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File photo of wheat south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2022. (Dave Bedard photo)

Prairies’ high-pressure ridge should give way by mid-month

Brisk harvest pace expected meanwhile

By GFM Network News September 6, 2022

MarketsFarm — While there’s not one specific cause of the hot September the Canadian Prairies has generally been having so far, Weatherlogics chief scientist Scott Kehler notes one particular shorter-term factor. “There is a fairly strong upper-level ridge of high pressure across the Prairies right now,” he explained, adding it should dissipate by mid-month. The […] Read more

News

Get your farm finances on track to reduce stress

Tips to help get you out of financial trouble and improve your mental health

By Art Lange September 6, 2022

Mental health among farm families is much written and talked about in the media these days — and rightly so. Over the last couple of years, western Canadian farmers have been hit by record-setting droughts and other hardships while they cope with the lingering effects of the pandemic. In Alberta, there was an excess of […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Observe, monitor and record these factors in your fields this fall

Q & A with an expert

By Ernie Nycholat September 6, 2022

Q: What factors are important to consider during my fall crop evaluation? A: Farmers are continually observing and assessing the development of their crops throughout the year — and adjusting crop production management to address concerns or opportunities. At harvest time, we must record the outcome of all of those efforts. When we think of […] Read more

Crops, Weather

Canadian crop production bounces back, StatCan reports

Wheat at higher end of trade projections

By GFM Network News August 29, 2022

MarketsFarm — After 2021’s historic drought on the Prairies caused crop production to fall to historic lows, the 2022 harvest has mostly bounced back to pre-drought levels, according to Statistics Canada. StatCan on Monday released its July 2022 satellite image-based principal field crop production estimates, which confirmed analysts’ expectations that this year’s crop production would […] Read more

Columns, Hart Attacks

Are we going somewhere in a handbasket?

I thought the government was looking after us but maybe I had the wrong country

By Lee Hart August 26, 2022

Where did everybody go? One of the mysteries that has confused me in recent months as we sorta, somewhat, maybe turn the corner on this COVID thing is where did all the workers go? I’m sure it is as noticeable on the farm or in rural communities as much as it is in the city. […] Read more

Stuart Chutter, product coordinator for Alberta’s Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC), says research has shown the leading factor to reducing the risk of yield loss on the farm is high soil organic matter. One day, crop insurance rates may reflect that.

News

What’s the relationship between soil organic matter and crop insurance?

Adjusting insurance premiums based on soil quality factors is an idea now being discussed

By Lee Hart August 25, 2022

This is all just in the thinking stage right now, but the day may come when farms that can demonstrate production practices that maintain high levels of soil organic matter may qualify for reduced crop insurance premiums. It is a concept being pondered right now by Alberta’s crop insurance agency, the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation […] Read more

Internally displaced Ethiopians queue to receive food aid in the Higlo camp for people displaced by drought, at the town of Gode in Ethiopia’s Somali region on April 26, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Acute food insecurity now touching 345 million worldwide

By GFM Network News August 24, 2022

Baghdad | Reuters — The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Before the coronavirus crisis, 135 million suffered from acute hunger worldwide, Corinne Fleischer, the WFP’s regional […] Read more

An aerial view of parched terrace fields at Chongqing’s Fuyuan village in east-central China on Aug. 19, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

China’s farmers struggle to save crops as heatwave, drought drag on

By GFM Network News August 19, 2022

Chongqing | Reuters — As the tinder-dry countryside along China’s Yangtze river basin withers under a heatwave that has lasted more than two months, veteran farmer Chen Xiaohua recalled the last severe drought to hit his crops more than 60 years ago. “This year is drier than 1960,” said Chen, 68, from his plot of […] Read more

Next time you’re struggling to fall asleep, try one of the breathing exercises below.

Farm Life, FarmLife

A good night’s sleep is important to quality of health

Fit to Farm: But if you struggle to get to sleep, these exercises will be worth a try

By Kathlyn Hossack August 19, 2022

Do you struggle to fall asleep on a regular basis? Sleep, or rather, quality sleep is one of the most important factors to quality of health and quality of living. Regularly going with six or less hours of sleep per night has been proven to produce mental states similar to being intoxicated. The negative effects of […] Read more

Columns

Outside of speculative fervor, numbers count

How tech giants Amazon and Shopify stack up against Linamar

By Herman VanGenderen August 18, 2022

This is the third installment of my series on comparative company analysis. For this column, I’m looking at two “hot” tech companies, Amazon (AMZN) and Shopify (SHOP) and contrasting them with an old school Canadian industrial company Linamar (LNR), which has an agricultural connection through the ownership of MacDon. My analysis was done in late […] 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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