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Go To Auctions With A Plan

Auction sale season is upon us, making both the wife and the banker a bit nervous. Hopefully the biggest challenge you face this year is from overindulging on the coffee and cherry pie, unlike a gentleman we worked with a year ago, Harley Handup. He is a regular at auction sales and he just can’t […] Read more
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The Buck Stops Here

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It is old news to most farmers that the past 18 months has been a period of unprecedented grain market volatility. This has introduced tremendous uncertainty and new challenges for all players in the grain supply chain — from primary producers to grain companies and the CWB, right up to the end user. On the […] Read more
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Management Is The Great Leveler

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A thick black soil with more consistent rainfall will often outdo a loam soil in the dark brown zone, but the differences are nowhere near what they were when the biggest input was the seed in the ground. Soil fertility is the ability of a soil to supply the necessary plant nutrients to a growing […] Read more
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New Traits Benefit Everyone

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The biotech plant breeding industry will break new ground over the next 10 years with a second generation of genetic traits. Just like the first generation of trait development, the production and agronomic benefits to farmers will be immense as the results will be higher yields, healthier plants and increased production efficiency. What will make […] Read more
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Bracing For Another Wet Year

We have a few plans in case we get another wet summer this year. First, we will be praying for the ability to get on our fields. Then we will be signing up for crop insurance on our native hay land. Late winter snows. Puddles growing. The Red River flooding again. With all this water, […] Read more
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Soil Quality 101: Land Capability

A reader from Alberta recently asked our illustrious editor for an article around the questions: “What is soil quality? How is it measured? And is there an ideal soil?” Jay then suggested I do a series of articles on the subject so a single article did not get too long winded — as this scribe […] Read more
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To Bless Or To Curse

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It happened in the foyer of our church this morning. My pastor asked me how my week had gone, and I quickly said, “It was tough to see a family choose to curse instead of bless. We all get to choose whether we bless or curse one another.” He nodded knowingly, and wrapped his arm […] Read more
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Grass Keeps Us In Cattle

When BSE was announced in 2003 we knew that if we didn’t lower our input prices, we couldn’t continue to raise beef cattle. The downward trends have continued and switching to a grass management system has kept us in the cattle business. When we decided to switch our beef cattle to a grass-based managment system, […] Read more
Home Quarter Investing

The global financial crisis — and volatile commodity prices that followed — has its roots in the relatively recent drive for early retirement

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There has been much talk about the influence of investment funds on commodity prices and suggestions that these investments may need to be regulated. We argue here that investing in commodity markets is just one aspect of the broader retirement dilemma we are all faceing, and that regulation of investments in commodity markets may not […] Read more

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