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Ed and Barb have focused their lives and finances on the farm. They have only $50,000 in their Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP). Most of the retirement income is going to have to come from Ernie when he takes over the farm.
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Manitoba grain farmers find a way forward

Legacy is preserved and provisions made for non-farming children

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In southern Manitoba, a couple we’ll call Ed and Barb, both 64, farm 900 acres of grain with some beef cattle. They have a son Ernie who is 40 years old. He farms and wants to take over Ed and Barb’s spread when they retire. A daughter, 38, who is married to another farmer, could […] Read more
The Co-op Ethanol Complex at Belle Plaine, Sask. (FCL.crs)
Cereals, Corn, Crops, Machinery, Weather

Co-op to capture carbon at ethanol plant, refinery

FCL, Whitecap sign agreement to sequester fuel plants' CO2

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A major Prairie ethanol and fuel producer is posed to spend just over half a billion dollars on a system to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from its operations in Saskatchewan. Federated Co-operatives announced Thursday it had signed a memo of understanding with Calgary-based ‘clean energy’ company Whitecap Resources, in which the latter company will […] Read more
File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

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New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs and delays amid booming shipping […] Read more
Lynne Schoenau beside a front-end loader depositing a bucket full of topsoil taken from a slough onto a Rebuilding Productivity in Eroded Knolls research plot in May 2020.
Crops, Features

Move soil to where it’s needed most

Landscape restoration can restore productivity on eroded knolls and hilltops

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You could say it’s an old idea that’s new again. The idea is taking topsoil from where it has accumulated in low areas and putting it on badly eroded knolls or hilltops to increase the productivity of a field. University of Manitoba soil scientist David Lobb maintains that’s something farmers in hilly regions of China […] Read more
Sneezeweed is one of the best perennials to extend flowering season well into fall. Clumps of sneezeweed make excellent additions to yard and wildlife gardens where they can attract large numbers of beneficial insect and bird populations.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Get to know sneezeweed and betony

Singing Gardener: Plus, some recipes and ideas to help get rid of moles

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In this article for Grainews I’ll introduce an autumn-flowering Prairie-hardy perennial that’s commonly known as sneezeweed. You may wish to start some from seed next spring. Have you heard of betony (Stachys officinalis)? Got a boss or co-worker who gives you a headache? (Just kidding of course!) In case your headache is from some other source, […] Read more
Should you till after a drought?
Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Should you till after a drought?

Q & A with an expert

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Q: What factors should be considered with fall tillage following a drought? A: Fall work might include tillage operations for fertilizer and herbicide applications. Other tillage operations might include vertical tillage for residue management and tillage to break up surface compaction. The question after a drought is, “Should I till?”  Many parts of Western Canada […] Read more
ICE November 2021 canola (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (yellow line) and CBOT December 2021 soyoil (green line, left column). (Barchart)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola rally keeps going

Not yet back at $1K, but it's possible

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MarketsFarm — With good gains from other edible oils, canola has remained on the rise so far during the week of Oct. 18. It’s uncertain as to how much longer the rally could press on, but analyst David Derwin of PI Financial in Winnipeg said canola punching through $1,000 per tonne again is possible. “Never […] Read more
File photo of a soybean plantation in Brazil. (Mailson Pignata/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Reuters

More acres seen needed worldwide to meet mounting crops demand

U.S. acres may have already hit ceiling: AgResource chief

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Geneva | Reuters — Farmers need more space to grow crops to meet mounting demand for food and renewable fuel at a time of slowing growth in yields, consultancy AgResource said on Tuesday. A renewable fuel push under U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate agenda is set to trigger a boom in soyoil use, reinforcing a […] Read more
No-till or zero-till systems are generally viewed as the best prevention against tillage, wind and water erosion.
Crops, Features

How to protect and save your topsoil

Erosion can be a problem even in zero-till fields. Here are some strategies to stop soil loss

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Tillage and not wind or water is the biggest source of soil loss on farmers’ fields. David Lobb, a soil scientist at the University of Manitoba, says for decades people mistakenly thought the eroded knolls or hilltops in fields were caused mostly by wind. “What causes the severe soil loss on hilltops is tillage erosion, […] Read more

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