Columns & Production Tips

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Reporter's Notebook: Lisa Guenther starts out the new year by giving Grainews readers what they want

By Lisa Guenther February 5, 2016

I’ve decided to start out the New Year by writing at least one Grainews column that is focused on what readers want, rather than whatever is rattling around inside my head. Based on subscriber feedback and our own marketing material, it seems our readers want advice on everything from dealing with gossip to making easy […] Read more

Columns

Editing transactions with AgExpert: Pt. 2

Even the best bookkeepers don't always get it right the first time. Here's how to fix it

By Kelly Airey February 5, 2016

Getting help with the AgExpert bookkeeping has never been easier. FCC Management Software has provided many new avenues to give you support you need. The AgExpert online community is a way for you to communicate with fellow AgExpert users in discussion boards, chat live with FCC support staff and look up answers to almost any question. […] Read more

Columns, Guarding Wealth

Higher interest, rising bond prices

U.S. interest rates are heading up, and bond prices are rising. Here's why security pays

By Andrew Allentuck February 5, 2016

The ominous Chinese greeting, “may you live in interesting times,” has arrived in Canada. We face declining energy prices that are dragging down the entire economy to nearly zero growth. Canadian stocks are accordingly dismal. Our partner to the south, the U.S., has a soaring currency that will inhibit its exports. As a result, the […] Read more

Columns

Backing up your data with AgExpert

Learn how to back up and restore you data files and use other file-saving features

By Kelly Airey February 3, 2016

Creating proper backups of your data file is an important part of bookkeeping procedures when using an accounting (or any) software. I learned the hard way when my computer hard drive crashed one night and I couldn’t recover my data. I knew I should have backed up my work to a second location such as […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Diagnosing and managing acid soils

Acidic soils can restrict plant growth. Learn how to recognize and manage these soils on your farm

By Ross H. McKenzie February 2, 2016

Soils with a pH ranging between 6.0 and 8.0 are suitable for most crops on the Prairies. Soils with a pH range between 6.5 to 7.5 are considered to be near neutral. Soil pH between 6.0 to 5.6, 5.5 to 5.1 and < 5.0 are considered to be moderately acidic, strongly acidic and very strongly […] 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

I think what the consumer wants, and perhaps mostly demands, is a good-quality product, safe and healthy, hopefully tasty, and available at the lowest price possible.

Columns, Hart Attacks

What’s with “consumer demand?”

Both retailers and farm groups are using farm practices as a marketing pitch

By Lee Hart February 1, 2016

I have to admit I am more than a little sceptical of the term “consumer demand.” If I believed every TV commercial, news report, magazine article and corporate pitch talking about consumer demand I doubt I’d be able to leave the house without running into an angry mob rallied in front of some office or […] Read more

Columns

Time to distribute the farm assets

Farm Financial Planner: At age 80, Mary wants to pass her wealth on to her family and a favourite charity

By Andrew Allentuck January 29, 2016

As her 80th birthday approaches, a farm widow we’ll call Mary finds herself in a dilemma. Her husband Bob passed away 10 years ago, leaving substantial life insurance benefits which she used to cover living expenses and farm losses. Mary’s 1,280-acre grain farm is rented to tenants. The farm has broken even with recent high […] Read more

Columns

Your winter grain marketing plan

Watch the futures spread and the cost of carry to decide when to sell your grain

By Brian Wittal January 29, 2016

This winter, you should have time to take stock of your grain inventory, update your cost of production numbers and do some math to determine your true break-even costs. Do you have a marketing plan? Are you using it or reviewing it and making changes accordingly? Do you know your quantity and quality of your […] Read more

Summer Landscape with a field of yellow flowers. Sunset

Canola, Wheat & Chaff

2015 weather affects 2016 agronomy

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Rob Klewchuk January 28, 2016

Now that 2015 is pretty much under our belts, I think we can say, in general, that weather conditions got off to a fairly good start and then turned unusually dry for the balance of the season. And when the rains eventually did come, they came at the wrong time — creating challenging conditions at […] Read more

Daily Network News

Canadian drought conditions improve in March

PMRA renamed as Pesticides Regulatory Directorate

U.S. deputy farm secretary to meet with Mosaic amid high fertilizer prices

Columns

You asked for it, you’ve got it

Editing transactions with AgExpert: Pt. 2

Higher interest, rising bond prices

Backing up your data with AgExpert

Diagnosing and managing acid soils

Editor’s Column: AGMs at Crop Production Week

What’s with “consumer demand?”

Time to distribute the farm assets

Your winter grain marketing plan

2015 weather affects 2016 agronomy

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