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Wheat & Chaff

The school van

When I started school in 1954 the school “van” route was up for tender and my dad decided that he could maybe take it on. He had a 1952 International half-ton truck and with a bit of work he made a box for it. A pretty simple box actually, the sides being a centre-split sheet […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

Warm up to safety every day!

Earlier this month, Environment Canada apologized for misreading the signs that lead its forecasters to predict a colder than normal winter. For the most part in Western Canada, it’s been anything but! It’s still chilly out there though. Remember to respect Mother Nature. You’ve been working with your jacket unzipped and no gloves, right? Admit there have been […] Read more
Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Technology on the farm

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Last December Farm Credit Canada (FCC) released the results of a survey about farmers and technology. I wasn’t at all surprised to see the headline: “Producers are keeping up with the times.” I really have no idea why the stereotypical farmer on TV is a guy wearing patched overalls who looks like he can barely […] Read more
Features, Wheat & Chaff

Cargill may run wheat pool in 2012

Cargill may run a pool for western Canadian farmers’ spring wheat in 2012 and will also be ready to offer farmers forward price contracts for their grains in an open market. Grain handlers will be able to immediately offer farmers contracts to buy next year’s harvest once the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) no longer has […] Read more
Columns, Wheat & Chaff

CWB stripped of monopoly powers

In mid December, Canada’s Governor General signed into law Bill C-18 which orders sweeping changes to the marketing of Western Canada’s wheat and barley. Bill C-18, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act, passed third and final reading in the Senate December 15 by a vote of 51-33, after the Conservatives invoked […] Read more
Features, Wheat & Chaff

New fungicide option for canola

DuPont Canada’s crop protection arm has announced a new Group 7 chemical for use on canola, pulses and sunflowers. The crop fungicide Vertisan includes penthiopyrad, a new active ingredient. Dave Kloppenburg, DuPont Canada’s fungicide launch manager, describes Vertisan’s active ingredient as “a brand new molecule that locks onto the fungus to stop disease in its […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

New canola performance data available

Comparative data on canola seed varieties is now available to farmers from the new Canola Performance Trials (CPT) 2011 that replaced the PCV trails axed in 2010. The CPT 2011 represents the next generation in variety evaluation for western Canadian canola growers. The three Prairie canola grower groups – the Alberta Canola Producers Commission, the […] Read more
Features, Wheat & Chaff

Think about getting hitched — safely!

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Misplaced the operator manual to your tried-and-true old tractor? Wondering how to safely tow an older implement with your new high-speed tractor? You’ll find the answers to these and other farm equipment hitching questions in a new guidebook, Safe Implement Hitching. Jim Wassermann, an engineer with the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) in Saskatchewan, is […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

ADM plans for new biodiesel plant, adds Act of God clause

Four Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) oilseed crushing plants in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and North Dakota have added “Act of God” coverage on farmer contracts for high-oleic Nexera canola in 2012. To qualify for the premiums and coverage, farmers must first sign the contract and then buy the Nexera canola seed from a “specified local seed retailer,” […] Read more
Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s column

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A very new crop year This issue of Grainews went to press just days after Bill C-18, the bill removing the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly powers, received royal assent and became law. As I write, the dust is still settling on the court case brought by the now-former eight CWB directors trying to stop the […] Read more

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