Columns & Production Tips

Briana Hagen is a passionate advocate for farmers’ mental health.

Making a difference by advocating for farmers’ mental health

By Erin Kelly March 23, 2020

Ten years ago, Briana Hagen never imagined she’d be involved in agriculture, let alone be a passionate advocate for the mental health of farmers. But that’s exactly where Hagen finds herself as she wraps up her PhD with the department of population medicine at the University of Guelph. “If I look back to 10 or […] Read more

Joseph helps Grandpa John with birthday cake duties.

Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Year begins with roller-coaster temperatures

Hopefully weather will hold for late-February start of calving season

By Heather Eppich March 19, 2020

January started with a mild temperature that allowed us to do a few more out-of-season projects. Early in the new year, Gregory and John worked on the holding corral at the Landis pasture. Later we used the 4450 tractor and the post hole auger to put in nine more railroad ties for the back corral. […] Read more

Crops, News, Wheat & Chaff

Help! How do I get ready for seeding?

Q & A with an expert

By Lyle Cowell March 19, 2020

Q: What’s your best advice for young farmers? A. My best advice is not about pest control or nutrient management, but to remember where we farm. Western Canadian farmers are not blessed with a long growing season. We grow crops with maturity that often barely fit between the bookends of the last spring and the […] Read more

Columns, Crops

The importance of molybdenum

Molybdenum (Mo) is important to the growth of all plants, including your canola

By Ieuan Evans March 19, 2020

Animals and plants require trace amounts of molybdenum. Its importance is vastly disproportionate with regard to the amount required for normal growth. In past years, most farmers and soil scientists were just getting to grips with sulphur and phosphate requirements of crop plants, let alone nitrogen and potash. It seemed as long as you had […] Read more

Columns

Farm Financial Planner: Estate planning with an out-of-date will

Passing the farm to the next generation when Dad’s will doesn’t mention the kids

By Andrew Allentuck March 17, 2020

A woman named Ruth, 65, and her late husband Max, who recently passed away at 66, farmed 1,600 acres in Manitoba’s Interlake region for the last four decades. Ruth continues their mixed farming operation with 800 acres of grain and the remainder in pasture and hay for what was, before they sold them, a small […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Micronutrients and prairie agriculture

As we increase expected yields, we need to consider micronutrient availability

By Ieuan Evans March 16, 2020

In my many years of involvement in agricultural and horticultural pursuits, I have repeatedly come across cynicism when I talk about the need for micronutrients. North Americans, as well as Europeans, are slow to realize the absolute role that micronutrients play in plant and animal health and well-being. Unlike horticulturalists, particularly the Dutch horticulturalist specialists, […] Read more

Columns, Hart Attacks

Tribulations and field trials

Politics as much a concern as the weather and agronomics

By Lee Hart March 13, 2020

I’m hoping by the time this column appears in print that all road and railway blockades have been removed and truck and rail commerce has returned to normal across the country. If it hasn’t by this March 10 publishing date, we might very well be in a state of war. I was writing this column […] Read more

Columns

Toban Dyck: Expanding your knowledge to learn new things

Leaning new things expand your horizons, if you can leave your comfort zone

By Toban Dyck March 13, 2020

If you’re like me and you prefer to learn things on your own terms, Google Alerts are an eye-opening exploration into a deep well of information, the bounds of which seem only to be limited by imagination. This was my experience, anyway. This is not a new service. Google Alerts have been around for a […] Read more

Stepping down from this job might give me more time for gardening this summer.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: All good things come to an end

By Leeann Minogue March 13, 2020

Our March 10 issue of Grainews is my last as editor. When I took on this job in November of 2011, I planned to stay for six months. I was covering a maternity leave for the previous editor. I wasn’t fully qualified for the position. I’d never been an editor before, and I didn’t have […] Read more

Columns

Seven strategies of successful farms

Focusing on costs, risks, and your farm’s budget and financial plan

By Brian Wittal March 12, 2020

I’ve been discussing the top seven practices of successful farm management. In this article, let’s focus on the last three. No. 5 on the list is knowing your cost of production. I break costs of production out into three components: direct, variable and fixed costs. Direct costs are those expenses that have a direct impact […] Read more

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Columns

Making a difference by advocating for farmers’ mental health

Year begins with roller-coaster temperatures

Help! How do I get ready for seeding?

The importance of molybdenum

Farm Financial Planner: Estate planning with an out-of-date will

Micronutrients and prairie agriculture

Tribulations and field trials

Toban Dyck: Expanding your knowledge to learn new things

Editor’s Column: All good things come to an end

Seven strategies of successful farms

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