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German cabinet approves legislation to ban glyphosate from 2024

Law would still need parliamentary approval

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 12, 2021

Berlin | Reuters — Farmers in Germany will have to gradually reduce their use of glyphosate and stop using it completely from 2024 in order to preserve clean habitats for insects, under draft legislation passed by the country’s cabinet on Wednesday. “The exit from glyphosate is coming. Conservationists have been working toward this for a […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Cash-strapped pot producers raise billions in market rally

Cannabis firms seen as down in the weeds until recent surge

By GFM Network News February 12, 2021

Reuters — A political shift in the United States has unlocked an estimated US$1.38 billion jackpot for struggling pot producers who have cashed in on a surge in their shares since President Joe Biden’s election in November. Cannabis producers have issued stock worth this amount in the first five weeks of 2021, investment firm Viridian […] Read more

Farm owners and ag producers often miss claiming legitimate farm business expenses. These deductions can include expenses related to maintaining farmland and machinery like property taxes and equipment repairs.

Features

Twelve tax-saving tips for producers

You can take these recommendations to the bank

By Amy O’dell February 11, 2021

Practicing good financial habits now may save you money when the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) comes calling in the spring. Last year, at Ag in Motion Discovery Plus, Carmen Praski, business development representative for Farm Business Consultants (FBC), offered up his top 12 tax-saving tips for agricultural producers. Some you may already have in practice, […] Read more

Columns, Crops

The forgotten plant and animal mineral micronutrients

Ten nutrient minerals essential for plants and animal nutrition

By Ieuan Evans February 10, 2021

How many times have you read about plants needing 16 nutrients for growth? The usual carbon, oxygen and hydrogen as well as the macrominerals nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, calcium and magnesium (N, P, K, S, Ca and Mg, respectively). This is followed by micronutrients such as boron, copper, chloride, manganese, iron, molybdenum and zinc (B, […] Read more

Signage on a Tweed retail outlet in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Reuters

Pot producer Canopy Growth sees profit in 2022

Costs cut, revenue increasing

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 10, 2021

Reuters — Canopy Growth Corp., the world’s largest pot producer, said on Tuesday it expects to turn a profit in the second half of 2022 after aggressive cost-cutting and higher demand for cannabis products helped narrow third-quarter losses. Canadian pot producers have been under pressure from investors seeking returns as profits remain elusive due to […] Read more

Machinery

New ag dozer blade from Brandt

By Scott Garvey February 9, 2021

This fall, Brandt announced it was adding a dozer blade for ag tractors to its product line. “For the agricultural side of Brandt, this is a new product for us,” says Sheldon Gerspacher, vice-president of sales, dealer channel. “It’s a natural fit for us. We’ve been making heavy-duty construction attachments on the construction side at […] Read more

Our “usual” has been rudely interrupted, our connections kept at a distance and change forced upon many of us.

FarmLife

Stress management for uncertain times

Fit to Farm: During these pandemic times many have experienced stress-related symptoms

By Kathlyn Hossack February 9, 2021

Big or small, we’ve all made sacrifices for the collective goal over the past months, and safe to say, experienced some level of stress-related symptom in our physical and emotional bodies. Common signs of stress, uncertainty, and overwhelm manifesting in the body include: Headaches, Fatigue, Malaise, Muscular tension, Stiff joints, Restlessness, Anxiety/depression, Transient moods, Bickering, […] Read more

Students at Lakeland College have hands-on learning in beef production.

Cattleman’s Corner, News

Lakeland College offers technology degree

Alberta college also expands its beef and applied crop research roles

By Lee Hart February 8, 2021

There were two important developments at Alberta’s Lakeland College in January as the 108-year-old agricultural school headquartered at Vermilion announced it will offer Canada’s first degree in agriculture technology starting this fall. And in a second announcement, the college has received nearly $2 million in a grant to expand applied research in pulse crop agronomy […] Read more

Snow on March 28, 2013, at my Dundurn farm. My asparagus patch is between the quonset and the trees. Snow was four to six feet deep.

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: A snow job

Snow as a water source for crops

By Les Henry February 8, 2021

When we made the first-ever Soil Moisture Map in 1978, it was early days in the quest to get rid of as much summerfallow as possible. Those with Henry’s Handbook can check out page 109 to see that first map. The legend has stayed much the same. The objective of the map was to let […] Read more

Farmers arrive with blankets and mattresses for others at the site of a protest against farm laws at Ghaziabad, India on Jan. 29, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Crops, Reuters

UN urges ‘maximum restraint’ as India farm protesters widen blockade

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 6, 2021

Mumbai | Reuters — The United Nations human rights office called on Indian authorities and protesting farmers to exercise “maximum restraint” hours before the growers impose a nationwide road blockade on Saturday seeking a repeal of new agricultural laws. Tens of thousands of farmers have camped out on the outskirts of New Delhi for more […] Read more

GFM Network News

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as U.S. shutdown blocks key crop data

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle rise to new highs on tight supply, strong cash prices

U.S. grains: Soybeans slip on profit-taking, China trade worries

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