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Putting farm safety into practice every day

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association May 5, 2017

For Dave Brand, safety is a core belief that’s evident not only in the way he talks but also in how he runs his farming operation. Brand, the newest member of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association’s (CASA) board of directors, farms not far from Red Deer, Alta, where he, his fiancée and their four kids […] Read more

Two-wheel drive tractors with 116 to 145 horsepower  get added to Case IH’s Maxxum line this year.

Machinery

Case IH brings back two-wheel drive Maxxums

By Scott Garvey May 4, 2017

Following the lead of its sister brand New Holland, Case IH announced it is bringing back two-wheel drive tractors to the high end of its utility class models this year. The brand will offer buyers a choice of Maxxum tractors in the lower-cost two-wheel drive configuration with horsepower ranging from 116 to 145. “By popular […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Pacific trade pact nations meet to discuss future without U.S.

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 2, 2017

Ottawa | Reuters — Negotiators from the remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) gathered in Canada on Tuesday seeking ways to boost free trade in the region after the U.S. pulled out of the 12-nation pact. The withdrawal killed off years of negotiations and left the region looking for ways to deepen economic ties […] Read more

Columns, Guarding Wealth

Guarding Wealth: Keeping your financial portfolio stable

How much risk do you want in your portfolio, and will risk bring you higher returns?

By Andrew Allentuck May 1, 2017

Choosing stocks and bonds is in some ways like picking the petals off a daisy. The choice: will it be regular income or capital gains (hopefully)? Some investment assets pay regular income. In this category are conventional bonds that promise annual or semi-annual interest payments and dividend-paying stocks that make no firm promises but that […] Read more

Columns

Working with all types of people in ag

Reporter's Notebook: Most people in the ag industry are great to work with. But harassment still happens

By Lisa Guenther May 1, 2017

Talk to a few people in the agriculture industry, and you’ll likely hear something like this: Agriculture is a great field to work in, largely because there are so many good people in the industry. I think about this a lot. Is it true? In what way is it true? Is agriculture different than other […] Read more

Lining up the beneficial beetles from an insect trap. These are melanarius beetles, which belong to the carabid, or ground beetle, family.  Ground beetles prey on pest insects.

Crops, Features

Want to know which bugs are in your field? Try traps

Trapping beneficial beetles can help you see just what’s living on your land

By Lisa Guenther April 28, 2017

Wondering what types of beneficial insects you have beetling around your fields? Try a ground trap. “It’s nice to know that you’ve got some good guys in there that are eating the bad guys,” said Patty Reid, a research tech with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. There isn’t an economic threshold for beneficial insects such as […] Read more

Relays use an internal electromagnet to turn on and off the flow of electricity.

Machinery

How to check for a faulty relay

If a component isn’t working, is the relay to blame? Here’s how to check

By Scott Garvey April 27, 2017

Many electrical components in a vehicle or machine are controlled by a relay. So if a component isn’t working because electricity isn’t getting to it, there is a possibility the relay may be faulty. But determining whether or not a relay is defective requires a little basic investigation. Here’s how to go about it. First, […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Producing clean bison genetics

New ‘washing’ techniques could benefit cattle industry as well

By Angela Lovell April 26, 2017

Genetic research in wood bison may have wider implications for wildlife conservation and for the Canadian livestock industry. Scientists have developed tools using assisted reproductive technologies such as cryopreservation (freezing), artificial insemination (AI) and embryo transfer which could help increase dwindling wild bison populations and prevent the spread of disease. Canadian wood bison is an […] Read more

Reuters

Tyson Foods beefs up prepared foods with AdvancePierre buy

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 25, 2017

Reuters – Tyson Foods Inc, the No. 1 U.S. meat processor, said on Tuesday it would buy packaged sandwich supplier AdvancePierre Foods Holdings Inc for about $3.2 billion in cash, to expand its fast-growing portfolio of prepared food brands. Demand for meat-based snacks has been growing as Americans shun candy and overly processed foods. This […] Read more

Crops, Livestock

OPR threatened, organic industry officials say

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 24, 2017

The organic industry is mounting a protest against pending changes for its Organic Products Regulation (OPR) that it says has potential to “undo the entire Canadian organic supply chain.” In 2012, the passage of the Safe Foods for Canadians Act resulted in a number of regulations, including the OPR, being combined into a single document […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn backs away from gains at close

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking pressures cattle futures

Government to invest in biofuel production

GFM Network News