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Klassen: Renewed confidence lifts feeder cattle market

By Jerry Klassen, GFM Network News April 17, 2017

Western Canadian feeder cattle markets traded $3-$5 above week-ago levels on average; stronger buying interest was noted on short-keep cattle with prices quoted $5 to as much as $8 higher. Feedlot operators stepped forward more aggressively with ideas that yearling supplies will dwindle over the next month. Quality cattle are starting to thin out at […] Read more

A rail car from SGCC’s fleet. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Machinery, Pasture, Weather

Saskatchewan budget seen as costly touch for farms

By Leeann Minogue, GFM Network News April 17, 2017

Saskatchewan’s general farm organization is consulting its farmer members on less-discussed features of last month’s provincial budget, while warning them to brace for impact from new budget-related costs. The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan last Monday wrapped up its latest round of spring district meetings, at all six of which APAS general manager Duane Haave […] Read more

This is a narrow-leaved hawk’s beard. While the leaves are slightly lobed, they are narrow.

Crops, Features

Narrow-leaved hawk’s beard travelling

This noxious weed is spreading outside of northwest Sask.  and the Alta. border

By Melanie Epp April 17, 2017

Up until recently, narrow-leaved hawk’s beard was mostly found in northwest Saskatchewan and along the Alberta border. A 2014-15 weed survey has revealed that the weed has spread to areas outside of these traditional hotspots. Identification and control can both be difficult. For this reason, it is advised that growers — especially those who live in non-traditional hotspots — take […] Read more

Syngenta’s Interaction Centre at Stein, Switzerland. (Syngenta.com)

Crops, Reuters

China clears ChemChina’s Syngenta deal

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 12, 2017

Zurich | Reuters — ChemChina’s US$43 billion planned takeover of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta has received approval from China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the two companies said Wednesday. “This represents a further step towards the closing of the transaction, which is expected to take place in the second quarter of 2017,” they said […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery

Manitoba pulls less-loved ag tax credits in budget

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 11, 2017

More funding for agriculture innovation in Manitoba’s latest provincial budget will be offset in part by an immediate end for several of the less popular tax credits available for farm use. Provincial Finance Minister Cameron Friesen on Tuesday laid out a 2017-18 budget with an overall $840 million deficit, based on a four per cent […] Read more

Ian Mitchell-Innes, centre, talks to Manitoba producers about how to use selective grazing to improve  soil health and productivity during a three-day workshop in Manitoba last year.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

The profit potential of selective grazing

High stocking density, short-duration grazing helps put carbon back into the soil

By Angela Lovell April 10, 2017

No matter where he speaks in the world, Ian Mitchell-Innes carries a message to beef producers about achieving optimal animal performance, reducing costs, and ultimately becoming more profitable. Animals instinctively know where they can get the highest level of energy — from the top third of the plant, Mitchell-Innes, a South African rancher, told producers […] Read more

Brandt Industries will buy the Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Canada plant in Saskatoon for an undisclosed sum. (HilcoInd.com)

General, Machinery, Weather

Brandt buys Saskatoon power generating equipment plant

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News April 10, 2017

Tractor and equipment manufacturer Brandt expects to double its manufacturing footprint — and expand into new equipment lines — after closing a deal for a major Saskatchewan plant site specializing in power generation machinery. The Regina-based company on Friday announced it had closed its deal to buy the former Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Canada facility […] Read more

McGrath and helpers dig some soil pits along transect lines on native prairie
pasture that is part of Round Rock Ranching to establish some baselines through nutrient and biological soil testing.

Cattleman’s Corner, Crops

Are you a (soil) health nut?

Any treatments applied above ground will eventually affect what happens below your feet

By Sean McGrath April 6, 2017

I was eternally blessed to enter the University of Saskatchewan while Les Henry was still teaching at a time when we were “forced” to take at least an introductory soil science course. I learned a lot in that introductory course; mostly about how much I didn’t know (and how much Dr. Henry did). But more […] Read more

Palmer amaranth. (United Soybean Board photo)

Corn, Crops, Pasture, Reuters

Minnesota finds source of Palmer amaranth on CRP land

By GFM Network News April 6, 2017

Reuters — An invasive weed likely entered Minnesota through seed planted on land in a U.S. conservation program, state agriculture officials said on Thursday, bringing to a close an official probe of a growing threat to agricultural production. Infestations of the weed, Palmer amaranth, have affected other states in the U.S. Midwest through seed planted […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Reuters

Palmer amaranth threatening U.S. corn fields

By GFM Network News April 5, 2017

Winterset, Iowa | Reuters — A U.S. government program designed to convert farmland to wildlife habitat has triggered the spread of a fast-growing weed that threatens to strangle crops in America’s rural heartland. The weed is hard to kill and, if left unchecked, destroys as much as 91 per cent of corn on infested land, […] Read more

GFM Network News

2025 set to be among hottest years on record: WMO

Nutrien tops profit estimates, launches review of phosphate business

U.S. grains: Soybean prices rise as China-U.S. truce assessed

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