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Farm thefts on the rise

Community action is the first line of defence

By John Dietz July 26, 2022

Crime isn’t just a big city problem. Farms can be vulnerable to thieves, particularly if they don’t have any security features to help ward off intruders. Country Guard Security, based in Devon, Alta., specializes in protecting farms and acreages against property crimes and has clients across Alberta. The owner, Guy Spiro, who set up the […] Read more

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. speaks as Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri and House Speaker Martin Romualdez applaud during his first State of the Nation Address, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, July 25, 2022. Photo: Aaron Favila/Pool via Reuters

Reuters

Philippines’ Marcos lays out ambitious policy agenda with farm sector in focus

By GFM Network News July 25, 2022

Manila | Reuters – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday outlined ambitious plans for his six-year term in office that focus on fiscal management, infrastructure upgrades and turning the long-neglected farm sector into an engine of growth. The Philippines is beset with numerous challenges, from soaring prices, food shortages, poverty and inequities in education, but Marcos, the […] Read more

Wrapping up this highly irregular seeding season with a final barley crop.

Columns

Better late than never

For the 2022 seeding season that about sums things up

By Toban Dyck July 21, 2022

I am writing this on my phone while seeding our last field. It’s June 9 and this is the latest I’ve ever seeded a crop. I’m seeding barley on a 90-acre parcel in the Red River Valley. I have exactly four minutes and five seconds of writing time between turns at each end of the […] Read more

Nestled atop cuttings of fresh thyme are pieces of that wonderful Icelandic and Swedish torte known as Vinarterta. A soft dough is thinly rolled into five equal portions, pricked with a fork and baked about 10 minutes until light golden brown. A cooked prune filling with other key ingredients is spread between the baked layers of Vinarterta dough sections.

FarmLife

Why every gardener should grow some thyme

Plus, a bit about cakes and country music and wild lettuce

By Ted Meseyton July 20, 2022

So how’s everybody out there in Grainews country doing anyhow? Continuing research reminds us that home garden veggies, herbs and flowers, orchards and backyard-grown fruits along with field grains and wild forest plants all contain many powerful disease-inhibiting and healing nutrients. Reaping their protective benefits requires a lifetime of sensible eating and drinking habits while learning […] Read more

Excessive heat warnings (in magenta) and heat advisories (in orange) were in place July 19, 2022 for areas across much of the southern U.S. Plains. (Weather.gov)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Sizzling heat stresses livestock, crops in southern U.S. Plains

By Julie Ingwersen, GFM Network News July 20, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — Scorching temperatures in the southern U.S. Plains are stressing cattle as well as crops such as cotton, corn and soybeans, meteorologists and traders said on Tuesday. Temperatures were forecast to reach 111 F (44 C) in parts of the Texas Panhandle, a core area for cotton and cattle production. While much […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Denmark’s Royal Unibrew to buy Toronto’s Amsterdam Brewery

Brewer seeks new capacity in North America

By Reuters, GFM Network News July 15, 2022

Corrected, July 18 — Copenhagen | Reuters –– Danish brewer and beverage maker Royal Unibrew will acquire Toronto craft brewer Amsterdam Brewery in a deal valued at around 250 million Danish crowns (C$44 million), Royal Unibrew said in a statement on Friday. “The acquisition we are doing today is very important for the future growth […] Read more

Note the position of the original seal before removing it. It will help ensure the replacement is driven into the correct depth on the housing.

Equipment, Machinery

How to properly install a new seal

Tips to help you get the job done right to stop leaks on machinery

By Scott Garvey July 15, 2022

Replacing leaking seals on machines is one of the most common on-farm repairs. It isn’t particularly difficult, but not getting a replacement seal seated correctly means wasted time, effort and money. Here are a few tips to make sure the replacement goes in properly and, most importantly, stops the leak. First, pay attention to where […] Read more

Award-winning Cascadia shows both flowers and forming snap peas. Green edible pods are a nice length, crunchy, sweet and juicy.

FarmLife

Sweet peas, snap peas and shelling peas

Plus, understanding acidity and alkalinity of soil

By Ted Meseyton July 14, 2022

Let’s plant some edible snap peas and shelling peas. Plus — a bit of this and a bit o’ that. Gardeners phone, others write and I always appreciate face-to-face meetings. Here’s one gardener’s experience with Epsom salt. Tells me he sprays tomato and pepper plants at blossoming time with a weak solution of Epsom salt […] Read more

Columns

Bison, buffalo and beefalo

A brief history of the North American bison and how its story almost ended in extinction

By Ieuan Evans July 13, 2022

What’s in a name? The big imposing animals that roamed the North American prairies and northern woodlands were called buffalo. Strictly speaking, buffalo are African and Asian cattle, distinct species from the North American and European animals. Technically and biologically speaking, our buffalo are not buffalo but bison. The North American Plains buffalo is classified […] Read more

A Canada-wide map of drought conditions. Photo credit: Canadian Drought Monitor

Crops, Weather

Drought conditions remain in Alberta, Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News July 13, 2022

MarketsFarm — After copious amounts of precipitation alleviated the most severe drought conditions in Saskatchewan and Alberta, there were still some areas dealing with extreme dryness entering July, according to the Canadian Drought Monitor. At the end of June, only 22 per cent of the Prairie region was classified in the Abnormally Dry (D0) to […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Good weather pushes Alberta harvest along

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