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Polar vortex redux? U.S. forecasters say it could hit next week

By GFM Network News December 8, 2016

Chicago | Reuters –– Forecasters are sending chills down some spines with a prediction that much of the northern half of the U.S. could see frigid weather next week similar to life-threatening lows the polar vortex brought to parts of the country in 2014. Anticipation of a freezing blast began to build this week when […] Read more

On display during Canada's Farm Progress Show, Diamond Industries of B.C. showed one of their standard, 10-foot workbenches and wall shelving units.

Machinery

Ready-to-install workbenches

Canadian firm offers standard or customized workshop benches and shelves

By Scott Garvey December 7, 2016

It goes without saying, every farm workshop needs a good workbench with lots of counter space to mount vices and work on repairs. You could spend several days building a customized bench and storage shelves to fit a shop and save a few bucks. That’s a great option if you have the time, tools and […] Read more

Operating on their own, autonomous tractors are getting set to take the ag equipment market by storm.

Machinery, News

Rise of the ag-robots

Two major brands will soon be ready to introduce autonomous tractors

By Scott Garvey December 6, 2016

The sight of Case IH’s 400-horsepower robotic Magnum tractor built without an operator’s station at the U.S. Farm Progress Show in August had show goers talking — and talking, and talking. There was a virtual non-stop crowd of onlookers around it from the time the show gates in Boone, Iowa, opened in the morning until […] Read more

Columns

Farm Financial Planner: Switching up a succession plan

When children change their minds, parents revise their farm succession plans

By Andrew Allentuck December 5, 2016

Central Manitoba farmers Lloyd, 59, and his wife Ellie, 58, have been running their grain farm for four decades. With 1,920 acres of land they own personally and 960 acres in their farming corporation and reasonably up to date machinery owned by the corporation, they face the common problem of generational succession. They have two […] Read more

Choose a good cut of beef such as tenderloin or flat iron steak (see recipe further down).

Farm Life, FarmLife

Well done, medium, rare or… raw?

Prairie Palate: Steak Carpaccio

By Amy Jo Ehman December 2, 2016

My friend Joanne said she would not eat raw lamb, and that was fine with me. So while everyone else at the table made adventurous forays to try the lamb, she watched bemused. When they liked it, she looked puzzled. And when the bowl was almost empty, she finally picked up a piece of pita […] Read more

Features

What’s affecting land rental rates

The farmland rental market can respond to a lot of different market factors

By Angela Lovell December 1, 2016

When the value of land goes up it tends to affect land rental prices too, but it’s not the only factor that has seen land rents increase over the past few years — in some areas quite dramatically. Productivity of the land is also hugely important, as is the amount of competition for land in […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Canada again declares as avian flu-free

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 30, 2016

With an Ontario duck farm depopulated and disinfected, and no new outbreaks in the three following months, Canada has again declared itself free of notifiable avian flu. The federal government announced Wednesday it has informed the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that Ontario is considered free of avian influenza as per OIE guidelines. About […] Read more

Livestock

Taxability to rise on Saskatchewan rangeland

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 28, 2016

The percentage of value (POV) subject to property taxes will be bumped back up on Saskatchewan producers’ rangeland and pasture for the 2017 tax year. Government Relations Minister Donna Harpauer on Monday announced the POV on non-arable (range) land such as pastures will be set via regulatory amendment at 45 per cent, up from 40. […] Read more

Alison Anderson, the director of Succession Matching.

Farm Life, FarmLife

How to find a successor for your farm

If you don’t have anyone interested in taking over the farm  Succession Matching may be able to help

By Elaine Froese November 25, 2016

It often happens at my succession communication seminars that a weary farmer approaches me with a problem. “Elaine, we don’t have a successor for our farm.” The look of worry and wear on their face makes me want to just sit and listen to their story. When I spoke in Biggar, Saskatchewan a few years […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Federal Tories, NDP press for TB quarantine compensation

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 24, 2016

Under pressure in the Commons Tuesday, the federal government has committed to “look into options” to compensate Alberta and Saskatchewan producers having to feed cattle they’re prohibited from selling. Federal Conservative and NDP agriculture critics David Anderson and Ruth Ellen Brosseau separately took the government to task this week over the costs producers have to […] Read more

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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