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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

File photo of tea plantations in Sri Lanka. (Dmitrii Anikin/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters

Rajapaksa dynasty draws to humiliating close in Sri Lanka

Food shortages, fertilizer ban among flashpoints

By GFM Network News July 13, 2022

Colombo | Reuters — The Rajapaksa dynasty dominated Sri Lankan politics until April when street protests against fuel and food shortages began to slip out of control. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, leaving no one from the once-illustrious family in a position of power. The president vowed last month to stay […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner

How does creep feeding pencil out for 2022?

There may be a profit, but producer needs to decide if it is enough

By Peter Vitti July 12, 2022

Spring calves can be creep-fed in several ways, from home-made grain rations to well-balanced commercial feed pellets. All can be directed into a traditional creep feeding program, which can add extra saleable weaning weight by fall. Unfortunately, this premium growth may not always be nutritionally necessary or profitable. A little homework is necessary to calculate […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

How to safely transport oversized loads

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association July 11, 2022

Driving is something many of us often take for granted. But hitting the road to reach a destination comes with a responsibility towards safety. That’s especially true for oversized farm loads since larger farm equipment means larger transportation challenges. Of course, collisions with other vehicles are a major concern while transporting any farm equipment on […] Read more

Columns

How to make sound purchase decisions: company analysis, Part 2

Another example of stock purchasing decision metrics (that sounds boring!)

By Herman VanGenderen July 8, 2022

The current series of articles were prompted by a couple of emails to further outline the process I use to buy individual companies. So don’t blame me for putting you through this! Hopefully, by the end, you will be able to relate to the small amount of number crunching required to make sound purchase decisions, […] Read more

BASF’s dicamba production facility in Beaumont, Tex. (BASF.com)

Crops, Reuters

Bayer, BASF win new trial on damage award in U.S. dicamba suit

By GFM Network News July 7, 2022

Reuters — Bayer and BASF have won a new trial on US$60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, drifted onto his orchard and harmed his crops. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a federal jury was wrongly told […] 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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