance could drop your land value Herbicide resistance is worsening and some observers predict that how the problem is managed will affect the rental value and the purchase price of farmland in future years. It’s estimated that 90 per cent of the kochia...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 17, 2010 | Articles, Farm Data Management
Many farms continue to grow in size. Many utilize a significant number of employees. At some point, it makes sense for the owner/manager to step back from day to day operations and concentrate on management functions. That’s a difficult transition for a lot of...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 16, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
It hasn’t received a great deal of media attention, but class action lawsuits against the federal government on the BSE issue continue to inch their way through the legal system. Actions in Alberta and Saskatchewan have been joined to an Ontario action. In April,...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 15, 2010 | Agronomy, Articles, Crop Production
We have to look back in history to understand how seed treatments came to be. Some of the first seed treatment goes as far back to when the first settlers came to North America. This was just by accident that some of the seed bags fell in the salt water and when they...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 15, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture has a spot on its website where it posts historical farm commodity prices. It’s interesting to compare prices with where they were a year ago. There are a few crops, such as large green lentils, where the price is actually a...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 12, 2010 | Agriculture Industry, Articles
Just when things were starting to get really interesting in the fertilizer takeover game, it looks like it has now all come to an end: Agrium has announced that they will be dropping their pursuit to take over CF Industries. Also meaning the sale of half of the...
by Breanne Baker | Mar 12, 2010 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has gone to monthly reporting for any new cases of BSE. For that reason, a new case of BSE confirmed in an Alberta cow on February 25has just come to light in the past couple days. It’s certainly true that each new case of BSE has...
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