Editor's column & Production Tips

The women in and around Lacadena, Sask., held their first annual “Life Out Here” conference in February.

Editor’s Column: Living the “Life Out Here”

By Leeann Minogue March 17, 2017

After they enjoyed Connect Ag, a large-scale conference in Saskatoon celebrating women in agriculture, some of the women in the town where I grew up decided to create something similar a little closer to home. And so the latest annual get-together for women was born. This February, the Lacadena Area Women (the LAW, as they […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Is it time to get together?

By Leeann Minogue March 14, 2017

I’ve written in this space several times about the newly formed farm commodity groups that collect levies from us to co-ordinate research and marketing for Prairie crops. We pay levies to organizations for each crop we grow, from canary seed to canola. If this was Iowa and we grew only corn and soybeans, things would […] Read more

When the Weyburn Multiple 4H Club held its annual public speaking contest in January, speech topics ranged from water polo to intercropping.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Our first forays into 4-H

By Leeann Minogue February 22, 2017

I grew up on a farm without ever knowing anything about 4-H. (Don’t call child protective services or Ag Canada. I’ve looked into it, and my parents can’t be prosecuted. Surprisingly, it’s totally legal to let this happen.) Because I grew up with this disadvantage, it didn’t occur to me to enrol my own son […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Making plans for the long term

By Leeann Minogue February 15, 2017

In every issue of Grainews you’ll see at least two or three articles about the benefits of long-term crop rotations. Or, if there aren’t whole articles, there are always a few comments from experts about using four- or even eight-year rotations instead of something like canola, snow, canola, snow. We’ve all heard about the benefits: […] Read more

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Editor’s Column: Bound up by resolutions

By Leeann Minogue February 7, 2017

A few unhappy farmers probably went home from the commodity organizations annual general meetings in Saskatoon this January singing Rolling Stones tunes to themselves. (1) During this year’s Saskatchewan commodity group AGMs, the chairs of two levy-funded commodity groups explained to their members why they’d decided not to take action on contentious resolutions passed at […] Read more

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Editor’s Column: New Internet plan, same problems

By Leeann Minogue January 25, 2017

If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that I live on a farm in southeast Saskatchewan where our Internet access is not exactly stellar. I’ve written in these pages that the Internet has become a basic service — something we absolutely need in rural areas. And so, when I came home from our Christmas holiday […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Seeding is done, no major injuries to report

By Leeann Minogue June 9, 2016

We finished seeding on May 20 this year. I know May 20 isn’t a record-breaking finish, especially this year when so many of you were out in the field early, so I don’t expect any readers to send us a medal. But after a few years of epic breakdowns and colossal floods, we’re happy to […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: The lowdown on rural Internet access

By Leeann Minogue March 9, 2016

Oh the irony. I thought I’d do a little research before I wrote about Internet access in rural Canada. So I turned to the Internet, typed in some likely search terms and… waited. Then I waited some more. I live on a farm in southeast Saskatchewan. Although oil activity has fallen off drastically in the […] Read more

Economist Jeff Rubin spoke at CropSphere in January in Saskatoon.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: What I learned from Jeff Rubin at CropSphere

By Leeann Minogue March 1, 2016

I was looking forward to Jeff Rubin’s keynote lunch presentation at CropSphere in Saskatoon this winter. Back in 2008, Jeff Rubin was the CIBC’s chief economist. That spring, oil was trading at US$118 a barrel, and Rubin predicted that the price would rise to US$225 by 2012. Higher oil prices, he explained, would put pressure […] Read more

These are just some of the reports Saskatchewan farmers could have picked up in January.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: AGMs at Crop Production Week

Plus, five reasons  to go to the AGM 

By Leeann Minogue February 2, 2016

You know it’s time for the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon when the temperature drops down to “wear your warmest coat.” This year’s show had the same format as the past two years, with a trade show on the exhibition grounds on one side of the city, a handful of meetings at the Saskatoon Inn […] Read more

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Editor’s column

Editor’s Column: Living the “Life Out Here”

Editor’s Column: Is it time to get together?

Editor’s Column: Our first forays into 4-H

Editor’s Column: Making plans for the long term

Editor’s Column: Bound up by resolutions

Editor’s Column: New Internet plan, same problems

Editor’s Column: Seeding is done, no major injuries to report

Editor’s Column: The lowdown on rural Internet access

Editor’s Column: What I learned from Jeff Rubin at CropSphere

Editor’s Column: AGMs at Crop Production Week

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