Columns & Production Tips

Editor’s Column: ROI on ag tech is about more than dollars and cents

By Kari Belanger April 12, 2021

As a farmer, you face many challenges — pests, drought, increased input costs, market volatility, labour shortages, inclement weather, logistical issues and climate change, to name a few. For the most part, these challenges are out of your control and, therefore, hard or impossible to manage. This is where the value of smart ag comes […] Read more

Columns

Specs and SPACs…

...and “how my idiot son quintupled his money in two months” (his words)

By Herman VanGenderen April 5, 2021

“But the most absurd and preposterous of all, and which showed more completely than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one, started by an unknown adventurer entitled ‘Company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.'” The above quote is by Charles Mackay from a […] Read more

The original wood framed EM38 complete with store string. Readers of Henry’s Handbook can check out page 81 to get the story behind the store string.

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: The EM38 Field Scout

The EM38 always gives the right answer — what that answer means in terms of soil interpretation is up to the user and experience

By Les Henry April 5, 2021

This piece is intended primarily for PAgs and CCAs and the farmers they serve. Field scouting of crops and soils has become an important part of the services provided. Grainews carries a regular column highlighting examples of crop-problem scouting by agronomists with Richardson Pioneer. I read the column each issue and often learn something new […] Read more

Crops, Wheat & Chaff

The goal of precision ag is to do things more effectively

Q & A with an expert

By Nathan Trowell April 1, 2021

Q: Is zone management a fit for my farm? A: Zone management is one of many precision agriculture practices utilized in farming. In its simplest form, zone management is shutting off the fertilizer in areas of your field that are unproductive. More advanced zone management utilizes precision ag tools like GPS auto steer, yield mapping, […] Read more

Generational transfer and the task of being fair to the other children is complex.

Columns, Features

How to keep the farm together, a complex generational transfer

Farm Financial Planner: Parents devise a plan for middle-aged children to keep the farm whole

By Andrew Allentuck March 31, 2021

A couple we’ll call Max, 75, and his wife, Betty, 70, farm 1,000 acres in western Manitoba. They have three children who are 40, 48 and 45 years old. The eldest and youngest have city jobs and no wish to farm. The middle son, who we’ll call Brian, will take over the farm. The issue […] Read more

Pea root rot moves into new cropland about the same way as clubroot. Follow the clubroot protocol.

Columns, Crops

The looming Prairie-wide pea crop disaster

Follow the clubroot protocol to ensure your future as a pea grower

By Ieuan Evans March 30, 2021

When I first became involved in checking out pea diseases in Alberta in 1974, pea crops were few and far between. Pea growing was somewhat of a disaster. The pea variety generally grown was called Trapper. This was a tall, six-foot vine that lodged as soon as pod-filling took place. The mass of lodged leaves […] Read more

‘One of the tricks of farming and, I imagine, any discipline or vocation, is the ability to act and make decisions despite not having all the answers.’ – Toban Dyck

Columns

Toban Dyck: How much of what we do as farmers is learned or the result of habit?

How you answer this question could be quite revealing

By Toban Dyck March 30, 2021

When I began writing this column in 2012, some of its value was wrapped up in my shameless approach to admitting, as a then 32-year-old, all of the things I did not yet know about farming and all the things I’d have to relearn in order to farm. I promised to take you along for […] Read more

News, Wheat & Chaff

PPE care and use during COVID-19

By Robert Gobeil March 29, 2021

Farmers of all different commodities are intimately familiar with personal protective equipment (PPE). Everything from work gloves and steel-toed boots to respirators and coveralls, all farms have spent a small fortune to keep everyone well equipped with the items they need to reduce the risk of injury or illness. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Why are we still losing children to farm accidents?

By Kari Belanger March 24, 2021

When you become a parent, you realize very quickly that after that little life arrives, yours will never be the same. We invest all of the resources we have at our disposal into our children — love, attention, energy, money … the list goes on and on. And there are so many benefits to raising […] Read more

This well data can be interpreted as a 30-year net cumulative drought from 1975 to 2005.

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: On salty ground

We’ve come full circle in the soil salinity cycle

By Les Henry March 22, 2021

This topic was not on the to-do list for this winter. Soil salinity is a very hot topic right now and many farmers are concerned they will have no land to farm if it carries on like this. The last time I remember such concern about soil salinity was during the late 1970s and early […] Read more

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Columns

Editor’s Column: ROI on ag tech is about more than dollars and cents

Specs and SPACs…

Les Henry: The EM38 Field Scout

The goal of precision ag is to do things more effectively

How to keep the farm together, a complex generational transfer

The looming Prairie-wide pea crop disaster

Toban Dyck: How much of what we do as farmers is learned or the result of habit?

PPE care and use during COVID-19

Editor’s Column: Why are we still losing children to farm accidents?

Les Henry: On salty ground

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