Sometimes farmers who want to rent land and landowners looing for good renters have trouble finding each other. Maybe the landowner inherited land, in a place she never lived. Maybe investors bought land in an area where they don’t know any local farmers. Often farmers who would like to rent more land don’t even find […] Read more
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Fight for votes on Weyburn terminal’s fate lands in court
A group of “dissident shareholders,” seeking farmers’votes to head off a sale of southeastern Saskatchewan’s Weyburn Inland Terminal, will continue its campaign after a brief stop in court. With 15 days to go before a meeting at which shareholders will vote on the proposed takeover of WIT by Winnipeg grain firm Parrish and Heimbecker, WIT’s […] Read more
Three ways to lose nitrogen
Nitrogen is essential, expensive and easy to lose. New nitrogen efficiency products are built to offset these causes of nitrogen loss
Nitrogen is essential and expensive. But a good portion of the nitrogen farmers apply to the soil doesn’t get where it’s intended to go. Before the product can get to the plant in a form the plant can use, valuable nitrogen is lost through volatilization (released from the soil into the atmosphere as a gas), […] Read more
Sask. growers eye increased pulse, soybean acres
Having spent the week taking the pulse of Saskatchewan’s grain and oilseed growers, the province’s pea, bean and lentil grower organization expects to see more acres in the province shift this spring to pulses — and to soybeans. “We’re expecting pea and lentil acreage to be up this spring,” Carl Potts, executive director for Saskatchewan […] Read more
Farmers seek to stave off Weyburn Terminal takeover
Eleven southeastern Saskatchewan farmers hope to fend off a planned takeover of a farmer-owned grain terminal by drafting their own ticket for the terminal’s board. More than 200 Weyburn Inland Terminal shareholders gathered Tuesday at McKenna Hall in Weyburn to discuss the proposed takeover of the grain terminal by privately-held grain handler Parrish and Heimbecker. […] Read more
‘Biggest year’ seen for cash advance applications
With rail congestion, jammed elevators and a record-large crop dragging on farmers’ ability to deliver grain, a federal program to help farmers with near-term cash flow is seeing a particularly busy year. Federal ag lender Farm Credit Canada is already urging farmers who haven’t done so to consider applying to the federal Advance Payments Program […] Read more
Minogue: Undercurrent of frustration pervades at CropSphere
Just months after a record-setting harvest, delegates nodded as market analyst Larry Webber told Saskatchewan farmers at CropSphere in Saskatoon, “Everything is not rosy in the country.” Frustration is building as many farmers are taking large price discounts to sell their grain into a congested transportation system and other farmers are unable to sell their […] Read more
Farmer-owned Sask. terminal’s potential sale questioned
Some shareholders and customers of southeastern Saskatchewan’s Weyburn Inland Terminal have joined together to question the potential sale of the farmer-owned facility to outside buyers. WIT on Dec. 13 announced it’s pursuing “expressions of interest” regarding the potential sale of all or part of the Weyburn, Sask. company. “We’re worried about local competition, if the […] Read more
Nitrogen efficiency enhancers
With local production of SuperU about to come on line, Prairie farmers have a longer list of nitrogen enhancing products to evaluate
SuperU, a nitrogen efficiency enhancer, will soon be more readily available in Western Canada. In September, Koch Industries announced that it will begin producing its SuperU at its nitrogen plant in Brandon, Man. Make that one more nitrogen efficiency enhancing product to add to the already confusing list. Nitrogen efficiency enhancers are used to minimize […] Read more
Summer vacation
Finally, our crop is all in the bin. But at the end of October, some of our neighbours in southeast Saskatchewan were still out in their fields, bringing in the last of their late crops, like soybeans, corn, and flax. Showtime Now that harvest is over, it’s time to think about the winter show and […] Read more
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