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Reporter's Notebook: Lisa Guenther starts out the new year by giving Grainews readers what they want

By Lisa Guenther February 5, 2016

I’ve decided to start out the New Year by writing at least one Grainews column that is focused on what readers want, rather than whatever is rattling around inside my head. Based on subscriber feedback and our own marketing material, it seems our readers want advice on everything from dealing with gossip to making easy […] Read more

Features

Health care benefits for your farm

Farm Management: Health plans can protect your family and help you attract farm employees

By Dilia Narduzzi February 5, 2016

Most farmer operators assume that health care benefits are only for people with off-farm jobs. Farmers usually pay for their own massage therapy and trips for the dentist. Farm employees aren’t always offered the same benefits they could get from non-farm employers. But, there are health care plan options for farmers. Buying an extended health […] Read more

Columns

Editing transactions with AgExpert: Pt. 2

Even the best bookkeepers don't always get it right the first time. Here's how to fix it

By Kelly Airey February 5, 2016

Getting help with the AgExpert bookkeeping has never been easier. FCC Management Software has provided many new avenues to give you support you need. The AgExpert online community is a way for you to communicate with fellow AgExpert users in discussion boards, chat live with FCC support staff and look up answers to almost any question. […] Read more

Columns, Guarding Wealth

Higher interest, rising bond prices

U.S. interest rates are heading up, and bond prices are rising. Here's why security pays

By Andrew Allentuck February 5, 2016

The ominous Chinese greeting, “may you live in interesting times,” has arrived in Canada. We face declining energy prices that are dragging down the entire economy to nearly zero growth. Canadian stocks are accordingly dismal. Our partner to the south, the U.S., has a soaring currency that will inhibit its exports. As a result, the […] Read more

1. A pair of models added some bling to McCormick’s X8 display during Agritechnica in Hanover, Germany.

Machinery

New X8 tractors from McCormick

Italian manufacturer Argo adds larger tractors to its McCormick brand

By Scott Garvey February 4, 2016

Italian manufacturer Argo has been in the process of updating the models in its McCormick tractor brand for a few years now. Last year it brought the most recent addition to its line, the X7 Series, to North America, and executives promised there was more to come. At the Agritechnica machinery expo in Hanover Germany […] Read more

Michael Hicks first realized he had wild boar on his pasture after setting up a game camera over Thanksgiving. After Hicks shot two of the pigs, the rest scattered. But one pig keeps returning. Hicks thinks it lost its mate after the scramble, and is hoping to reunite. Note the long hair.

Features

Wild boar cause trouble on farms

There are many feral wild boar across the Prairies, but few of us will ever actually see them

By Lisa Guenther February 4, 2016

Michael Hicks likes to talk about wildlife. The Glaslyn-area farmer still chuckles about the time he watched a black bear stand as high as it could on its hind legs, longing for out-of-reach oats in a grain truck. But just after Thanksgiving, Hicks’ game camera recorded something new in his pasture near Thunderchild Reserve, in northwestern […] Read more

An Autonomous Greenbot tractor with attached roto-tiller on display at Agritechnica.

Machinery

Heading toward autonomy

On display at Agritechnica: a driverless Dutch-built tractor hits the market

By Scott Garvey February 1, 2016

General purpose, completely autonomous (driverless) tractors may be the holy grail of farm equipment design. And over the past few years a wide variety of companies have offered farmers enticing glimpses of what the future may hold in that area. There have been a number of limited-use robotic machines introduced to do specific tasks on […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Tim Hortons, Burger King to move toward cage-free eggs

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 1, 2016

The owner of Canadian coffee-and-donut giant Tim Hortons and North America’s No. 2 burger chain, Burger King, has reset its goal to take the chains’ egg supplies “cage-free.” Restaurant Brands International, the parent firm for the two chains since their merger in late 2014, announced Monday it will move to 100 per cent cage-free eggs for […] Read more

FarmLife

Gleanings and goals of young farmers for their future

Eager ag entrepreneurs are looking for ways to improve themselves and their businesses

By Elaine Froese January 29, 2016

In Regina last November, Farm Management Canada hosted the Ag Excellence conference which I was only able to attend via my Twitter feed. I love this group because there is a sea of young eager ag entrepreneurs looking for new ways to improve themselves and their businesses. Advice from young farmers at AgEXCONF 2015 the […] Read more

Columns

Time to distribute the farm assets

Farm Financial Planner: At age 80, Mary wants to pass her wealth on to her family and a favourite charity

By Andrew Allentuck January 29, 2016

As her 80th birthday approaches, a farm widow we’ll call Mary finds herself in a dilemma. Her husband Bob passed away 10 years ago, leaving substantial life insurance benefits which she used to cover living expenses and farm losses. Mary’s 1,280-acre grain farm is rented to tenants. The farm has broken even with recent high […] Read more

U.S. grains: Soybean futures edge up as Argentina ends export tax waiver

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract high, herd falls short of estimates

Eastern wheat to be included in Cereals Canada’s harvest assessment

GFM Network News