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This photo was taken September 24, 2021. This canola field near me had way more nice yellow flowers in late September than it did in mid-July. It looked like a decent crop at that time. With no rain in September and very little frost, it dried up for a second time.
Columns, Crops

Les Henry: The Birch effect on our soils in 2021

Microbes had a heyday when the rain came

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As I watched the 2021 growing season unfold, there came a time when I started to think about the “Birch effect.” Lo and behold, when I went looking for the papers that documented the Birch effect, I stumbled on a piece titled “Fall Soil Sampling: the ‘Birch’ Effect” by Les Henry in the October issue […] Read more
Selling options is generally more profitable as the math is in the seller’s favour. However, buying puts works during major bear markets and buying calls works in strong bull markets. In other words, buying options works when there are big price moves.
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More stock option strategies: follow the math

Buy options when there are big price moves

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Puts and calls can be both bought or sold. A call is the right, but not the obligation, to buy shares of a company at a certain price up to a certain date. For example, 3M at the time of writing is $200 per share. Calls expiring on January 21, 2022, with a strike price […] Read more
Soil testing will be more important than ever this fall or next spring.
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Three factors growers should focus on next year

Q & A with an expert

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Q: What critical issues will farmers face in 2022? A: I’d like to start off by saying that 2021 was a memorable year. There were drought conditions recorded across Western Canada, supply challenges for many products and commodity prices never seen before. Now as we look forward to 2022, there will be other challenges that […] Read more
What if the things we’ve been led to believe are outside of our control are within our control?
Columns

Toban Dyck: Free will and agriculture

I think we’re due for a self-imposed moment of reckoning

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When I was in my early twenties, I took a course called “Philosophy of Mind.” Don’t tell anyone, but I’m pretty sure I received a B+ on an essay that I never wrote in that class. I digress. In this course, we spent a lot of time talking about freedom. Specifically, free will. Does free […] Read more
Most Prairie farmers are well aware of the potential advantages of soil testing but lack confidence in the interpretation.
Columns, Crops

Soil analysis reports: get what you need

Seek out trained agronomists, reputable labs and wise interpretation of soil test results

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In the early 1980s, we used a commonly seen bumper sticker in southern Alberta that stated, “Don’t Guess — Soil Test!” to promote the importance of soil testing. However, 40 years later, less than 20 per cent of Prairie farmers soil test their fields on a regular basis. Why is this? For many farmers it […] Read more
After watching the horses being brought into the corral, Joseph and James rode their critters around the house mimicking the real roundup.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

A time of Thanksgiving — for a few reasons

Eppich News: Harvest is complete and 2022 will see a new addition to the family

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September 21 we finished the last oats field at Handel. The next day we got everything ready and then took three trucks and then the two combines over to Landis to combine the last field of the year. As luck would have it, the oats were too green. There was a second growth coming, which […] Read more
This grand, four-square house was built in 1918 southeast of Oyen, Alta. The house was moved to Oyen in 1953, where it served the Kuich family until 1982. It was sold and demolished in 1992.
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Catalogue houses – Eaton’s, others and how it all happened

Farmers have never been as rich as they were from 1915 to 1919

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Regular readers will be familiar with my sideline dealing with catalogue houses. I thought you might like to know how my interest in the subject ended up with a book being written and published. I was raised in a large, old, two-and-a-half-storey house with four bedrooms on the second floor and a long hallway that […] Read more

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