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Resilient rotations

Researchers focus on precipitation use efficiency as a way to assess crop rotations

By Jim Timlick January 17, 2023

While extreme heat and drought made life miserable for farmers in many parts of the Prairies the past few summers, those conditions proved to be something of a silver lining for a group of researchers leading a project called Resilient Rotations. A key area of the study, which aims to develop a new approach to […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Prairie Memoirs: Straight lines

By Brad Hauber January 16, 2023

Farmers love straight lines. Straight lines look sharp and mean you are on top of your game. Look anywhere and you will find them. Drive down any Prairie road and look down a line of grain bins and good luck trying to find one out of step. This is civil engineering perfection, Prairie farm-style. If […] Read more

Farmers have a lot riding on agriculture. Investing in public companies that ride the same wave as your farm may not be the best approach.

Columns

How do agricultural companies measure up as investments?

Do they make too much money on the backs of hard-working farmers?

By Herman VanGenderen January 12, 2023

A couple of months ago, I penned the article, “Profit is not a four-letter word,” after which I intended to immediately delve into agricultural companies’ investment merits. However, I was diverted to oil company investments after a quote from the director general of the United Nations so perfectly illustrated my points in the “profits” article. […] Read more

When we are in a stressed state, any signal from our body, including pain, will be amplified.

Farm Life

Plagued by pain?

Fit to Farm: Here are some pain-relieving techniques that don’t involve medications

By Kathlyn Hossack January 11, 2023

Pain of varying forms is a natural part of life. However, it shouldn’t be a constant intrusion for any length of time. Acute pain is typically a response from our body to a real or perceived threat to our survival. This means it might be something literal like the pain that accompanies stubbing your toe […] Read more

Choosing not to talk or giving your family the silent treatment is a decision with painful consequences, as you don’t have input in the wealth transfer decision process.

Columns, Farm Life

Froese: Reduce family friction

How to get your non-farm siblings on board with your farm vision

By Elaine Froese January 10, 2023

Are your aunts and uncles still talking to your farm parents? Do you have a broken branch of your family tree that has been severed forever due to estrangement? Would you like to have a healing story for your farm family transition with no drama? “The Farmland Dilemma: Help! The Siblings Who Don’t Farm are […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Prairie Memoirs: Wartime memory still fresh in mind of retired Alberta farmer

By Jim Timlick January 9, 2023

It’s a moment that remains etched in Stanley Lamb’s memory 80 years later. Lamb, 90, grew up on his family’s grain farm just outside of Clareshome, Alta., a small town located about 125 kilometres south of Calgary. As a youngster, he attended classes at a tiny one-room school situated about 15 km east of town. […] Read more

Farm Credit Canada says Canadian farmers are in a good position to meet the challenges 2023 may present.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Waves of optimism and bewilderment

By Kari Belanger January 4, 2023

Before I get into my first column of 2023, I’d like to wish you a Happy New Year! I hope 2023 is a great year for all. That said, what a wild ride 2022 was. The high commodity prices and the promise of a new growing season after the 2021 drought had us all feeling […] Read more

Commodities are notoriously volatile, which makes them tricky investments.

Columns

Why invest in energy?

Will “reversion to the mean” occur this time?

By Herman VanGenderen January 3, 2023

My last article had me questioning my sanity for investing in energy companies. The last decade has been brutal, and the political environment is brutal. Before delving into the questions, I would like to comment on a common narrative — that the invasion of Ukraine caused a European energy crisis. The narrative is highlighted by […] Read more

The Singing Santa belts out Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer before a live audience at the Jingle Bell Breakfast.

Farm Life

An Alberta couple meets The Singing Gardener

Plus the traditional Dutch recipe Boerenkool or kale with potato and sausage

By Ted Meseyton January 3, 2023

It was an outstanding occasion when I met two of my Grainews readers in early October. The rare event resulted from an earlier phone call to yours truly that eventually led to my face-to-face meeting with Jennie and Bill Van Straalen from Coaldale, Alta., east of Lethbridge. A story unfolds shortly including a recipe from Jennie. The bulk of communications from […] Read more

File photo of vineyards and countryside at Samaipata in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes. (Jef Wodniack/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters

Bolivia farm region blocks borders, grain transport in protests

By GFM Network News January 2, 2023

Santa Cruz/La Paz | Reuters — Protesters in Bolivia’s farming region of Santa Cruz are blocking highways out of the province, threatening to snarl the domestic transport of grains and food, as anger simmers following the arrest of local governor Luis Camacho. The region, a stronghold of the conservative opposition to socialist President Luis Arce, […] Read more

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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