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Tax strategy raises income for couple in mid-life
Columns

Tax strategy raises income for couple in mid-life

The issue is financial efficiency

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A couple we’ll call Harry, 50, and Margie, 49, own three sections in central Manitoba. They have a mixed farm operation producing hay and grains. They estimate their farm, machinery and inventory is worth $3.5 million. They need $84,000 a year after tax to maintain their way of life. The problem is getting that money […] Read more
Harvest got underway in late August, first with the peas to be combined and then (above) moving into harvest wheat. Except for one rainy day, so far the weather has been great.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Harvest season is well underway

Eppich News: Well water starts flowing to the garden, while it’s a challenge to keep combine air conditioning running

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Early August was a busy combination of working summerfallow and beginning to cut hay in the ditches. On August 7 we had a fun family Sunday. In the afternoon we took the boys and John and Barb out to the pasture at Landis and we had a hot dog and marshmallow roast. It was a […] Read more
Wellen Boring and Well Drilling of Saskatoon is about to install the fibreglass casing on a new water well drilled on the Eppich farm.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Great success in drilling water wells

Eppich News: A busy month as old friends come to visit and haying gets underway

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There is no rest for the wicked this summer. The old hayfield that we converted into a pasture this spring had been running short of water and so we were trying to figure out how to best manage our pastures and the low water situation. We were desperately wanting to take some bales off of […] Read more
Every oil field in the world is simply a product of the diatoms in the world’s oceans.
Columns

The biology of oil and coal

A deep dive into their formation and uses

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Both oil and coal are the products of plain and simple plant photosynthesis. That is the chlorophyll in green diatoms, microscopic algae and green plants on land, which thrived hundreds of millions of years ago as they trapped the sun’s radiant light energy. These microscopic green algae in the world’s oceans took light energy from […] Read more
Central bankers who initially called spiking inflation transitory are now somewhat in a panic.
Columns

The economy, GDP, inflation, interest rates, recessions and bear markets

These items are interrelated but perhaps not as directly correlated as perceived

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The current U.S. bear market is brought to you by an unwinding of speculative excess, increasing inflation driving interest rates, Putin’s war in Ukraine and fears of a recession. A recession is defined as two quarters of negative growth. First quarter U.S. growth was negative and if the second quarter comes in negative it will […] Read more
With hot and dry conditions it has been a challenge to keep water supplied to cattle on some of the summer ranges.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Grass tetany claims a young cow

Rancher’s Diary: Dry conditions, forest fires and a brush with a rattlesnake

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July 1 Last Thursday the water tank on the hill pasture was nearly empty so Andrea, Lynn and I took the pump and hoses up there and pumped from the ditch across the road and filled it again for the six pairs grazing up there. That afternoon I helped Andrea finish putting up electric fence […] Read more
combine in the field
Columns, Crops

Observe, monitor and record these factors in your fields this fall

Q & A with an expert

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Q: What factors are important to consider during my fall crop evaluation? A: Farmers are continually observing and assessing the development of their crops throughout the year — and adjusting crop production management to address concerns or opportunities. At harvest time, we must record the outcome of all of those efforts.  When we think of […] Read more
Under dry growing conditions dry corn - corn under 60 per cent moisture — can be a challenge to properly ensile, but it can be done.
Cattleman’s Corner, The Dairy Corner

Working dry corn silage into dairy diets

It's important to have it tested, regardless of feed moisture levels

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I live in Manitoba and continuous flooding rains since our heavy snows melted have delayed corn planting to the point that much of our corn silage this fall will be wet and immature. However, I travel to other parts of the Prairies and many dairy farms need rain. I suspect that much of these corn […] Read more

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