Given the Trump administration’s fluctuating tariff rules, delivery of new farm equipment has been disrupted in a manner that hasn’t existed since the Second World War.
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U.S. announces 25 per cent additional tariffs on autos
It was unclear after the announcement how the tariff would be applied to the integrated North American auto sector, which builds sub-assemblies for autos in all three countries before they’re added to finished vehicles.
Expensive new equipment or older/cheaper: Which makes more sense?
In late 1978 I bought a new Ford 4x4 pickup truck. The sticker price was under $10,000 and my job at the time was paying me around $25,000 a year. That meant the truck, at about a third of my annual income, was pretty affordable. Using the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator, that truck would[...]
Editor's Rant: In good company
So for weeks I’d been planning to fill this space with a tirade about last month’s cynical-yet-predictable developments in Ottawa on Bill C-234, but when Linamar went public with its plan to buy Bourgault Industries I got distracted by developments closer to home, so to speak. In case you missed the news shortly before Christmas,[...]
30 years in and still on the learning curve
Man I have to start off my 30-something year of writing agricultural stories for this company with a correction. Fortunately I only had to take off one glove to do it. One of my Hutterite reader friends phoned the other night to point out in my December column where I was talking about available agricultural[...]
You asked for it, you’ve got it
I’ve decided to start out the New Year by writing at least one Grainews column that is focused on what readers want, rather than whatever is rattling around inside my head. Based on subscriber feedback and our own marketing material, it seems our readers want advice on everything from dealing with gossip to making easy[...]
Editor's Column
If you happen to drive by our farm in southeast Saskatchewan this summer, you might wonder what sort of landscaping experiment we’re trying on the grass south of the house.
Last month, after my husband filled his sprayer with water from the dugout on the edge of the yard, he accidentally drove by the house with[...]
Editor's Column
This is our harvest issue.
It’s hard for me to focus on harvest. We haven’t had one on our farm since 2010, and earlier this spring it seemed possible that it would be another year and a half before we needed the combine.
After last year’s floods, by late April it was still pretty wet in southeast[...]
Editor's column
It’s spring. That time of warmth and life, when farmwives’ minds turn to thoughts of… “What the heck am I going to send to the field for supper?”
The real
farmwives of Griffin
These days there are several roles for women in agriculture and agribusiness. Women are running their own grain farms, making decisions at agribusiness companies,[...]
Soils and Crops: Wanted- a combine for canola
For me, a highlight of the production year is spending some time running the combine. I’ve done it every year since I was 15. The 2011 harvest was a special time on my son-in-law’s farm at Annaheim. The combination of superior soil, good management and absolute cooperation from Mother Nature brought a once in a[...]
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