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A Mexican port-of-entry sign on Highway 92 near Naco, Arizona. (Rex_Wholster/iStock/Getty Images)

CUSMA leaders to discuss agreement during Mexico visit

By Reuters, GFM Network News July 5, 2022

Mexico City | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will discuss terms of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico (CUSMA) agreement, which was ratified in 2018, during a visit to Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday. “We’ll have a summit to discuss terms of the trade agreement treaty… in Mexico,” […] Read more

Ontario-based Salford Group, which builds tillage and application equipment, has been sold to Linamar Corp.

Equipment, Machinery

A new owner for Salford Group

Parts supplier Linamar looks to grow as an ag equipment manufacturer

By Scott Garvey July 4, 2022

Linamar Corp., a company best known for producing parts and components for the auto sector, is making moves to establish itself as a significant player in the ag equipment manufacturing business as an OEM (original equipment manufacturer). In April, it announced it had purchased the Salford Group, a well-known tillage and application equipment manufacturer first […] Read more

The new program aims to help offset some of the costs associated with water management.
Photo: File

General

Sask farmers, ranchers get cash for water management

By GFM Network News June 30, 2022

Saskatchewan farmers and ranchers have $700,000 flowing their way from the Water Security Agency (WSA), in an effort to improve responsible agricultural management projects such as watersheds. The pilot program is being labeled as the Agricultural Water Management Fund. “Effective water management may be one of the most important factors driving Saskatchewan’s growth in the […] Read more

Mature cattle are most likely to experience a magnesium deficiency especially when grazing immature cool-season grasses and lush early growth. They are less able to quickly mobilize magnesium from their bones to meet the body’s needs, and also have a reduced ability to absorb this mineral.

Beef Cattle, Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Grass tetany relates to magnesium deficiency

It goes by many names and has many causes

By Heather Smith Thomas June 30, 2022

Springtime brings risk for metabolic and nervous system problems brought on by acute magnesium deficiency. This condition has been called tetany, grass staggers, milk tetany, lactation tetany, winter tetany, wheat pasture poisoning, crested wheatgrass poisoning, barley poisoning, and perhaps others. It mainly affects mature cattle grazing lush forage and is due to deficiency of magnesium […] Read more

Farmers won’t see the clubroot spores, they won’t know when it’s going to enter their fields or how. However, planting clubroot-resistant varieties offers some protection from clubroot developing in farmers’ fields.

Canola, Crops, Features

Clubroot is everyone’s problem and responsibility

Plant clubroot-resistant varieties even if you don’t have clubroot in your fields

By Madeleine Baerg June 29, 2022

Clubroot was first discovered on canola in Alberta in 2003. Since then, it has spread across the Prairies, affecting many fields in Alberta and staking claim in Saskatchewan and Manitoba too. If you haven’t yet found clubroot in your fields, count yourself lucky — but also actively practice clubroot prevention on your farm. “Prevention is […] Read more

Markets, Reuters

Indigo Ag to roll out first tranche of farm soil carbon credits

By GFM Network News June 29, 2022

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. farm technology firm Indigo Agriculture on Wednesday said its carbon farming program has produced 20,000 tonnes in soil carbon credits that it will sell as emissions offsets to buyers including JPMorgan Chase JPM.N, Barclays BARC.L and The North Face. They are the first agricultural soil carbon credits to be verified […] Read more

Farm Life, FarmLife

Take a spring fling with asparagus

The season is very short so make sure you enjoy some asparagus while it’s here

By dee Hobsbawn-Smith June 27, 2022

This year, May arrived suddenly, without fanfare, but with enough warmth for bare arms. Like many Prairie gardeners relieved to finally — and abruptly — exit winter, I spent the sunny first day of the month cleaning up my garden beds. To my delight, I found furled red knobs in the rhubarb patch, and sprigs […] Read more

Crops, Markets

AAFC ups wheat production, usage numbers; stocks steady

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News June 22, 2022

MarketsFarm — Projected ending stocks of Canada’s major crops were left relatively unchanged in the latest supply/demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released Monday, although there were some revisions to the wheat production and usage numbers. The government agency raised its forecast for total Canadian wheat production in 2022-23 to 33.092 million tonnes, up […] Read more

FarmLife

The power of perspective

By putting yourself in another person’s position you will gain many insights

By Elaine Froese June 20, 2022

One of my favourite Irish sayings is “Every front door looks beautiful!” You never really know what is truly going on in someone’s life until you get to the kitchen table and develop a relationship. The skill to put yourself in someone else’s shoes is called “perspective taking.” Recently during a family meeting as we […] Read more

So far this season there have been no sick calves partly because conditions were dry. The scour “bugs” always seem to thrive in muddy conditions. The calves are old enough now to not be so vulnerable to the serious effects of scours, however; they don’t get as dehydrated as younger calves, and are more able to handle it.

Cattleman’s Corner

Finally some rain to get irrigation started

By Heather Smith Thomas June 17, 2022

April 26 This past week has been cold and windy. The creek is still very low. None of the high snow is melting yet and it may be days before we get more flow in the creek for irrigating. On Thursday, Jim drove to Missoula to pick up his twin sister, Melanie, who flew from […] 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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