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PHOTOS: PHOTO GALLERY: A look back at pickup trucks

How manufacturers tried to convince farmers to buy trucks in the ’60s

By Scott Garvey February 25, 2016

Stacked! Built!” are the first two words in the body of this Mercury Trucks advertisement from the early 1960s. Clearly, they have that nudge-nudge-wink-wink feel to them. I’m pretty sure those terms had the same double entendre meaning back then that they do today. No current marketing manager would ever let that kind of ad […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Coop Federee to offer Olymel stake

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News February 25, 2016

Reuters — Quebec-based La Coop Federee, one of Canada’s biggest farmer co-operatives, is offering for sale up to 49 per cent of pork processor Olymel, to help fund expansion in Western Canada, CEO Gaetan Desroches said in an interview. La Co-op would retain control of Olymel, which along with Maple Leaf Foods is one of […] Read more

The Canadian unveiling of the 2017 Ford Super Duty took place in November at the Canadian Western Agribition in Regina.

Machinery

Ford unveils the 2017 Super Duty

Trailer towing capability is a priority for the brand’s new Super Duty trucks

By Scott Garvey February 24, 2016

Most of the new vehicle introductions in this country have typically taken place at the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto. But Ford didn’t choose to use that venue to unveil its 2017 line of Super Duty trucks. Instead, the brand picked the Canadian Western Agribition in Regina last November to show potential buyers what […] Read more

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Pork market looks to improve by spring

By GFM Network News February 23, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian pork prices are feeling a modest bump upward as healthy U.S. exports clean up some excess North American pork supplies. Canadian slaughter-weight prices hit their lows in November and December — and since then, they have increased about 30 per cent, according to Brad Marceniuk, a livestock economist for Saskatchewan’s agriculture […] Read more

The Silverado is available with three different engine options, a 4.3 V-6 along with 5.3 and 6.2 litre V-8s.

Machinery

A new face for the Silverado 1500

GM gives its Silverado truck a facelift and some digital updates for 2016

By Scott Garvey February 23, 2016

The 2016 Silverado that GM sent to the Canadian Truck King Challenge in October was a preproduction model, so the event judges were among the first Canadians to get behind the wheel of one. Unfortunately because it was a preproduction model, it will soon be crushed; it can’t be sold. That’s a real shame, because […] Read more

These overhead ultra-high frequency transponders can read tags as cattle pass by.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

New RFID tech improves livestock tag readers

New system works at greater distance and can read groups of animals

By Angela Lovell February 22, 2016

Researchers at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary have developed a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system using Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) tags that will make it easier and faster to track and trace cattle at every stage of their movement from the farm to the processing plant. With the new system, animals do not need to go […] Read more

Ford and drone developer DJI are looking to integrate UAV control into a pickup’s digital system for a variety of future applications, including agriculture.

Machinery

A Ford F150 sync’d to your UAV?

Ford issues a new “Drone-to-vehicle developer challenge” to software engineers

By Scott Garvey February 22, 2016

James Bond has his special Aston Martin car complete with ejection seat and all kinds of high-tech gizmos. If Ford has its way, farmers may soon have an F150 pickup at their disposal that would make Q, Bond’s car creator, proud. Ford has been working with drone developer DJI and the two companies have launched […] Read more

Wheat & Chaff

Create safe play areas for kids

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association February 22, 2016

This year, for Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is working towards “Keeping Kids Safe” as a part of the three-year theme of “Be An Ag Safe Family.” Part of keeping kids safe on the farm is creating, using, and maintaining a safe play area. Play teaches children co-operation. Play helps children […] Read more

FarmLife

‘We wish parents understood!’

Many young farmers have some issues they wish the older generation would realize

By Elaine Froese February 19, 2016

We wish parents understood” was part of the Twitter feed from young farmers attending the fabulous AgExcellence Conference 2015, put on by Farm Management Canada in Regina. I was only able to monitor the tweets as I could not physically attend, but this nugget showed up and I’d like to express my take on their comments based […] Read more

Columns, Features

How farmers can up their game

10 ways to run your farm more like a professional business

By Lilian Schaer February 18, 2016

Farming is often described as both a lifestyle and a living. And and although not every farm is a small business, even a small farm is a business. That concept of running a business like a business, though, can often get lost in the day to day management of a farm operation, especially if there […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle markets up ahead of report

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall after Trump-Xi call

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids slightly decline

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle markets up ahead of report

U.S. grains: Soybean futures fall after Trump-Xi call

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Western Canadian bids slightly decline

Other livestock

PHOTOS: PHOTO GALLERY: A look back at pickup trucks

Coop Federee to offer Olymel stake

Ford unveils the 2017 Super Duty

Pork market looks to improve by spring

A new face for the Silverado 1500

New RFID tech improves livestock tag readers

A Ford F150 sync’d to your UAV?

Create safe play areas for kids

‘We wish parents understood!’

How farmers can up their game

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