Wheat & Chaff & Production Tips

Protecting vulnerable farm workers

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association March 7, 2016

Canada’s agricultural industry employs many different categories of workers at different times throughout the year to complete different farm tasks. These workers may be seasonal workers, older workers, new workers and young workers. What’s important to recognize is that you may have vulnerable workers that could be at risk for injury. So what can you […] Read more

Canola, Wheat & Chaff

Keys to flea beetle control in canola crops

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Ted Labun March 3, 2016

The important thing to understand about flea beetles is that they overwinter as adults — and it’s those adults that do all the feeding on your seedlings come the spring. Your canola crop is most vulnerable to flea beetle feeding from the cotyledon stage at emergence up until it reaches the three- or four-leaf stage. […] Read more

Economist Jeff Rubin spoke at CropSphere in January in Saskatoon.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: What I learned from Jeff Rubin at CropSphere

By Leeann Minogue March 1, 2016

I was looking forward to Jeff Rubin’s keynote lunch presentation at CropSphere in Saskatoon this winter. Back in 2008, Jeff Rubin was the CIBC’s chief economist. That spring, oil was trading at US$118 a barrel, and Rubin predicted that the price would rise to US$225 by 2012. Higher oil prices, he explained, would put pressure […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Create safe play areas for kids

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association February 22, 2016

This year, for Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is working towards “Keeping Kids Safe” as a part of the three-year theme of “Be An Ag Safe Family.” Part of keeping kids safe on the farm is creating, using, and maintaining a safe play area. Play teaches children co-operation. Play helps children […] Read more

These are just some of the reports Saskatchewan farmers could have picked up in January.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: AGMs at Crop Production Week

Plus, five reasons  to go to the AGM 

By Leeann Minogue February 2, 2016

You know it’s time for the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon when the temperature drops down to “wear your warmest coat.” This year’s show had the same format as the past two years, with a trade show on the exhibition grounds on one side of the city, a handful of meetings at the Saskatoon Inn […] Read more

Summer Landscape with a field of yellow flowers. Sunset

Canola, Wheat & Chaff

2015 weather affects 2016 agronomy

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Rob Klewchuk January 28, 2016

Now that 2015 is pretty much under our belts, I think we can say, in general, that weather conditions got off to a fairly good start and then turned unusually dry for the balance of the season. And when the rains eventually did come, they came at the wrong time — creating challenging conditions at […] Read more

Even the fortune cookies are different  in Ottawa. My friend got this message  in his cookie at a Thai restaurant in  Ottawa’s Byward Market.

Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Notes from a foreign country

Ottawa, that is...

By Leeann Minogue January 27, 2016

No matter how you feel about our newly elected federal government, I think all Grainews readers can agree on one thing: federal government employees in Ottawa can never really understand Prairie farms. Before I married a farmer and moved to southeast Saskatchewan, I had a provincial government job in Regina. I can tell you — […] Read more

Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Think of disease when choosing canola seed

Agronomy tips... from the field

By Michael Hutton January 11, 2016

We all know that top-end yield is ultimately what drives canola seed selections, because that’s what pays your bills. That’s why I’d encourage you to look at last year’s Canola Performance Trials, provincial seed guides and any public trials to get the fullest picture of how a hybrid has performed. Look at several years of […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Make your New Year’s resolution an injury-free 2016

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association January 7, 2016

Get fit, spend less money, eat better and be kinder. These are all typical New Year Resolutions. Fuelled by the determination to get those six-pack abs — OK two-pack abs — we are excited to show the world (and more importantly, ourselves) that we can do it! We have the self-control, the energy and the […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Give the gift of safety for Christmas

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association December 18, 2015

Each Christmas season, there is a new, must-have gift. Chatty Cathy dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids and Tickle Me Elmo dolls were all at one point toys that caused parents to panic, children to hope and retailers to sweat. This year, instead of lining up for the latest fancy toy why not give the gift of […] Read more

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Protecting vulnerable farm workers

Keys to flea beetle control in canola crops

Editor’s Column: What I learned from Jeff Rubin at CropSphere

Create safe play areas for kids

Editor’s Column: AGMs at Crop Production Week

2015 weather affects 2016 agronomy

Editor’s Column: Notes from a foreign country

Think of disease when choosing canola seed

Make your New Year’s resolution an injury-free 2016

Give the gift of safety for Christmas

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