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A few things I don’t like about corporate behaviour
Columns

A few things I don’t like about corporate behaviour

Pet peeves about stock option awards, share buybacks and more

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Generally, I write very supportively of our capitalist system as in last September’s column, “Profit is not a four-letter word.” This time I will outline several items that often reduce shareholder returns and provide fodder for socialist attacks on the capitalist system that is responsible for our high standard of living. Excessive stock option rewards […] Read more
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News, Wheat & Chaff

See and be seen with farm equipment on public roads

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Regardless of what we’re driving, our safety and that of others on public roads is a shared responsibility. Safety considerations are essential since our actions — or inactions — have consequences. For farm equipment operators, ensuring you can see and be seen is a primary safety consideration. The Manitoba government says recent studies have shown […] Read more
Going down Riding Mountain is a drop of more than 1,000 feet to reach the Manitoba Plains. This was a trip I took in the early ’90s to address the then Western Canada Fertilizer Association about ground water nitrates.
Columns

Les Henry: Prairie mountains

It’s not all flat land on the Prairies, and each “mountain” has a story to tell

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“Prairie Mountains” was to be the title of my third book, after Catalogue Houses: Eatons’ and Others and Henry’s Handbook of Soil and Water. The objective was to expel the myth that the Prairie provinces are one flat plain from Winnipeg to Edmonton. It would also talk about the people and resources in the various […] Read more
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Columns, Crops

Mustard production in Western Canada

Canada is one of the world’s largest producers of yellow, oriental and brown mustard types

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Yellow mustard, just like ketchup, is an ever-present condiment with almost all conventional fast foods. Who could eat a hot dog in Canada without first lathering the bun with swaths of yellow mustard? Canada, as it turns out, is one of the world’s biggest producers of three kinds of mustard — yellow, oriental and brown […] Read more
Young corn plant sprout growing from the ground, Agricultural Farm Field, Selective Focus with Shallow Depth of Field
Columns, Crops

Weed resistance management is not just about herbicide rotation

Q & A with an expert

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Q: What other weed management tools should I consider in addition to herbicide rotation? A: Agriculture and food production has benefited from weed control with herbicides for many decades. Careful use of herbicides is a safe, quick and effective means to stop weeds from competing for water, nutrients and light. This is not a perfect […] Read more
There are 37 acres of annual pasture seeded to two different blends including a cover crop blend that includes, oats, peas, sunn hemp, sunflower, crimson clover, lablab (a forage legume that grows similar to sweet pea), and radish.
Beef Cattle, Columns, Livestock

All efforts geared toward sustainable beef and crop production

Quebec producer adopts regenerative agriculture practices in a bid ‘to do something different’

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Stéphane Guay produces beef and cash crops on his farm in southwest Quebec, but there is so much more happening on this 400-acre regenerative agriculture operation he’s been developing over the past few years. Yes, there are cattle and crops, but they’re just part of a diversified farming operation that includes a wide range of […] Read more
It was all hands on deck for processing of cows and calves in mid-May before they head out to summer pasture.
Columns

Water diverted to fields to get grass growing

Rancher's Diary: Cattle are processed and soon heading to summer range

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April 27 This past week was cold, windy and more snow. Last Thursday we put the last two pairs out of the barn and into pens with windbreaks and roof shelters over the corners so those new babies could get out of the wind and snow. Friday evening grandson Nick came by and we gave […] Read more
Les Henry: Climate change in our neck of the woods
Columns, Crops, Weather

Les Henry: Climate change in our neck of the woods

We have much more to fear from cold than warm

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Regular readers may recall my Jan. 21, 2020 column that showed monthly temperature data for Swift Current, Sask., from 1886 to 2018. That was followed by my March 24, 2020 column that included sites from North Dakota, which provided the same conclusions. Weather is the day-to-day, month-to-month and year-to-year conditions that we experience. Climate is […] Read more
Canada could become a major grower and exporter of poppy seed or, perhaps, we could explore its oilseed and feed or food potential for the Prairies.
Columns

Poppy crops for Western Canada

Could this be an opportunity for Prairie farmers?

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My interest in this topic was piqued by the fact that I purchased a pound of poppy seed at an Edmonton grocery outlet and it cost me more than $10. I checked the internet and the literature on poppy seed growing and was surprised to find that Australia, Turkey, the Czech Republic and even Britain […] Read more

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