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Soil Zones, Organic Matter And Soil Organisms

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Soil zones and soil organic matter (OM) content are more or less synonymous on the Canadian Prairies. Parent material and climate created certain vegetation and conditions, and the combination of the two provided the organic matter of the topsoil our forefathers broke 100 years ago. A Brown soil with three inches of topsoil and 2.5 […] Read more
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How To Balance Risk And Reward

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If you are looking to make off-farm investments in stocks or bonds, you’ll find you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. The rock is the wavering returns of the stock market, now in a sideways pattern and liable to plunge if the world economy goes into the double dip contraction that many analysts […] Read more
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Play The Market Or Play It Safe

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If we could, we’d all sell at the top of the market and sit on our money until the bills were due. It doesn’t work that way, of course, which makes deciding when to market crops one of the most frequent questions we field. Our advice to many of our clients relates to risk. Understanding […] Read more
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Make The Best Of A Bad Lentil Crop

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It’s apparent that Mother Nature woke up on the wrong side of the bed this growing season. She gave us one of the most challenging weather seasons in recent years, from drought to flooding, hail, wind storms and frost. September showed little mercy to later seeded crops. All crops will suffer some kind of damage […] Read more
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Yield Targets In The Face Of Excess Water

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There comes a time when we have to let this year go and look forward to the prospects that a new year will bring. We have come off several years of lower rainfall, which had left little spare stored soil moisture; the next crop had to rely heavily on winter and spring precipitation. In recent […] Read more
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All New Skills Pay Dividends

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I hope your crop and harvest are moving along. It has been a challenging year to say the least. From time to time, editor Lyndsey would like me to write about stuff other than stocks so today I will write about some of the skills I learned over the years that helped me get to […] Read more
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Want Help? – for Oct. 4, 2010

Grainewsis looking for farmers with troublesome financial questions. We will protect your privacy. We insist on examining real situations, but we do NOT use real names or identify your hometown. You do not have to pay to participate because this service is always free. If you have a financial question, send your name and question […] Read more

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