Columns & Production Tips

Facing up to the truth about climate change

Reporter's Notebook: If we want consumers to accept the judgement of science, we need to return the favour

By Lisa Guenther March 23, 2017

Those pants look terrible on you. Perhaps you’ve experienced that awkward moment when you try to stop a friend from committing a fashion faux pas. If so, you may have agonized how to word your concerns to avoid offense, while still getting your message across. It’s a potentially volatile moment that perfectly captures how I […] Read more

Columns, Markets

Locking your crop prices in early

Some farmers are afraid to take on the risks of pricing too early in the growing season

By Brian Wittal March 22, 2017

In my experience, most farmers will not price grains six months prior to seeding because it seems too risky — they’re concerned about delivery risk. How can you reduce or eliminate delivery risk so that, if prices are profitable early in the year, you’re not afraid to price some or most of your crop and […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Keep your cereal stand one step ahead of wireworms

By Mark Mercier March 21, 2017

Wireworms can quickly weave a destructive path through your cereal stand. Knowing what symptoms to look for can help you identify and take steps to protect your crop from this destructive pest. You might start off by seeing bare patches that can be small, one or two-metre gaps, or larger areas where you have thin […] Read more

Columns, Hart Attacks

Just for the record, I do have three readers

Hart Attacks: And if you need a climate change speaker call Bruno for a good time

By Lee Hart March 17, 2017

My walk down memory lane through the pages of a 1938 Country Guide magazine (in the Feb. 7, 2017 issue of Grainews), and my deep analysis of the climate change/global warming issue (Jan. 24 issue of Grainews), drew some feedback from several readers. I figured this update would show just how this column can change […] Read more

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

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

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

Columns

The power of saying yes to opportunities

Agreeing to try something new, just saying “yes” can bring many benefits — personal and professional

By Toban Dyck March 17, 2017

In March of 2016, I said yes to something I knew very little about, something that would take me off the farm. I was reticent at first. I wanted to remain committed to the farm, and I did not want my working away from the yard leave more work for others. I’ve been at Manitoba […] Read more

I’m ashamed of my cropping plans, but I’m guessing I’m not alone.

Columns, Crops

Crop rotation planning shenanigans

After a couple of seasons on the farm, it’s time to re-consider crop planning strategies 

By Toban Dyck March 15, 2017

The following is about shenanigans. My shenanigans. But it is also about folklore versus science; coffee-shop advice versus better judgment; the devil on your shoulder versus the truth. Specifically, though, this is about crop planning. And by the end of this piece, I hope we both will have learned something. Because, contrary to the familiar […] 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

Columns

A woman’s place… on a modern farm

Toban Dyck turns the keyboard over to his wife Jamie, to describe her role on the farm

By Toban Dyck March 10, 2017

Calgary recently hosted the annual Advancing Women in Agriculture Conference. Women in agriculture is an important topic, and one in which I am wholly unqualified to write about. I would like to introduce you to Jamie Dyck. She and I got married in 2001, outside, in her parents’ backyard, after a three-day deluge. We are in […] Read more

Columns

Control blood pressure with flax

Reporter's Notebook: New research shows that eating ground flaxseed can lower your blood pressure

By Lisa Guenther March 10, 2017

One of the interesting side effects of covering agriculture is that influences my eating habits. I get to hear about the research into food uses and health claims of the crops grown in Western Canada. I eat pulses for the fibre and protein. I use canola oil several times a week. I’m not shy about […] Read more

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Columns

Facing up to the truth about climate change

Locking your crop prices in early

Keep your cereal stand one step ahead of wireworms

Just for the record, I do have three readers

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

The power of saying yes to opportunities

Crop rotation planning shenanigans

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

A woman’s place… on a modern farm

Control blood pressure with flax

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