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Building new farm leadership

Farmers need a strong voice, but getting new farmers into leadership roles is easier said than done

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Farmers need a stronger voice in the supply chain to balance the commercial system. That’s what Dr. Brian Oleson told delegates at Fields on Wheels in December. Oleson specializes in co-operatives and marketing at the University of Manitoba. Oleson saw the Canadian Wheat Board as the farmer representative in the supply chain, he told delegates. […] Read more
How you’re funding the WGRF
Cereals, Wheat & Chaff

How you’re funding the WGRF

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In the last issue of Grainews we ran a story about farm research levies. That was just the first in a series of articles about the organizations representing Prairie farmers. In this column: the Western Grains Research Foundation. You’re funding that. Your money gets to the WGRF in two ways. We’ll start with your levies. […] Read more
Bags Of Money On A Farm Field
Columns, Crops

Building a crop marketing strategy for your farm

Understanding Market Bulls and Bears: Use market information and your own numbers to build 
a marketing strategy that works

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The more meetings you go to and the more speakers you listen to, the more market influencing factors you learn about which just continues to make “trying to figure the markets out” more confusing. Learning and gathering information is critical to helping you be successful in marketing your crops, but don’t let it overwhelm you […] Read more
hemp plants
Columns, Crops

Farm reporting ain’t easy

Reporter's Notebook: More information about hemp to add to what appeared in a previous article, 
and a trip to a conference in Manitoba to learn more about grain transportation

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There is a whiff of shame that wafts from journalists after they’ve found out corrections are needed to a published piece. Despite our best intentions, fact-checking processes, and diligent editors, mistakes sometimes slip by us. Take an article I wrote on growing hemp a few months ago. I spoke to, and referenced material from, several […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

Ask yourself now. What worked, what didn’t?

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While the details are fresh in your mind, it’s a good time to extract the lessons of last season before moving forward. Here are three questions that might unlock some important but overlooked lessons from 2014. What worked and what didn’t? An obvious question, but one that sometimes isn’t given the attention to detail it […] Read more
fababean crop
Columns, Crops

Fababeans: our next Cinderella crop

A nitrogen-fixing legume that doesn’t have us competing with U.S. farmers could be an opportunity

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Before you start — the headline is a bit of a stretch at this point but hopefully you will read on to learn more. The first department head of the newly constituted Soil Science Department, University of Saskatchewan (1919) was Roy Hanson, a soil microbiologist. His first observation was “we need to grow legume crops […] Read more
bonds
Columns, Guarding Wealth

Why should you invest in bonds?

Bonds no longer offer interest above dividend rates, 
but they are an insurance policy for market mayhem

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Readers often ask why and how one should buy bonds. The reason used to be to get interest at a rate above what stocks pay as dividends. That does not work anymore, for bank stocks and big telecoms, for example, pay four to five per cent. Ten-year Government of Canada bonds pay 2.5 per cent. […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

Putting your checkoff dollars to good use

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Feeling tired? Maybe a little overwhelmed? I’m not surprised. You’re a member of so many associations and organizations, I don’t know how you have time to keep your truck filled with gas, what with all that driving to meetings. What’s that you say? Just the Elks? Count again. Through checkoffs deducted from your grain cheques, […] Read more
Push up a diet of stable DMI for optimum milk production
Dairy Cattle, The Dairy Corner

Push up a diet of stable DMI for optimum milk production

Before making any substantial changes, be particularly aware of the natural laws of general feed consumption

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For years, getting lactating dairy cows to eat as much dry matter intake (DMI) as possible has been a common goal among dairy specialists aimed at getting cows to produce more milk. Some of these specialists took note of the more extensive university and extension dairy trials, which report that maximum feed intake is still […] Read more
canola field in bloom
Canola, Wheat & Chaff

Getting the best from your canola rotation

Agronomy tips... from the field

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Canola is Western Canada’s main crop so it’s worth talking about how to get the maximum value within your rotation. Fortunately, there are some well-established facts to help you with your planning. Canola on canola: If you seed canola into last year’s canola stubble, expect a yield drop of 16 per cent, according to data […] Read more

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