by Breanne Baker | Dec 10, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
Alliance Grain Traders has announced the purchase of Parent Seed Farms of Manitoba. Parent is big in dry edible beans – navy beans, pinto beans, black beans and coloured beans. The two processing plants are located near St. Joseph, about a hundred kilometers south of...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 9, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
For many months, mainstream analysts have been predicting the Canadian dollar will go to par with the American greenback. Some are even predicting we’ll go above par. David Drozd, with Ag-Chieve in Manitoba has been taking a contrarian view. Drozd does technical...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 8, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
Fertilizer and fuel prices have come down dramatically, but farm machinery costs remain very high. The Statistics and Data Development Unit of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development publishes average farm input prices for Alberta for selected commodities. The...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 7, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The November estimate of field crop production from Statistics Canada was released on Friday. Here are some of the interesting numbers. The average canola yield in Saskatchewan this year is pegged at 34.8 bushels an acre. The yield difference seems to keep widening...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 4, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The mainstream media has been slow to pick up on climategate, but now the scandal is getting widespread coverage. Email correspondence that was never meant to be public has cast doubt over the whole science of climate change. There’s talk of lost data and data that...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 3, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Wheat Board’s partnership with WeatherBug has evolved into a service that will be very useful to producers. This private weather network, linking on-farm monitoring stations was launched two years ago. I’ve checked it out on-line a couple of times and I...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 2, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association has released survey results showing strong support for alternative fuels. I’m sometimes skeptical about how survey questions are presented and how the results are interpreted, but in this case, the question wording has been...
by Breanne Baker | Dec 1, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
Multi-lateral trade talks through the WTO appear to be going nowhere, but progress on a bilateral deal between Canada and the European Union has so far exceeded expectations. The chief trade negotiator for Canada is Steve Verheul. He points out that the EU is Canada’s...
by Breanne Baker | Nov 30, 2009 | Articles, Kevin Hursh
There have long been complaints about how farmers in other countries, most notably the United States, have access to commercial products not allowed in Canada. Some of those disallowed products are used on food commodities that are imported into Canada. Ontario M.P....
by Breanne Baker | Nov 27, 2009 | Agriculture Industry, Articles, Kevin Hursh
The price slide in Canadian Wheat Board grains has halted in the latest Pool Return Outlook. In fact, wheat values are up by $1 to $10 a tonne and feed barley values are up by $7 a tonne. Durum and malting barley are unchanged from last month. No. 1 spring wheat with...
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