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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

Kevin Hursh offers some ideas on how to get more enjoyment and more profit out of your farm lifestyle.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Kevin Hursh asks, ‘Are we having fun yet?’

By Kari Belanger January 31, 2022

It’s hopping at Grainews right now. In January and February, we send six issues of the magazine to print, which is almost a weekly publication schedule. I get a taste of the pace fellow GFM editor Gord Gilmour (Manitoba Co-operator) moves at — it’s a good clip. There are stories to assign, pages to edit, […] Read more

A steel plate set on top of a car tire and rim will hold the spool of barbed wire.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

How to make a handy homemade wire unroller

Some basic materials help take the snarl out of unrolling barbed wire

By Heather Smith Thomas January 28, 2022

When building barbed-wire fence, you need an easy way to unroll the wire spools. Many methods have been used, such as putting the spool on a stationary bar and then pulling the wire along the fence line. People often put a bar or pole across the end of a pickup, putting the roll on it, […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Study finds no data to show change in butter consistency

Not enough data to link to palm supplement use, either

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 22, 2022

Updated, Jan. 24 — A panel tasked with reviewing complaints of changes in Canadian butter’s consistency has found there’s not enough data out there to support those complaints — nor to support the allegation that palm byproducts in cows’ rations were the cause. The Expert Working Group on Feed Supplementation, set up by Dairy Farmers […] Read more

General, Machinery

Farm cybersecurity campaign seeks farmer input

CSKA online survey open until Feb. 18

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, GFM Network News January 21, 2022

Canadian farmers are being asked for their input on a federally-backed project to assess and improve cybersecurity in Canada’s ag sector. The Community Safety Knowledge Alliance, the lead organization on the Cyber Security Capacity in Canadian Agriculture project, has put up a voluntary online survey for farm operators, running until Feb. 18, “to look at […] Read more

The workstation, which has its own dimmable lights, outlets and a Smart TV, seemed excessive at first, but I have used it almost every day since I built it. If you Zoom with me, I’ll likely be sitting on that stool.

Columns

Toban Dyck: A wholesale rebrand of the farm workshop

I’ll quit before I get too close to the sun, but not a moment before that

By Toban Dyck January 20, 2022

I’ve made changes to my workshop, again. If you’ll recall, I spent a large chunk of time at the workshop reorganization project, which I wrote about in excruciating detail last winter. Well. It has resumed. Before I proceed, I just want to thank those of you who took the time to write to me with […] 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

Other crops