Editor's column & Production Tips

Editor’s Column: Why are we still losing children to farm accidents?

By Kari Belanger March 24, 2021

When you become a parent, you realize very quickly that after that little life arrives, yours will never be the same. We invest all of the resources we have at our disposal into our children — love, attention, energy, money … the list goes on and on. And there are so many benefits to raising […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: This is the perfect time to review safety guidelines, tips and training

By Kari Belanger March 15, 2021

As you get this copy of Grainews in your hands, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association will be gearing up for Canadian Agricultural Safety Week (CASW), which runs from March 14 to 20. This year the campaign focus is “Safe and Strong Farms: Lead an AgSafe Canada.” This is the final year of the three-year campaign […] Read more

Ever feel like this? This slide was taken from the end of Mike Jubinville′s presentation.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: How high will grain markets go? It doesn’t matter. The strategy of the day is incremental selling into these rising markets

By Kari Belanger March 5, 2021

From the fall of last year to today, which is Feb. 16, it has been a momentous time for grain markets. And as good as that is, Mike Jubinville, a senior markets analyst for MarketsFarm, stressed time and again during MarketsFarm’s Markets Outlook 2021 webinar last month, that incremental selling into these profitable and rising […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Would you like the good news first, or the good news first?

By Kari Belanger February 22, 2021

I can feel it already — 2021 is going to be a good year. And if the market outlooks for wheat and durum in Western Canada are anything to go by, we’re off to a great start. In mid-January, during MarketsFarm’s webinar — Markets Outlook Summit: 2021 Overview — Bruce Burnett, MarketsFarm’s director of weather […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: All eyes on Argentina

By Kari Belanger February 12, 2021

As I write this column on Jan. 25, the world still doesn’t know if Argentina will get the precipitation it needs for average corn and soybean crop yields or if it will continue to be dry, and the country headed for below-average crop yields. I’ll come back to that in a moment. Let’s take a […] Read more

This temperature from January 2019 is more the norm than what we've been experiencing on the Prairies so far in 2020-2021.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Below-normal temperatures forecast for spring

By Kari Belanger February 2, 2021

Rain in southern Manitoba in January? Many days of above-zero temperatures in Winnipeg from December to the third week of January? What is going on here? I have never experienced such warm temperatures at this time of year. The screengrab of my phone above — taken January 2019 — is more what I’m used to. […] Read more

Table 1: Canadians (2,903 in total) were asked to rate their level of trust towards a number of food system stakeholders on several topics, across all areas, Canadians have the most trust in farmers.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: How to debunk misinformation

By Kari Belanger January 19, 2021

There’s no one better placed to tell the story of food production in Canada than farmers. According to an annual survey on public trust and confidence in Canada’s food system, Canadians have the most trust in farmers when asked to rate trust levels toward a variety of food system stakeholders. The report’s fifth edition, 2020 […] Read more

Michelle Cederberg is a health and productivity expert and professional coach. She gave a virtual presentation at the 2020 Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference last November about her Success-Energy Equation, which is meant to help drive higher levels of success.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: New year, new tools. How to drive your success in 2021

By Kari Belanger January 5, 2021

Happy New Year! And, welcome, 2021! I have never looked forward to a new year more than this one. It’s the end of December and I’m thinking about what’s ahead. I love this time of year because it’s full of potential and good intentions. It’s the time I consider what I want to achieve over […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Take care of your No. 1 resource on the farm — you

By Kari Belanger December 3, 2020

By this time of the year, under normal circumstances, I’ll have travelled to a few fall tradeshows, conferences or events. It’s not all business at these meetings, I look forward to catching up with friends and acquaintances and meeting new people in our industry. I always come away from these events feeling recharged, connected with […] Read more

Many farmers are interested in data collection but are not sure about the return on investment.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Why bother with data collection? Money, says one Saskatchewan farmer

By Kari Belanger November 3, 2020

If you’ve been taking a closer look at precision ag and data collection, you’re not alone. Farmers are focused on what types of data can be collected, how to collect it and what it can be used for on their farms. Trevor Scherman, a Battleford, Sask.-area grain farmer, started collecting data years ago for a […] Read more

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Editor’s column

Editor’s Column: Why are we still losing children to farm accidents?

Editor’s Column: This is the perfect time to review safety guidelines, tips and training

Editor’s Column: How high will grain markets go? It doesn’t matter. The strategy of the day is incremental selling into these rising markets

Editor’s Column: Would you like the good news first, or the good news first?

Editor’s Column: All eyes on Argentina

Editor’s Column: Below-normal temperatures forecast for spring

Editor’s Column: How to debunk misinformation

Editor’s Column: New year, new tools. How to drive your success in 2021

Editor’s Column: Take care of your No. 1 resource on the farm — you

Editor’s Column: Why bother with data collection? Money, says one Saskatchewan farmer

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