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Are You Making Emotional Decisions?

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Pierrette Desrosiers has a very powerful message for farmers. “If you can’t manage your emotions, your emotions will manage you,” she says. Desrosiers is a Quebec-based psychologist and coach who often shares a room with me at conferences, like we did in Quebec at the International Succession Conference last August. If you’d like to catch […] Read more
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More EFP Money For Upgrades

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Items such as fertilizer bins traditionally depreciate relatively slowly and if they are funded at 75 per cent of the cost, the impact on the balance sheet will be positive for quite a while. EFP PROVINCIAL CONTACTS ALBERTA SASKATCHEWAN MANITOBA The Alberta Environmental Farm Plan Company Toll-free information line 1-866-844-2337 Web site www.AlbertaEFP.com Provincial Council […] Read more
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Call In The Clan And Celebrate

Thanksgiving is one of my favourite celebrations of the year, simply because it calls me to give thanks with a grateful heart. It’s a marker in our year after harvest as we gather at church to view the display of wheat, garden gifts, and celebrate with a bountiful meal. We also are blessed to share […] Read more
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5 Qs For Your Seed Retailer

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Seeding by bushels per acre is completely irrelevant to ensuring success. Seeding by 1,000-kernel weight is essential to achieve the stand that you want. As harvest wraps up, you start thinking about — and booking — seed for next year. In the past three years, farmers are starting to book their cereal seed in the […] Read more
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12-Inch Samples Work For N

If you are serious about a need for better P and K recommendations, it is probably better to do a six-inch test for those nutrients. Soil testing in Western Canada began in a serious way in the 1960s — the same time as fertilizer use began to be a significant part of farm operations. Despite […] Read more
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Common Sense Flew The Coop

I see more and more news articles and Internet conversation about the concept of “urban farms” in the backyards of cityfolk. The preached benefits are community support, less fossil fuel use and the ever popular, “It’s safer food.” Where we have crossed the line of common sense is that some cities in Ontario allow backyard […] Read more
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Maybe its time for a new farmer-run fertilizer co-op

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1960 1986 Year Nitrogen 2006 16 80 101 Phosphorus (P2O5) 15 39 40 Potassium (K2O) 13 25 30 Data is from Figure 1 in Terry Robert’s paper “The Role of Fertilizer in Growing the World’s Food” on pages 12-15, Better Crops with Plant Food, 2009 No. 2. Go to www.ipni.netto access this good little magazine. […] Read more
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Make Your Own Machinery Log

In an attempt to organize our farm last summer, we implemented a maintenance scribbler for the machinery. It worked, sort of. It allowed my husband to look and see that the boys hadn’t done what he had thought should have been done. The object of this project wasn’t to create more work for him. It […] Read more
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Can This Hogman Hold Out?

A hog operation, Bacon Bits Inc., owned by Boss Hog, was recently in touch to discuss their situation. Bacon Bits is a 1,200 sow farrow to isowean operation in Southern Manitoba which has historically shipped weanlings into the U. S. Bacon Bits expanded to its present size eight years ago with the security of some […] Read more
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Grainviews

Gary Pike is guilty of publishing (Correction, May 4, 2009, page 3) incorrect statements and misinformation damaging to the reputation of the Canadian Wheat Board. No surprise since he came loaded with an anti-CWB agenda. After all, he was hand-picked by Prime Minister Harper to testify against the CWB. No wonder that the U. S. […] Read more

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