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Farm Financial Planner: Building up those off-farm assets

With a big farm and few takers from the next generation, a couple focuses on off-farm assets

By Andrew Allentuck May 12, 2016

On a 4,000 acre farm in southWestern Manitoba, a couple we’ll call Herb, 56, and Lorie, 45, grow grains and raise 600 head of cattle. They have been successful over the years with Herb and his brother buying the family farm in equal shares. That buyout provided Herb’s parents with a retirement income and gave […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

U.S. asked to seize Bundy cattle to protect tortoises

By GFM Network News May 11, 2016

Reuters –– Environmental groups have asked the U.S. government to seize hundreds of jailed militant rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle, saying unregulated grazing of his herd on public lands in Nevada threatens habitat for federally protected desert tortoises. The request from nine organizations in a letter sent on Monday to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management […] Read more

John Deere’s new small-frame G Series skid steer loaders offer new features and span the 51 to 65 horsepower range.

Machinery

New skid steers from John Deere

By Scott Garvey May 11, 2016

According to John Deere, its new, small-frame G Series skid steer loaders were “several years in the making and designed with customer feedback.” Introduced in early February, the one-tracked and four-wheeled models were built to appeal to customers in several different industry segments, including agriculture. The series includes three vertical lift and two radial lift […] Read more

GM will offer a retrofit camera package for 2014 to 2016 Silverado trucks to make trailer towing easier and safer.

Machinery

GM offers retrofit trailering options

Rear view cameras and hitch packages available for 2014-2016 Silverado

By Scott Garvey May 10, 2016

Farm pickups usually see their fair share of road miles with a trailer in tow, especially those owned by mixed farmers who almost always have a livestock trailer. This year the major pickup truck brands seem to be vying for attention from those who pull trailers by offering increasingly better option packages. When Ford introduced […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery, Weather

Farming uses exempt from Alberta off-roading ban

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 7, 2016

Alberta’s new provincewide ban on recreational use of off-highway vehicles (OHVs) in provincial parks and on other public lands won’t apply to their use in farm work. The provincial government announced the temporary OHV ban Friday as “another tool… to help prevent the spread of wildfires,” on top of Thursday’s provincewide fire ban and its […] Read more

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, shown here Sunday at Day of Unity celebrations in Astana, announced a cabinet shuffle Friday in response to rare public protests against farmland ownership reforms. (Akorda.kz)

Crops, Reuters

Kazakh president meets farmland protests with reshuffle

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 6, 2016

Astana | Reuters — Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, facing opposition calls for a demonstration in the business centre Almaty, completed a government reshuffle initiated this week in response to street protests against farmland privatisation plans. Economy minister Yerbolat Dosayev and agriculture minister Asylzhan Mamytbekov, whose ministries were behind the planned land reform, both resigned after […] Read more

(Government of Prince Edward Island via Flickr)

Livestock

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News May 4, 2016

Relying until now on the services of the Atlantic Veterinary College, Prince Edward Island’s government has named a new in-house provincial veterinarian. The province on Tuesday named Dr. Carolyn Sanford to fill the post, in which she’ll oversee policy and regulatory issues related to animal health and welfare, including livestock and poultry as well as […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Maple Leaf dishes up first-quarter profit

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 4, 2016

Reuters — Canadian meat processor Maple Leaf Foods reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by higher earnings in its prepared meats business. Adjusted operating earnings in the meat products segment rose nearly eight-fold to $61.3 million in the Toronto company’s first quarter, helped by lower operating costs and price increases. The company, whose brands include […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Kazakh leader evokes Ukraine as land protests spread

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 2, 2016

Almaty | Reuters –– Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, facing a growing wave of protests against planned changes to land ownership, evoked the image of war-torn Ukraine on Sunday as he called for national unity. Speaking at an event in Almaty to mark the annual May 1 Unity Day celebrations, Nazarbayev highlighted Ukraine, where street protests […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Cuba backtracks on food reforms as conservatives resist change

By GFM Network News April 30, 2016

Havana | Reuters –– Cuba decided at a secretive Communist Party congress last week to reverse market reforms in food distribution and pricing, according to reports in official media, reflecting tensions within the party about the pace of economic change. President Raul Castro unveiled an ambitious market reform agenda in one of the world’s last […] Read more

Daily Network News

Deere settles U.S. right-to-repair lawsuit with $99 million fund, repair commitments

Klassen: Negative margins weigh on Western feeder cattle market

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

Other livestock

Farm Financial Planner: Building up those off-farm assets

U.S. asked to seize Bundy cattle to protect tortoises

New skid steers from John Deere

GM offers retrofit trailering options

Farming uses exempt from Alberta off-roading ban

Kazakh president meets farmland protests with reshuffle

P.E.I. brings provincial vet job in-house

Maple Leaf dishes up first-quarter profit

Kazakh leader evokes Ukraine as land protests spread

Cuba backtracks on food reforms as conservatives resist change

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