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If your cropland is presently clubroot-free, keep it that way. Do not allow any mud-carrying equipment of any kind on your cropland other than your own farm equipment. Plant resistant varieties and keep the land clubroot-free to enhance your financial future.
Columns, Crops

Present and future plant disease and weed issues in the Prairies, Part 1

Disease prevention works if you follow standard crop biosecurity procedures

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Here are 10 of the more important disease and weed issues in Western Canada, but I could easily add 10 more. 1. Clubroot of canola2. Cereal cyst nematode3. Soybean cyst nematode4. Aphanomyces root rot of peas and lentils5. Verticillium wilt of canola6. Sudden death syndrome of soybean7. Potato cyst nematode8. Potato powdery scab9. Sclerotinia white […] Read more
The tree row catches the snow, and the big slough goes from dry to high water table. In years gone by, I spent many hours with three, two-inch pumps to move water from the slough to adjacent upland — not always a huge success.
Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Twenty-seven years of crops at my Dundurn farm

And a few lessons learned

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In the early 1990s, agriculture in Saskatchewan was still suffering from the devastation of the 1980s. Drought and poor crops with low prices were bad news. But, interest rates as high as 20 per cent were the kicker that resulted in much land going back to FCC or the Royal Bank. (Yes, Virginia, interest rates […] Read more
The benefits of irrigation in Alberta
Columns, Crops

The benefits of irrigation in Alberta

Irrigation plays a significant role in increasing crop and livestock production

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Irrigation is often referred to as the “lifeblood” of southern Alberta. Irrigation water was first diverted from the St. Mary River in 1900 and arrived by canal system to Magrath, Raymond and Lethbridge. Now, 122 years later, just over 1.8 million acres are irrigated in Alberta. Irrigated agriculture contributes about $6.5 billion to Alberta’s GDP […] Read more
A baby fox hissing and acting big in the safety of a tree trunk while my two dogs barked at it.
Columns, Features

PHOTOS: Midsummer creatures on the farm

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The growing season takes place and things happen along the way — moments, characters, oddities. Every year, our dogs play a leading role on the farm. They are excited to be among the busyness on the yard. They enjoy following the tractor when we’re close to home. And, in the middle of summer, when all […] Read more
What is soil fertility?
Columns, Crops

What is soil fertility?

There are no miracles in crop production, just sound scientific facts

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Soil fertility for field crops is a very simple affair but extremely difficult to easily explain. Think logically. There are no miracle fertilizers, only plain and simple chemical nutrients whether from an organic source or from a concentrate of nutrients we call chemical or synthetic fertilizer. There is no such thing as a synthetic fertilizer. […] Read more
Having a reasonable cost of money – ie: higher interest rates – often motivates a more judicious use of personal finances.
Columns

Value investing is dead … long live value investing

“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” — Mark Twain

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As I was cleaning my desk clutter, I came across a Globe and Mail article titled, “Five reasons why value investing may never regain its appeal.” It appeared Aug. 27, 2019, after a decade in which growth stocks had significantly outperformed value stocks. It isn’t unusual to see these types of headlines just before a […] Read more
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Wheat & Chaff

Prairie Memoirs: My grandfather, the land and me

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Grandfather immigrated to Canada in 1903. Never having had any experience farming, he had to learn from the ground up, so to speak. He got a job working for a farmer in the Treherne area of Manitoba. Always a writer of short stories and poetry, he recorded his experiences.  I grew up in a troubled […] Read more
Columns, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Is this a farmer mental health movement?

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In 2019, the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food released the results of its study looking at the issue of mental health in the agriculture sector. The report, “Mental Health: A Priority for Our Farmers,” included 10 recommendations to better prevent the onset of mental health problems in Canadian farmers and better support those who […] Read more

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