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A few things I don’t like about corporate behaviour

Pet peeves about stock option awards, share buybacks and more

By Herman VanGenderen August 14, 2023

Generally, I write very supportively of our capitalist system as in last September’s column, “Profit is not a four-letter word.” This time I will outline several items that often reduce shareholder returns and provide fodder for socialist attacks on the capitalist system that is responsible for our high standard of living. Excessive stock option rewards […] Read more

One of the first steps to managing migraines is recognizing common triggers and finding ways to change the body’s reaction to them.

Farm Life

Migraine management is about more than headaches

Fit to Farm: Many options available to prevent migraines and help relieve symptoms

By Kathlyn Hossack August 11, 2023

Migraines are an intrusive condition that affect many people for various reasons. They are much more than a headache, and for some people a headache is least on the list of symptoms that come with a migraine. While there is no single reason that migraines occur, the two most common manifestations include either too much […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Corteva cuts sales forecast on weak demand for crop protection products

Net seed sales rose eight per cent from a year ago, aided by strong prices and increased corn acres

By Reuters, GFM Network News August 3, 2023

Reuters – Agricultural chemical and seed company Corteva CTVA.N cut its annual sales expectations as demand for its crop protection products showed signs of contraction. Rise in carrying cost of stock for distributors driven by higher interest rates and improved product availability have taken a toll on demand for crop protection products such as herbicide […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan Crop Report: Dryness continues as harvest begins

Since April 1, the entirety of the province received 200 mm or less of rain

By GFM Network News August 3, 2023

MarketsFarm – With the exception of a handful of areas, most of Saskatchewan remained dry for the week ended July 31 as harvest operations began in the province’s southwest and west-central regions. Areas north of Prince Albert and northwest of Kindersley, as well as inside and around Hudson Bay each saw more than 30 millimetres […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Russia strikes Ukraine’s Danube port, sending global grain prices higher

Port hit on Danube opposite NATO-member Romania; Kyiv says aim is to intimidate shippers considering return

By GFM Network News August 2, 2023

Kyiv | Reuters – Russia attacked Ukraine’s main inland port across the Danube River from Romania on Wednesday, sending global food prices higher as it ramps up its use of force to prevent Ukraine from exporting grain. The attacks destroyed buildings in the port of Izmail and halted ships in their tracks as they prepared […] Read more

Testing for voltage drop requires current to be flowing in the electrical circuit. For the starter circuit, that means the key should be turned to the “start” position. | photos courtesy of Scott Garvey

Machinery

How to diagnose a no-start problem

Trace the reason for a no-crank condition on older equipment

By Scott Garvey July 31, 2023

Nearly every farm has at least one or two older pieces of equipment that still need to put in a day’s work during busy seasons, such as an auger tractor or sprayer tender truck. One of the most common problems on older machines is the sound of silence after you hop in and turn the […] Read more

Going down Riding Mountain is a drop of more than 1,000 feet to reach the Manitoba Plains. This was a trip I took in the early ’90s to address the then Western Canada Fertilizer Association
about ground water nitrates.

Columns

Les Henry: Prairie mountains

It’s not all flat land on the Prairies, and each “mountain” has a story to tell

By Les Henry July 28, 2023

“Prairie Mountains” was to be the title of my third book, after Catalogue Houses: Eatons’ and Others and Henry’s Handbook of Soil and Water. The objective was to expel the myth that the Prairie provinces are one flat plain from Winnipeg to Edmonton. It would also talk about the people and resources in the various […] Read more

An artist’s rendering of the Prairie Crops and Soils Research Facility at the University of Manitoba. Photo: University of Manitoba

Crops, General

Feds, Manitoba pledge $6.4M to ag research facility

The new facility will modernize crop and soil research and training at the University of Manitoba

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, GFM Network News July 26, 2023

The Federal and Manitoba governments have thrown their weight behind development of a facility touted to become Canada’s pre-eminent resource for field crop research. “A great deal of our agriculture industry’s success comes from research and skill development,” said federal ag minister Marie-Claude Bibeau in a news release, Tuesday. Bibeau and Derek Johnson, Manitoba’s minister […] Read more

Federal, provincial and territorial ministers of agriculture at their annual conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick in July 2023.
Photo: AAFC

Crops

Federal and provincial ag ministers meet in Fredericton

By GFM Network News July 21, 2023

Environmental issues remain a hot topic for provincial agriculture ministers. That and sustainable agriculture dominated discussions during the recent federal, provincial and territorial (FPT) agriculture ministers meeting in Fredericton, N.B. The annual conference was held from July 19-21. The focus on sustainable agriculture tracks, as this is the first time the ministers have met since […] Read more

Greg Sparrow of Vintage Iron Cycle. (Western Producer photo by Ed White)

General, Machinery

At Ag in Motion: ‘Small iron’ revolution brings bikes to farms

By GFM Network News July 21, 2023

There’s a “small iron revolution” happening on farms across Canada. Even though most farmers and people in agriculture probably see “fat bikes” and “e-bikes” as urban phenomena, these new versions of bicycles are leaping into the farmyards and farm fields in hundreds of places. “I have some farm friends who have e-bikes (or) big fat […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures higher on screwworm news

Trade mission heads for Japan as Canada becomes the country’s top pork supplier

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on lack of Chinese demand, wheat hits contract lows

GFM Network News