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

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

ICE March 2022 canola (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines). (Barchart)

Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Choppy canola trade expected

Old-crop 'likely pushing the upper limits'

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News January 20, 2022

MarketsFarm — A speculative selloff weighed heavily on the ICE Futures canola market during the week ended Wednesday, before the selling subsided and prices regained much of their lost ground. “For prices this high, that’s pretty routine stuff,” said Ken Ball of PI Financial in Winnipeg on the $80 per tonne drop in the nearby […] Read more

With dry conditions in southwest Manitoba in 2021, Bill Nicholson harvested a crop that was about a half to two-thirds of a normal yield. He’s expecting it to be another dry growing season in 2022.

Crops, Features

Growers tailor their farm plans for 2022

Farmer Panel: Most are gearing up for dry growing conditions with average yields

By Lee Hart January 18, 2022

After a dry 2021 growing season in most, but not all, parts of Western Canada, farmer panel members for our Jan. 18, 2022, issue of Grainews say they aren’t planning any crazy moves for the coming growing season. However, they will be making some adjustments in fertilizer application rates and crop rotations for 2022, while […] Read more

New posts are in place that will be used to create a fence for new spring pasture land on what once was a hayfield.

Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Best of the season from the Eppich household

Eppich News: Work starts to convert hayfield into a spring pasture

By Heather Eppich January 17, 2022

The end of November and December was a time of fence building for us. We have a quarter section in Landis (about 32 km from our home place) that we have been using as a hayfield since we bought it because there is no water source and only the idea of a fence. This year […] Read more

A combination of high temperatures and low humidity can cause coverage and efficacy issues due to rapid evaporation of spray drops.

Equipment, Features

Use Delta T values for successful spray operations in hot and dry weather

It’s a better indicator than relative humidity for gauging evaporation rate

By Mark Halsall January 17, 2022

In many parts of the Prairies last summer it was hot and exceptionally dry as drought conditions persisted through the season. One of the consequences for farmers was spray operations with pest control applications may have been less effective than usual. Tom Wolf, a sprayer expert and scientist at Agrimetrix Research and Training in Saskatoon, […] Read more

Keefer Terminal (foreground) at the Port of Thunder Bay. (PortOfThunderBay.ca)

Crops

Thunder Bay shipping season wraps up

By GFM Network News January 15, 2022

MarketsFarm — The last vessel of the shipping season will depart the Port of Thunder Bay on Friday. Grain handling volumes were down on the year, but increases in other categories helped limit the overall reduction in movement through the northern Lake Superior port. The 2021 navigation season will come to a close with the […] 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

Other crops