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Marleen Conacher doesn’t sweat the small stuff during harvest. You just do what you have to do and hope everything works out, she says.

Columns

The most important harvest fuel: meals

Getting those meals to the field is a big part of the harvest season

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Harvest can be a hectic, stressful time of year. Will the weather co-operate? Will that canola field yield as well as expected? Will the combine break down at the worst possible time? In the middle of all that action is a much-loved tradition for many farm families — meals in the field. As my friend […] Read more
Landscape featuring a harvested grain field
Columns, Hart Attacks

A bit of something for everyone

Hart Attacks: Who needs the moon? I can pick up the phone and learn lots as I travel across the country

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I’ve got my application in to be a greeter on that new U.S./Russia space station they are planning to build about 440,000 km above the earth. But since they aren’t doing any real hiring until about 2028 I’ve got some time. (I may withdraw my name anyway. Even when I’m on a boat, I always […] Read more
grain bins
Columns, Marketing, Markets

Time to re-evaluate your grain marketing plan

With the crop in the bin, should you be selling now or holding out for higher prices?

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This year’s fall weather was exceptional and most harvesting was done in record time. The biggest surprise I heard from producers is that yields were well above expectations. Many said they figured the yield monitors on their combines were out to lunch when they saw the numbers! This brings a good problem: most producers, even […] Read more
Mental health on the farm: understanding stress
FarmLife, Wheat & Chaff

Mental health on the farm: understanding stress

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According to a 2005 report, almost two-thirds of Canadian farmers are feeling stressed on their farms. One in five farmers describe themselves as being “very stressed” while almost half (45 per cent) describe themselves as being “somewhat stressed.” Stress is all around us. Understanding it and managing it are essential in having healthy minds and […] Read more
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The way they farm on a different continent

Toban Dyck takes an opportunity to travel south to an ag conference in Brazil


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On May 30 of this year, Carlos Vieira contacted me. I didn’t know him then and I almost turned him away. But I didn’t. Call it serendipity. Call it providence. I don’t really care what you call it. The result was an amazing experience my wife and I won’t soon forget. I don’t know why […] Read more
Elaine Froese with Dr. David Kohl.
Columns, FarmLife

Kohl’s top producer tips in times of economic resets

Here’s some ideas to help become an even better farmer

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Minnesota farmer Paul Zimmerman extended a firm handshake and greeting on behalf of his daughter to Dr. David Kohl, professor emeritus from Virginia Tech. Zimmerman’s daughter is a likely successor to their farm. She started her mentorship with Dr. Kohl’s insights in Mankato, Minn. years ago when she wrote notes as a high schooler in […] Read more
Keith Ayres picking up a nice wheat crop with his MF 750 in the 1970s.
Columns, Machinery

Combines I have known, Part 2

In the 60s, Les Henry spent most 
of his combining hours in 
Massey combine cabs

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Harvest seems to be moving along better this year so now may be the time to talk about combines. This is No. 2 in an irregular series about combines I have operated. The first piece went back to the old Oliver 30 pull type that was the first combine I ran and to Cockshutt 132 […] Read more
Stock market chart on LCD screen. Selective focus.
Columns, Guarding Wealth

Global junk

Guarding Wealth: Scorned in the past, it’s become glamorous in a market driven by index funds

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The investment market at times resembles a circus in which the strangest acts sell the most tickets. In the latest bit of acrobatics, sovereign junk bonds issued by national governments are turning in their best performance in years. For example, European sovereign junk returned 100 per cent in the nine years since the mid-2008 beginning […] Read more
Would it really be so bad to have a cool day?
Columns, Hart Attacks, Weather

Would it really be so bad to have a cool day?

Hart Attacks: In the era of climate change, I should be careful about the kind of weather I wish for

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I am really sick of weather forecasters here in Calgary this summer. Finally, this morning one started to make sense — cool, wet days ahead. It doesn’t seem to matter that half of Western Canada is on fire, crops are parched, and ponds and creeks are dry, these forecasters keep telling me here in Calgary […] Read more
Transportation, energy and agriculture
Columns

A new era brings change and challenge

Transportation players are working together after the end of the CWB's single desk

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Greg Northey, industry relations director for Pulse Canada, says grain companies have had to handle more logistical challenges since the end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk’s, which he said was “probably an interesting learning curve.” Northey is unsure how that learning curve affected grain movement in years with big issues. But he thinks […] Read more

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