Articles by Leeann Minogue

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Farm Safety: Keep your kids safe on the farm during Ag Safety Week and all year round

By Leeann Minogue March 16, 2020

Because we have a 13-year-old on our farm who is just learning how to operate machinery, it seems important to take note of Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, March 15 to 21 this year. Farming is a dangerous job for experienced farmers; bringing children and teenagers near the dangerous equipment in our back yard is a […] Read more

Stepping down from this job might give me more time for gardening this summer.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: All good things come to an end

By Leeann Minogue March 13, 2020

Our March 10 issue of Grainews is my last as editor. When I took on this job in November of 2011, I planned to stay for six months. I was covering a maternity leave for the previous editor. I wasn’t fully qualified for the position. I’d never been an editor before, and I didn’t have […] Read more

Features, News

Hiring labour for your farm

Ask the right questions, tell people about the job, and make sure you’re on the same page

By Leeann Minogue March 12, 2020

At the Farm Forum Event in Saskatoon this winter, Leah Knibbs, a human resource management expert from Kn/a HR Consulting, gave farmers some tips on finding and keeping the right farm employee. Knibbs offered several pointers to use during job interviews. “The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour,” she said. When you’re asking […] Read more

Corn, News

A new mode of action coming from Bayer

New MOA may help farmers fight herbicide resistance

By Leeann Minogue March 9, 2020

In a February 13 conference call, Bayer management told ag media about the company’s extensive research and development pipeline. Short-stature corn is in the works — that is, corn plants with shorter stalks, meaning decreased lodging problems and fewer nutrients needed. But for most Prairie farmers, Bayer’s upcoming new herbicide with a brand new mode […] Read more

Consumers are paying closer attention to what they eat.

News

Are you what you eat?

Professor in food distribution and policy says food choices are getting more complicated

By Leeann Minogue March 6, 2020

At CropSphere in Saskatoon in January, Dr. Sylvain Charlebois from the University of Dalhousie talked about food trends at a keynote presentation. “The three-meal institution is dying,” he said. While he does know that people still buy cookbooks, Charlebois sees no signs that people are cooking. However, people are paying more attention to what they […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Get your pea and lentil seed tested

Preliminary testing results show high levels of ascochyta in Saskatchewan’s pea seed

By Leeann Minogue March 4, 2020

Early results are in, and the recommendation is to get your pea and lentil seed to a testing lab, ASAP. At the Top Notch grower meeting in Moose Jaw sponsored by SaskCanola, SaskFlax, and the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, Saskatchewan’s provincial plant pathologist, Barb Ziesman, talked about the preliminary seed test results from Saskatchewan seed tests […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Finding your own path on the farm

By Leeann Minogue February 26, 2020

Over at Country Guide, sister publication to Grainews, editor Tom Button has run a three-part series on women in agriculture, written by Anne Lazurko. This series is getting a lot of online attention, particularly in ag women’s forums. I’m paying attention — not only because I’m a woman on a farm, and not just because […] Read more

Crops, Pulses

Five tips to help get your best pulse crop yields

By Leeann Minogue February 25, 2020

At this year’s CropSphere in Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan Pulse Grower’s agronomy manager, Sherrilyn Phelps, talked to growers about optimizing pea and lentil yields.The biggest factor that determines yield, weather, is out of our control. However, there are some factors we can manage. Phelps’s presentation focused on factors that we can control.For Saskatchewan, the SPG has […] Read more

There are exceptions, but most insecticides are neurotoxins designed to target an insects’ nervous systems.

Features, News

Resistance, Group 4 and neonicotinoids

Saskatchewan pest management specialist updates growers at CropSphere

By Leeann Minogue February 24, 2020

Saskatchewan’s provincial pest management specialist updated growers on the current state of government regulation of neonicotinoids at CropSphere in Saskatoon in January. He began with a review of insecticide modes of action. Just as herbicides are classified into groups according to how they control weeds, insecticides are classified into groups based on how they control insects. […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Don’t get too comfortable

By Leeann Minogue February 19, 2020

Farmers always like to be polite and support each other, but let’s be honest, here. It’s been easy for crop producers to get a little smug and complacent when we consider what’s happening in the meat aisle at the Co-op. There are a lot more plant-based meat “replacements” than there used to be. Sylvain Charlebois, […] Read more

Alberta’s provincial meat inspectors to train for federal duty

COVID-19 and the farm: Stories from the GFM network

ICE weekly outlook: Canola loses strength at midweek

GFM Network News

Alberta’s provincial meat inspectors to train for federal duty

COVID-19 and the farm: Stories from the GFM network

ICE weekly outlook: Canola loses strength at midweek

Author Archives Leeann Minogue

Wait until they’re ready

Editor’s Column: All good things come to an end

Hiring labour for your farm

A new mode of action coming from Bayer

Are you what you eat?

Get your pea and lentil seed tested

Editor’s Column: Finding your own path on the farm

Five tips to help get your best pulse crop yields

Resistance, Group 4 and neonicotinoids

Editor’s Column: Don’t get too comfortable

Grainews blogs

Hopefully canola deal is not an April Fools joke

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Hopefully canola deal is not an April Fools joke

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