An entrepreneurial young grain farming couple from Manitoba and an innovative vegetable producing family from Prince Edward Island are Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2009. Grant and Colleen Dyck of Niverville, Man., who grow grains and oilseeds on their 13,000 acre Artel Farms, and have diversified into other business ventures, along with Greg and Tania […] Read more
Manitoba And PEI Couples Win OYF
What Fix For Beef Industry?
I recently posed the question to readers, “What is the fix for the Canadian beef industry?” and got some good feedback from several producers and industry observers. In short, there doesn’t appear to be any silver bullets that will soon return the industry to improved profitability, but following are thoughts readers had to the above […] Read more
Is A Beefed Up Tracking System Needed?
How important is livestock traceability to you? As a cow/calf producer, auction mart owner, or feedlot owner are you in favour of a mandatory tracking system for livestock at every step from the farm gate through to slaughter? Would you be willing to pay a few cents more per head for this traceability if it […] Read more
Now that’s a good calendar
The year is off to a better start already, compared to 2009. Last year my CaseIH calendar didn’t arrive in the mail until sometime in April (that was for the 2009 calendar year) so it really was too late. I had already found a good calendar to put on the wall above my office phone. […] Read more
More tracking, and are we ready for CDN COOL?
Two questions for producers to ponder. How important is the enhanced traceability of cattle through the production system, to producers? It could be coming along in 2011. And secondly, is it time for COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) in Canada? If you have any thoughts on these two topics, or any other, I would be […] Read more
Outstanding Young Farmers named for 2009
Vegetable producers from P.E.I. farming about 150 acres, and a grain farming couple from Manitoba cropping about 13,000 acres, were named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2009 at the national awards ceremony in Ottawa on Dec. 4. Greg and Tania MacKenzie operated MacKenzie Produce at Stratford, P.E.I., southeast of Charlottetown. Grant and Colleen Dyck grow […] Read more
With a slowdown in the world economy and a drop in the price of steel, this is your chance to negotiate a better price on a new seeding system
It may not be a “buyers’ market” exactly, but any producers thinking about a new seeding system for 2010 will find a better selection and perhaps a few price breaks from machinery dealers this winter. The frenzy that gripped much of the North American machinery industry through part of 2008 and into early 2009 is […] Read more
The Ideal Seeding System
Most of you have a wish list of what you’d like to see in an ideal seeding system. Here are what two producers described as improvements that would make good seeding equipment even better. DWAYNE WOLF WAPELLA, SASK. A seeding system with individual shut offs on each shank leads the list of what Dwayne Wolf […] Read more
What’s New
FRONT-END SHREDDER Crawfords West, based in Camrose, Alta. is introducing a new tool to western Canadian producers, that makes it possible to shred and spread hay and straw bales using a front-end loader. Roto-King, which is a brand name for a line of products manufactured by MDS Manufacturing of Parkston, South Dakota, includes a bale […] Read more
Manitoba and PEI producers named Outstanding Young Farmers
Vegetable producers from P.E.I. farming about 150 acres, and a grain farming couple from Manitoba cropping about 13,000 acres were named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2009 at the national awards ceremony in Ottawa last night. Greg and Tania MacKenzie of Stratford P.E.I., who own MacKenzie Produce and Grant and Colleen Dyck of Niverville, MB […] Read more
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