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The #$@% thing took a #$%& run at me!” My husband was okay, just a little shaken up. All that barking Our dog had been barking at night — all night — for about two weeks. Loudly. On and on. Just outside our bedroom window. We’d get up, go to the window, look outside. Nothing […] Read more
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The changing bond market

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The bond party is ending and may not return for many decades. After enduring the inflationary 1970s, the worst single decade in the last hundred years, bond prices — what people will pay for a buck of interest — rose nearly every year from 1982 to 2012. That’s a 30-year run, about the longest in […] Read more
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Appquest: iScoutCrops

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Field scouting is always an important part of every successful crop year. But sometimes remembering though what is going on in each field can be a challenge when spread over many acres and kilometers. iScoutCrops can help you with that by remembering all your important field information for you. With this app you can field […] Read more
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Firing staff

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I had to fire someone, a fellow writer, about a year ago, and it was a moment that defined me as a man and changed the course of my life. “He must be exaggerating.” No, he is not. This was indeed such an experience. Okay, the defining me part may be pushing it, but the […] Read more
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Some lessons in charting

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Some believe that reading charts is like reading tea leaves. Other investors rely on charts to help them decide when to buy and sell stocks. I’m a bit in-between. Learning how to read charts does need some understanding and, of course, the market or an individual stock can always turn and bite us. Nothing is […] Read more
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Volume and open interest

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Let’s continue where we left off with regards to non-commercial speculation in the futures markets. Some terms you’ll hear are “volume” and “open interest.” Volume is the total number of trades made on a futures or options contract, usually on a daily basis. Open interest is the number of futures or options contracts for a […] Read more
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Alfafa to intercept road ditch salinity

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When I was at the Manitoba meetings in December, Don Flaten, soil science professor at the University of Manitoba, alerted me to a situation in Manitoba. After many wet years and now a drier spell, salinity is being observed along the edge of some road ditches. There was a good example of road ditch salinity […] Read more
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Tile drainage to reclaim saline soils

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In July I received a book order and letter from a farmer south of Brandon. His question was: “Would the 18 inches of rain we get here be enough to provide the ‘leaching’ part of the drainage and leaching to reclaim saline land?” We discussed the matter in a phone call and I did not […] Read more
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Mid-winter portfolio update

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Andy Sirski’s been studying bull put spreads. In this column, he tells you 
how it’s working for his portfolio. And, a tribute to John Clark

A lot has happened since my last column. For one thing, the Dow Jones Index came up to 14,009, within a hair of the old high set in October 2007. A lot of good stocks have made a lot of money these past 63 months. Some would call this a bull market, but most bulls […] Read more
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Making big bets on economic cycles

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These days, it’s hard to find a place where your investment will be safe, let alone lucrative. It helps to make the right choices

There is an economic recovery brewing. Every cycle of boom to bust to boom again is a little different, but the broad patterns are much the same. What counts when economies make their turns is to be in the right type of asset, then the right industry and finally in the right companies. Setting the […] Read more

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