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Pre-book seed

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In the middle of a cold Prairie winter, leaving your worries behind with a winter vacation sounds like a good idea. One worry some farmers hitting the beach this winter will be leaving behind is what to plant next spring, as they have pre-purchased their seed before catching their flight. “Book early,” says Bret Gaetz, […] Read more
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Editor’s column

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In January I spent four days in London, Ontario at Syngenta’s Grower University Business Foundations Program. Every year for the past 10 years Syngenta has sent 40 farmers from across the country to the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. The goal of the course is to teach farmers about management and profitability […] Read more
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New corn varieties for 2013

A few issues ago, Grainews featured new corn varieties for 2013. Here are some more to consider. You can find more information about these Croplan varieties at www.croplangenetics.com.  2123VT2P / 2123RR 2500 CHU — Attractive later-flowering hybrids with fast drydown, good seedling vigour, and strong roots and stalks. Exceptional resistance to northern corn leaf blight, eyespot, common rust, anthracnose and fusarium stalk rot.  2845SS 2725 […] Read more
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Grainews founder John Clark dies in Winnipeg

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ohn Clark, the founder and first editor of Grainews, passed away Jan. 18 in Winnipeg at age 81. Born in Regina, John spent much of his early life in Kamsack, where his father Stan worked for Canada Malting. John went into plant science at the University of Saskatchewan where he received a master’s degree with […] Read more
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Editor’s Column

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After zipping up my warmest coat for the third day in a row, I started daydreaming about a vacation. But how much would it cost? Farm business getaways Like (almost) any farmer would, I started wondering if we could write off at least some of the costs of a trip to a sunny place this […] Read more
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New corn varieties for 2013

In the November issue of “Grainews” we ran a story highlighting new corn varieties for 2013. Unfortunately, three new offerings from Hyland Seeds were accidentally left off of the list. Luckily, there’s still time for you to consider these three additional options before you make your spring seeding decisions. Hybrid: 3093 Maturity: 2250 Western CHU Traits: RR End uses: […] Read more
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Editor’s column

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I was concerned when my husband brought home a snowmobile for our six-year-old. Then I found out the neighbours are teaching their second-grader to weld. The snowmobile Obviously, nobody asked me first. It showed up in the back of the truck one day when my husband came home from town. I protested, but it was […] Read more
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A tribute to Alf Bryan

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Alf Bryan passed away on December 3, 2012 at the nursing home in Moose Jaw, Sask. Alf was a family man, farmer and political critic but he will be best remembered as the farmer from Tagaske who scribed in Grainews under the column head “I May be wrong but…” Alf ran as a Liberal in […] Read more
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Editor’s column

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My mother gave me a new cookbook for Christmas this year. It’s called “Good Cookin’ with the L.A.W.” No, we haven’t been reduced to selling cookbooks to fund policing in rural Saskatchewan (yet). L.A.W. is short for “Lacadena Area Women (and Friends).” Since Lacadena, the west-central Saskatchewan community where I grew up, has a population […] Read more
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Editor’s column

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Things are sort of slow on our farm this time of year. We’ve all settled into the fall kindergarten routine. My husband has started up his seed cleaning plant for another winter of business. I’m catching up on some bookkeeping. There’s some farm shows and meetings to get to, but not this week. And it’s […] Read more

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