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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

About 30,000 visitors, including farmers from across Western Canada, parts of the United States and several other countries are expected for the relaunch of the live Canada’s Farm Show in Regina this June 21-23. There are about 100 acres of outdoor show space at the rebranded REAL District (exhibition grounds) along with about 1.5 million square feet of indoor show space. And don’t be in a hurry as you’ll need time to check out the products and services being presented by more than 500 exhibitors.

Features, Machinery

Canada’s Farm Show live for 2022

All of the popular features and much more will be welcoming visitors in June

By Lee Hart June 16, 2022

Thousands of farmers from across Western Canada and the United States and visitors from around the world are expected to head for Saskatchewan June 21-23, 2022, for the return of the live and in-person Canada’s Farm Show. Known as the Farm Progress Show held at the Regina exhibition grounds for more than 40 years, the […] Read more

Being a quiet old horse Juan the Sailor was an excellent first horse for
Joseph to get use to being in the saddle. Joseph always had good
balance and nothing but confidence around old Juan.

Cattleman’s Corner

The little old horse who never stopped giving

Juan was a companion, a protector, a trainer and a joy

By Heather Eppich June 15, 2022

We first met Juan the Sailor in August 2017. He, his son Juan Peppy Sailor, and a few other horses were being sold at a farm auction in Wilkie, Sask. Juan was a 27-year-old skinny gelding. The rest of the horses were thin as well, but Juan looked the worst. We had decided to buy […] Read more

Pickup trucks roll out of General Motors’ assembly plant at Oshawa, Ont. (Media.gm.ca)

Livestock, Machinery, Markets, Reuters

GM CEO says ‘we are selling every truck we can build’

Rising fuel prices not seen undermining big truck demand, yet

By GFM Network News June 14, 2022

Detroit | Reuters — General Motors CEO Mary Barra said on Monday the automaker is “selling every truck we can build” and expanding North American truck-building capacity, even as U.S. gasoline prices hit record highs. Barra made her comments during the automaker’s annual shareholder meeting. GM is pursuing a two-track strategy: Investing heavily in electric […] Read more

You might as well call it a tree. This is a Palmer amaranth weed discovered
by an agronomist near the southern Manitoba community of Carman. This
monster weed can grow up to seven or eight feet tall in crop and even
taller and wider when allowed to grow without any competition.

Crops, Features

Look out for strange weeds this year

By Jeff Melchior June 13, 2022

Last year’s hot, dry growing season could have yet another unwanted gift for Prairie farmers — weed species where they’ve never seen them before. A leading weed researcher says last year’s conditions — characterized by long-term drought, extremely hot weather and variable, untimely rains — have created a perfect storm for the expansion of some […] Read more

Tim Nerbas of NRG Farms in northwest Saskatchewan, says he usually does a bit of both pre- and post-harvest
treatments on about 4,000 acres of crops, which include wheat, oats, barley, canola, flax and faba beans.

Crops, Features

The best fit for pre- or post-harvest treatments

With erratic growing season conditions producers need to be flexible with fall weed control plans

By Lee Hart June 10, 2022

Farmers Owen Orsak and Tim Nerbas hadn’t got the 2022 crop in the ground yet when they were asked in early May about their fall weed control plans, but the Manitoba and Saskatchewan producers, respectively, say they will apply desiccation and weed control measures on their farms this year depending on weed growth and harvest […] Read more

Daily Network News

OPINION: Understanding how plants pause and restart growth can help develop climate-resilient crops

Moroccan fertilizer maker OCP expects output to drop 30 per cent in Q2, sources say

Feed Grain Weekly: Demand rises despite war uncertainty

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