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Farmers Edge’s online event on March 3 included a congratulatory note from TMX Group, owner of the TSX. (Farmers Edge video screengrab)

Farmers Edge launches IPO

Digital ag firm makes first public share offering to big demand

By GFM Network News March 3, 2021

Manitoba’s best-known digital agriculture firm is now a publicly-traded company. Farmers Edge, founded in 2005 in Pilot Mound, Man. by agronomists Wade Barnes and Curtis MacKinnon, has carved out a niche using field-centric data, artificial intelligence and its FarmCommand data management platform. CEO Wade Barnes called it an exciting day during an online press conference […] Read more

Farm Life, FarmLife

Froese: Intentional Wealth — and other books to spark conversations

These books are also full of ideas to help manage resources

By Elaine Froese March 3, 2021

I’ve pulled a few books off my library shelves to encourage you this month during the Great Pause to start having more open money conversations. Find an audiobook or borrow these great titles: Smart Money Smart Kids by Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze. As a result of reading this book I’m giving my four-year-old granddaughter […] Read more

A view from Globeways Canada’s office at Mississauga, Ont., from a 2011 video marking the presentation of the Mississauga Board of Trade’s award for Small Business of the Year. (MBOT video screengrab via YouTube)

Crops, Pulses

Pulse packers’ security covers cash owed to farmers

Sales of Globeways plants in Manitoba, Saskatchewan now approved

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News March 3, 2021

More than 50 farmers who were owed money for deliveries to Prairie pulse and special crop processors Canpulse Foods and Global Grain Canada are expected to get what they’re owed, as both companies’ assets move to new ownership. Canpulse, Global Grain Canada and their parent company Globeways Canada went into receivership last Nov. 19, following […] Read more

As a farmer, Cynthia Beck knows first hand about mental health issues, and she is also working as a health care provider to help others who may be going through a tough time.

Cattleman’s Corner, News

Connecting rural communities to mental health

Don’t be afraid to reach out for help

By Heather Smith Thomas March 2, 2021

People in rural communities with limited access to mental health care can use the phone as the first step to reach a crisis intervention program, says Cynthia Beck, a farmer and university student completing her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. She plans to finish graduate school and become a registered clinical psychologist working in rural […] Read more

Horsch has introduced the fourth generation of its Joker high-speed compact disc. It will be available for the 2021 season.

Equipment, Machinery

Updated implements from Summers Manufacturing and Horsch

New vertical tillage and high-speed compact discs hit the market

By Scott Garvey March 2, 2021

Summers Manufacturing of North Dakata has introduced a new version of its Supercoulter vertical tillage tool, the Supercoulter Samurai, which it says was designed in response to customer feedback. It’s based on the same vertical tillage design but moves more dirt than the original Supercoulter. It’s designed for both spring and fall residue management, light […] Read more

Crops, Wheat & Chaff

What to do when unexpected product performance occurs

Q & A with an expert

By Ernie Nycholat March 2, 2021

Q: My chemical did not work. What should I do? A: This is an unfortunate scenario that most growers have likely dealt with at one time or another. After 30 years working as a chemical manufacturer representative or agrologist, I have found there are new issues every year. So, what should growers do to ensure […] Read more

The photo shows NE26 Township 11 Range 11, west of Meridian 1, three miles east of Austin, Man. The soils are of the Almassippi association. The details of individual soils are all available online at Manitoba Agri-Maps at the Agrimaps website (see link at right).

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Nitrate down the well

Quit porking on so much N

By Les Henry March 1, 2021

This song has been sung before in this column. With the death of babies as a possible consequence, it bears repeating. Nitrate in the environment In a native grass environment like my grandfather and yours broke up to farm, nitrate was a rare molecule. Native grass evolved by staying brown and doing nothing when it […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Weather

Grain drying relief moving forward, one way or other

Governing Liberals telegraph plans to introduce their own measure

By GFM Network News February 28, 2021

Despite voting against a bill to exempt certain farm fuels from the carbon tax, the governing federal Liberals say tax relief for grain drying is coming. Conservative MP Philip Lawrence’s private member’s bill C-206, An Act to amend the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (qualifying farming fuel), passed second reading in the House of Commons […] Read more

Columns

Titanium-Strength Portfolio continues to live up to its name

It could also be called the do-nothing portfolio

By Herman VanGenderen February 26, 2021

It has been a little over a month since the turn of the calendar, but I am writing this the day after the Washington siege as my first column of the new year. What other zaniness might occur between day of writing and day of reading remains to be seen, but a constant has been […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

Dairy farmers asked to pass on palm byproducts in rations, for now

Seek out other ingredients while hard-butter issue under review, DFC asks

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 26, 2021

Canadian dairy farmers whose feed rations include supplements made with palm byproducts are being asked to consider other options while consumer complaints over butter are probed more closely. Dairy Farmers of Canada on Thursday asked its farmer members to “consider alternatives to palm supplements” pending the outcome of a review of “issues that have been […] Read more

GFM Network News

Expana lifts EU cereal forecasts, maize exceeds expectations

CFIA says regulatory changes will cut agricultural red tape

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit record high on tight supply, strong cash prices

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