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Wheat & Chaff

Wheat & Chaff

Dress for success to apply pesticides

Farm safety

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With the planting season upon us, pesticides will be part of the arsenal of tools used to prepare for and maintain the impressive patchwork of golden wheat, creamy oats, mustard canola and azure flax across the Prairies. Keeping pests at bay often requires handling chemicals, so the right mix of safe handling practices and personal […] Read more
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Know when to apply fungicide

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The fungicides that assist in defending yield-robbing diseases like Sclerotinia in canola are only beneficial if they are applied before the symptoms appear. So how do you choose to spray or not? If you have the following three conditions, a foliar fungicide application is a smart choice. A strong and potentially high-yielding stand. A good-looking […] Read more
Crops, Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Harvest widows

The editor's column

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In the December issue of Grainews we ran a story by freelance writer Marianne Stamm about “harvest widows” — women coping with the strain of having their husbands out of the house for long hours, day after day during the harvest season. When Marianne submitted this story, I was excited. Everything in the article rang […] Read more
Guenther: Wheat + Chaff
Columns, Wheat & Chaff

Guenther: Wheat + Chaff

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Editor’s note: I am still the editor of Grainews, but I’ve given this page over to our field editor Lisa Guenther for this issue. As you saw on our cover, Lisa’s been looking into the transportation fiasco. She has some well-researched, timely opinions that I wanted to highlight at the very front. — Leeann Minogue […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

Skating on thin ice

Farm Safety

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Recently an Alberta cattle producer had a run in with ice that she’ll likely never forget. It was late November and a balmy 3 C. She was moving bales with a tractor when about 15 of her cattle spied an open gate, raced through it towards a dugout on the farm, and proceeded to fall […] Read more
Livestock, Wheat & Chaff

Surviving a cold-water emergency

In our last article, we reviewed the risks associated with frozen water bodies such as dugouts on the farm. Now we look at what to do if someone falls through the ice. To begin, unless you are trapped in your vehicle or can’t swim, hypothermia is your worst enemy. Hypothermia occurs when a person’s body […] Read more
Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Summer vacation

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Finally, our crop is all in the bin. But at the end of October, some of our neighbours in southeast Saskatchewan were still out in their fields, bringing in the last of their late crops, like soybeans, corn, and flax. Showtime Now that harvest is over, it’s time to think about the winter show and […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

Moonlighting Grainews staff

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Grainews field editor Lisa Guenther has been using her free time to write a book. It’s a mystery novel, set in small-town Saskatchewan. She’s finished a draft, printed it out, and now she’s been awarded second place in the Saskatchewan Writers Guild’s annual John V. Hicks contest. If you’re not a Saskatchewan writer, you won’t […] Read more
Cattleman’s Corner, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s column

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If you let this issue of Grainews sit in a pile on your coffee table for a few weeks before you opened it up, we’re probably still working on harvest here at our farm in southeast Saskatchewan. Things have just been slow this season. We seeded late, and now we’re harvesting late. This is even […] Read more
Columns, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column

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In the last issue of Grainews I wrote about the July 13 hailstorm that swept over most of our land, doing a lot of damage. Since the article was published, we’ve heard from all kinds of friends and acquaintances, passing on condolences and kind wishes. All of the thoughtful comments have definitely made it easier […] Read more

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