In the exploding world of smartphone apps, Paul Muyres hopes a new Internet web-based service he has developed will help farmers sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to finding agriculture apps that are useful and really do what they’re supposed to do in terms of helping with farm management and crop production. […] Read more
New “apps” website geared for farmers
The ongoing “best beef” research
Who produces the best beef in the world? I am beginning to think that may depend on whose farmyard I am in on any given day. Last summer I was on Vancouver Island and visited Colin and Ross Springford who along with their families run Springford Farm, a commercial Hereford beef operation at Nanoose Bay […] Read more
Great stories about amazing everyday horses
I recently received an email from friends who were letting a small group of us know us that they had put one of their favourite horses down. I don’t get many of those notices, but I understood right away. It’s much the same feeling when someone says they had to put their cat or their […] Read more
Reminder about proper winter feeding
I wrote this reminder on my blog earlier this month, but figured it was worth repeating in print. It is actually three reminders: 1. Make sure you are feeding your cattle properly this winter; 2. If you can’t handle it and feel stressed, there are places to call that can provide help; and 3. If […] Read more
Producer concerned for community pasture future
Saskatchewan rancher Bryce Burnett is urging his fellow producers to get actively involved in the discussion about the future of PFRA community pastures in that province. As the federal government proceeds with plans to wind down the long-standing PFRA community pasture program, Burnett says there are too many unanswered questions,about the future of the 60 […] Read more
Panel optimistic about 2013
While all is looking good for the coming growing season, farmers say they are familiar with the adage “no one ever lost a crop in January”
It may be too wet, or too dry in some regions this winter, but farmers contacted for the early January 2013 Farmer Panel are optimistic about the year ahead. New equipment in the field, changes in rotation, more wheat in rotation and farming more acres, are among the changes farmers have planned for the coming […] Read morePanel optimistic about 2013
While all is looking good for the coming growing season, farmers say they are familiar with the adage “no one ever lost a crop in January”
It may be too wet, or too dry in some regions this winter, but farmers contacted for the early January 2013 Farmer Panel are optimistic about the year ahead. New equipment in the field, changes in rotation, more wheat in rotation and farming more acres, are among the changes farmers have planned for the coming […] Read moreSaskatchewan and Quebec couples win national OYF honors
Young farming couples from Saskatchewan and Quebec have been named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2012
Vance Lester and Susan Echlin, who operate a successful fruit winery near Saskatoon, and Martin Brodeur Choquette and Johanne Cameron, who have built up a flock of 1,200 sheep on their farm near St. Hyacinth, Que., were named winners at the national awards competition held in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Lester and Echlin have been building their […] Read moreNew corn varieties for 2013
The 22 new corn varieties on the market for 2013 offer improved vigor, higher yield, more insect control options, and more
Canadian seed companies are packing many more good features inside bags of seed corn these days. That includes varieties that do well under lower heat unit growing conditions, have improved vigour and higher yield. But there is more. Growers are also starting to see more varieties with dual herbicide resistance — for example varieties that […] Read morePickseed and Wolf Trax partner on improved forage seed
If you are planning to seed forages this spring, the long-established Canadian company Pickseed has teamed up with a Manitoba-based seed nutrition company to supply producers with legume and grass seed genetics that emerge faster with improved vigour. All seeds marketed by Pickseed in 2013 will be treated with a micronutrient product known as Protinus, which was developed […] Read more
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