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ADM plans for new biodiesel plant, adds Act of God clause

Four Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) oilseed crushing plants in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota have added “Act of God” coverage on farmer contracts for high-oleic Nexera canola in 2012. To qualify for the premiums and coverage, farmers must first sign the contract and then buy the Nexera canola seed from a “specified local seed retailer,” […] Read more
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Editor’s column

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A very new crop year This issue of Grainews went to press just days after Bill C-18, the bill removing the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly powers, received royal assent and became law. As I write, the dust is still settling on the court case brought by the now-former eight CWB directors trying to stop the […] Read more
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The Elusive Estimated Nitrogen Release Number

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The first step in deciding on nitrogen (N) fertilizer rates is to estimate how much N will be available to a crop over the growing season or ENR (estimated nitrogen release). You can be leaving both yield and quality on the table if this is not part of your N calculations. Glyn Evans, working with […] Read more
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Tips On When To Sell Stocks

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Over the years I ve been quite good at buying stocks at or near bottoms by using my favourite market indicators the MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence), the Relative Strength Indicator (RSI) and the full stochastic. They come from different sources of information so when they start to move in the same direction I usually pay […] Read more
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The Other Side Of Average

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For many farmers in southeast Saskatchewan and some other areas, 2011 has been a year to forget, burn all the calendars and hopefully carry on. For those of you in that situation please skip this article and go on to the next. But for many of us in central Saskatchewan and parts of Alberta and […] Read more
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Four Approaches To Valuing Sweat Equity

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A common challenge that we encounter in succession planning is the concept of sweat equity and the opinions vary as widely as to the definition of it. Recently one old codger that we began working with put his opinion very bluntly. He summarized it as follows, Boys, if you can t prod it or poke […] Read more
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Be Safe, Not Sorry With Investments

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For investors, the summer of 2011 was tough. The S&P/TSX Composite Index was off 20 per cent, as I write, and the world is hanging by its virtual fingernails onto news from Europe will Greece default on its national bonds, will other countries fall, and will European banks go bust? The scenario reads like something […] Read more
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The Secret To This Farmer’s Success

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Lucky for me, this column happens to coincide with the Outstanding Young Farmer edition of Grainews.Andrew DeRuyck, my business partner, and his wife Tanis were recently named Manitoba s Outstanding Young Farmers. I felt it was my duty as a responsible member of the media that someone shed some light on the full story of […] Read more
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How Farmer Selling Impacts Lentil Prices

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Now that the lentil crop is more or less in the bin, where are we at with supplies? My estimate was around 800,000 metric tonnes (MT) or so of production while other analysts were reporting more or less twice as much. I have great respect for the difficulty in assessing the size of the crop […] Read more

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