Columns & Production Tips

Editor’s Column: Searching for the truth

By Leeann Minogue January 25, 2019

When I read an article in a newspaper or a magazine, the first thing I do is take a look at the byline. I wonder if I’ve read the writer’s work before. If there’s a bio, I look to see if they’ve come to the issue with an obvious agenda that’s going to put a […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Avoiding herbicide mis-use

Herbicides have made it easier to feed the world, but beware of residuals and improper use

By Ieuan Evans January 23, 2019

Herbicides are an integral and essential aspect of modern productive farming. Without our effective and efficient herbicides our dollar costs for food production would be double or triple what we now pay. Can your even visualize hand weeding agricultural and horticultural crops? As a youth I earned pocket money hand hoeing turnips and beets and […] Read more

Columns

Re-think what you thought, Part 2

Four more common financial investing myths, de-bunked by Herman VanGenderen

By Herman VanGenderen January 22, 2019

This article is a continuation of my previous column, and a summary of the themes of my 30- to 45-minute presentation. Most stock investing perceptions are actually misperceptions. I outlined five common misperceptions in the previous article. Here are another four. 1. You have to sell to make a profit The three companies I have […] Read more

Barbed wire fence through the tall golden grass fields

Columns

Farm Financial Planner: Sell the farm or lease the land?

Sell the place and keep the cash, or hold on to your family legacy?

By Andrew Allentuck January 21, 2019

In south-central Manitoba, a couple we’ll call Perry, 50, and Lucy, 45, are feeling pressure to operate the family grain farm. Perry’s parents recently passed away and the 480-acre farm is Perry and Lucy’s. If they go back to the farm from their off-farm careers, they will give up a combined annual off-farm income totaling […] Read more

Columns

Toban Dyck: Putting the hard questions on the table

Table talk topics at Farm Forum hit close to home for conference participants

By Toban Dyck January 21, 2019

One of my talents as an adolescent was being able to sleep until noon. It was, at the time, the only real talent I felt confident about. Fast forward to now. I’m 38 and I’m getting up at 6 a.m. to attend a table talk on succession planning at the Farm Forum event in Calgary. […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Finally, soil moisture measuring meets new tech

A map of soil moisture at freeze-up can give you a good indication of your yield potential

By Les Henry January 15, 2019

Water in the bank is a certainty; rainfall is a probability. Much of what we do in farming is based on probabilities — a game of chance. What are the chances we will get timely rains to keep a crop from withering away to a low yield? What are the chances we will suffer disease […] Read more

Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Copper deficiencies can reduce wheat yields

Q & A with Nutrien Ag Solutions

By Lyle Cowell January 14, 2019

Q: How do I know if I have copper-deficient soils? A: Copper is the micronutrient most often found deficient in Western Canada. In a nutshell, copper deficiency is most often found in deep sandy soils and peat soils, and wheat is the most sensitive crop. Soil tests are a good tool to predict potential copper […] Read more

25 years of discussion seems to have failed.

Columns, Hart Attacks

I’m confused about carbon credits

There’s always a lot of talk around GHG, but the action isn’t obvious

By Lee Hart January 14, 2019

I don’t know about anyone else but I have great confusion over anything to do with carbon credits and national/international Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction programs. Is there anything real here? Is there anything really happening? I must admit anytime I see something related to carbon credits on an ag conference agenda immediately my head goes […] Read more

A view from outside of the kitchen along the mess tent.

Columns

Lesson 3: From tree planting to farming

When you get your own feet under you, that’s the time to pull others up

By Sarah Hoffmann January 11, 2019

Over my last two columns relating my experience as a cook at a tree planting camp to my life as a farmer, I explored two aspects of tree planting that seem to be an opposite ends of the balance beam: the immediacy of the task at hand and the need for rest. Through my work […] Read more

Should you sell your grain now, or wait? Market dynamics can change quickly.

Columns, Marketing

Grain markets in the new year

A post-harvest review of market movements, and pre-pricing your 2019 crop

By Brian Wittal January 10, 2019

Some key changes pre-Christmas changed the tone of the grain markets. Dry weather in India started to impact pulse markets, pushing Canadian pulse values higher on concerns that India’s crop will not be sufficient to meet their needs. Buyers are trying to secure product before the situation gets worse and prices run even higher. Australia’s […] Read more

New Quebec ag minister named in shuffle

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures fall on expectations of US agriculture secretary announcement

Agrichemicals firm Corteva explores splitting seed and pesticide units, WSJ reports

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New Quebec ag minister named in shuffle

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures fall on expectations of US agriculture secretary announcement

Agrichemicals firm Corteva explores splitting seed and pesticide units, WSJ reports

Columns

Editor’s Column: Searching for the truth

Avoiding herbicide mis-use

Re-think what you thought, Part 2

Farm Financial Planner: Sell the farm or lease the land?

Toban Dyck: Putting the hard questions on the table

Finally, soil moisture measuring meets new tech

Copper deficiencies can reduce wheat yields

I’m confused about carbon credits

Lesson 3: From tree planting to farming

Grain markets in the new year

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