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Keep corn as an option when feeding cattle

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Don’t be afraid of growing corn for silage or grazing. It is cost effective and an excellent winter grazing or feed source…that was the take home message for me from a corn field day near Camrose in central Alberta this week. I spent a couple hours at the Corn Ranches customer appreciation and demo plots […] Read more
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China wants “clean” Canadian canola

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  It will be interesting to see if Canada can produce sufficiently “clean” canola to meet the specifications of Chinese buyers. At the moment, it sounds like exports of Canadian canola seed to China will be stopped as of September 1 (just a couple weeks away) because the dockage is too high. This is a […] Read more
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Low price or good quality?

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People have always shopped for bargains, but I suppose you could credit today’s low-price, big-box store concept that is a magnet for bargain hunters to Sam Walton. His creation, Walmart, spearheaded the trend. As a result, I wonder if he’s changed the way all of us consumers now think. We seem to always concentrate on […] Read more
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Ugly, ugly hay year, pasture problems too

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It is no news to beef and forage producers in many parts of Western Canada that it has been a poor, bad, ugly, frustrating hay year. After what seemed like a dry start to the growing season, it started to rain and it just won’t stop. In talking with my brother-in-law Joe Masi at Kootenay […] Read more
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Getting a back-stage pass

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One of the great things about my job as machinery editor is I sometimes get a chance to go behind the usually-closed doors of research and development shops at the manufacturers. Those workshops are where all the great new features that appear on farm equipment every year are born and evolve from concept to market-ready […] Read more
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Thanks for stopping by

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The last two weeks have been a bit of a blur for those of us involved with the Grainews UTV Challenge. Not only did we organize the event and test nine different machines from seven manufacturers, we put them on display at the Ag in Motion farm show near Saskatoon after the judging was completed. […] Read more
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Important “summer thinking” ahead

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In perhaps what is a window between field spraying and harvest it may be a good time to think about the overall business/financial planning sides of the farm operation, says consultant Art Lange. Lange, a long-time Alberta Agriculture specialist who has been consulting for a dozen years, says there are some key questions producers should […] Read more
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And the big wrap up on AIM day three

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BY LEE HART Nothing impresses a crop protection company expert more when talking to an ag reporter than to demonstrate your knowledge of the agriculture industry. So I got off to amazing start on the third morning at the Ag In Motion farm show in Saskatchewan — as I was looking for the scoop on nitrogen […] Read more
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India tire maker checks out Canadian market

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Coming from a home town with a population of nearly 30 million people in a country where three acres is a common farm size —250 acres is getting into the “Big” farm range — it is no wonder Tarang Srivastava was impressed Tuesday with the seemingly endless wheat and canola fields in the Saskatoon area. “Who […] Read more
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Up to the challenge

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At Grainews we pride ourselves on providing practical production information to our readers, and I think we do a pretty good job of it. This year we had the opportunity provide even more of that practical information on the machinery side of things. With access to the facilities at the new Ag in Motion farm […] Read more

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