Columns & Production Tips

Is the wheat basis a fair deal for farmers?

Changing basis levels at local elevators can leave farmers wondering if today’s markets are working fairly or not. Learn more about what you can learn from basis

By Brian Wittal March 2, 2015

With current wheat basis levels, are we being ripped off? This is a question many farmers have asked over the past couple of years, since the demise of the Canadian Wheat Board as a central marketing agency, and even more so this last year when we saw basis levels go to historically wide levels due […] Read more

Columns

Farm reporting has its charms

For Lisa Guenther, farm reporting is more than just a job

By Lisa Guenther February 27, 2015

Back when I was a teenager brimming with that special too-cool-for-you attitude, my friends’ mom tried to impart some basic agricultural knowledge. While chauffeuring us in the summer, she’d quiz us on the crop type in the fields as we whipped by. My friends, who were growing up on a grain farm, were pretty adept […] Read more

Columns

Water quality: Part 2 of a three-part series

There is a lot of talk about water quality issues, but not  all of the commonly-cited information is accurate

By Les Henry February 27, 2015

Note to readers: Before you read this article, I suggest you check back to page 14 of the April 15, 2013 issue of “Grainews.” The headline was “The Truth About Lake Winnipeg.” There will be some overlap with this piece. Water quality There are many aspects to water quality. For irrigation use, salt content is […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, The Dairy Corner

Avoid too much fat for early-lactation cows

By Peter Vitti February 26, 2015

In the last year, there has been a few supply-management incentives for dairy producers to increase milk and milk fat yield in their milk cows. Because nutrients such as energy largely drive dairy performance, many people are increasing dietary energy density by adding different types of edible fats to early lactation diets. Despite being a […] Read more

Lisa Guenther’s grandmother, Mary Guenther, kept on ranching when her husband was killed in an accident in 1959.

Columns

Running a ranch of her own

It’s not new for women to be involved in agriculture. Lisa Guenther’s  grandmother was ranching on her own in Saskatchewan in 1959

By Lisa Guenther February 23, 2015

When my grandmother, Mary Guenther, was 30 years old, her life changed drastically. Mary and her husband, Chuck, were ranching south of Maple Creek, Sask., and raising six kids. In 1959, Chuck’s tractor rolled, killing him, and Mary was widowed. But instead of giving up and moving to town, she kept on ranching. My grandmother […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Three factors when choosing the right canola

By Michael Hutton, Syngenta February 19, 2015

For most growers, canola yield pays the bills. So it’s important to get things right and look beyond last year’s yield data to get a complete picture of a variety. Here are the top three factors I look for when reading my provincial canola guide. First is yield stability. It’s an indication of how well […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

The new wheat lobby

By Leeann Minogue February 19, 2015

I’ve been using this space to write about the farm organizations we’re funding. In this issue: wheat. I’ve already written about the Western Grains Research Foundation, which uses a checkoff of $0.30 per tonne on wheat to fund wheat research. But there are also six new wheat-related groups that have sprung up across the Prairies […] Read more

Columns, Guarding Wealth

Making the best of inflation

Government taxes what it creates. Here are some strategies for making the best of it

By Andrew Allentuck February 18, 2015

Making capital gains is the essence of investing. Yet many gains are nothing of the sort. They are only the illusory repricing of goods and incomes. Government drives inflation, then taxes stocks and bonds, incomes, house prices and even farms that are part of the repricing. If you think that this is unjust, you’re right. […] Read more

Columns

Bachelor farmer seeks retirement plan

Farm Financial Planner: With no spouse and no children to take over the farm, this single farmer needs to decide when he can retire, then create his retirement and inheritance plan

By Andrew Allentuck February 16, 2015

Fred, as we’ll call him, has farmed in central Manitoba for four decades, often adding to farm income by working for his neighbours. Over time, he has sold off parcels of his operation — once 480 acres — and is now down to 160 acres. He uses his land for producing hay, custom grazing and […] Read more

Columns, Crops

A look back and a step up

When the next generation moves home to the farm, it’s a time for change and role re-evaluation

By Sarah Weigum February 12, 2015

I am somewhat late for the season of “year in reviews,” so I thought I’d do one better and review, briefly, my last three years on the farm. In May 2015 it will be four years since I moved back to the farm, so I’ve been through four crop seasons. When I moved back to […] Read more

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Columns

Is the wheat basis a fair deal for farmers?

Farm reporting has its charms

Water quality: Part 2 of a three-part series

Avoid too much fat for early-lactation cows

Running a ranch of her own

Three factors when choosing the right canola

The new wheat lobby

Making the best of inflation

Bachelor farmer seeks retirement plan

A look back and a step up

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