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As soil warms up, last year’s herbicide may be present ready to do its weed control job.

Anticipate herbicide damage

After a very dry year followed by a cold winter, watch for residual herbicides

By Ieuan Evans February 7, 2022

Last year, it was very dry over much of the Prairies. Your lower-than-expected yields have got you calculating how much nutrients/fertilizer are left in your grain or oilseed fields. Also to consider is how much herbicide residue is left in some of your fields. What crops do you intend seeding this spring? Canola, perhaps, due […] Read more

Columns

A tax strategy for a retiree who inherits a farm

Farm Financial Planner: Opportunities to make money and save tax

By Andrew Allentuck February 7, 2022

In south-central Manitoba, a man we’ll call Ronnie, 57, lives on a 640-acre farm he inherited from his late parents. He’s never farmed and has no interest in swapping careers from the office work he did before retiring a few years ago. His plan is to sell the farm within three years and build a […] Read more

Production of Ford’s F-150 Lightning pickup at Dearborn, Mich. (Media.ford.com)

General, Machinery, Reuters

Ford to suspend or cut plants’ output on chip shortage

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 5, 2022

San Francisco | Reuters — Ford Motor Co. plans to suspend or cut production at eight of its factories in the U.S., Canada and Mexico throughout next week because of chip supply constraints, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday. The changes come a day after the Detroit automaker warned a chip shortage would lead to […] Read more

File photo of cropland in Greece. (Urbazon/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Markets, Reuters

Greek farmers stage tractor protest against soaring energy costs

By GFM Network News February 4, 2022

Larissa | Reuters — Farmers in central Greece on Friday protested with hundreds of tractors against soaring energy costs, dismissing government support measures as inadequate and demanding more help to cope with rising prices. The farmers parked tractors on a national highway near the town of Larissa in central Greece, where they faced off with […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Corteva CEO bullish on grain, oilseed prices for 2022

By GFM Network News February 4, 2022

Reuters — Corteva expects prices for grains and oilseeds to remain high this year on record demand levels, its CEO said Thursday, following the insecticide and seed company’s upbeat sales outlook a day earlier. Global agriculture demand and prices for crops picked up pace in the fourth quarter of 2021, thanks to economies reopening and […] Read more

Features, News

Be ready for herbicide shortages

If you haven’t lined up products already, be prepared to be flexible and creative

By Lee Hart February 2, 2022

Scott Perkin is ready for the 2022 growing season. Like everyone else, the southwest Manitoba farmer still has the rest of the winter to get through, but at least he has key inputs he’ll need for the coming growing season either on the farm or booked with input suppliers. Perkin, who is part of the […] Read more

A supplied aerial photo of vehicles blocking through traffic on Feb. 1, 2022 at the Canada-U.S. border crossing between Coutts, Alta. and Sweet Grass, Montana. (Photo courtesy Alberta RCMP)

Livestock, Machinery, Markets

Alberta RCMP to start unclogging major border crossing

Blockade 'not a peaceful assembly,' Mounties say

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 1, 2022

A major supply chain corridor connecting Alberta and the U.S. is expected to be cleared of protestors and reopened to traffic on Tuesday, Alberta RCMP have warned. Protestors in vehicles formed a blockade Saturday on Highway 4 leading to the province’s only 24-hour Canada-U.S. border crossing, at Coutts, Alta., about 100 km southeast of Lethbridge. […] Read more

Features, News

Rebate roundup 2022

These cash-back plans can help you get the most for your hard-earned input dollars

By Mark Halsall February 1, 2022

As we all know, farming can be an expensive business. No surprise then when opportunities arise to save some cash on crop inputs, almost any farmer is going to sit up and take notice. With this in mind (in alphabetical order), here’s our annual roundup of rebates available to western Canadian producers for the 2022 […] Read more

File photo of Canpotex potash cars. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Nutrien eyes potash production boost amid turmoil in Russia, Belarus

Idled Saskatchewan mines could be restarted

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News February 1, 2022

Winnipeg | Reuters — Nutrien, the world’s biggest potash miner, could boost production by up to 29 per cent in coming years, depending on any sanctions facing rival producers in Russia and Belarus, the Canadian company’s interim CEO told Reuters. Prices of granular potash fertilizer are near 10-year highs in the United States and Brazil, […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan)

Crops, Markets

Canary seed prices likely to be good in 2022

By GFM Network News January 31, 2022

MarketsFarm — Prices for canary seed spiked to all-time new highs and then pulled well back as the Prairie winter set in, according to David Nobbs of Purely Canada Foods in Saskatoon. Nobbs explained prices were on a rollercoaster in 2021, starting out at around 30 cents per pound only to climb through the 30s […] 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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