
Columns
Grain marketing, Mother Nature and Murphy’s Law
Some years anything that can go wrong, will. Avoid further trouble with these three marketing strategies

Time to remember

You can’t have one without the other
Farmers need plant breeders to keep developing new varieties and breeders need farmers to buy their seed

Diary of a wheat crop
After a successful 2014 grain harvest at his Dundurn farm, Les Henry is grateful

We swathed our wheat. Would we do it again?
Toban Dyck’s crop went from “the crop that could have been” to… well, the crop it was
Farm financial planning: Trusts can increase family trust
Trust avoids family infighting for retiring Manitoba couple aiming to keep their land in the family, but also keep their kids still talking to each other

2014 was a bad year for fusarium
Farmers need better data to make good decisions around spraying for fusarium

Changing times, yet again for grain prices
With risks of global change and bad harvest weather, farmers can take action

Wild weather and loose wheels
For an ag reporter driving on Prairie roads to get to the story, sometimes a little bit of on-the-spot help from strangers is more than welcome

The high cost of buying stocks and bonds in a boom market
With financial prices rising, prudent investors need to be cautious in the marketplace