Features & Production Tips

Musing on going organic

An email from a long-time organic farmer pushes Toban Dyck to wonder if he should try it too

By Toban Dyck January 13, 2015

The scene ends in horror. No matter how many times I replay. Telling the farming community and anyone else who would listen that “I, Toban Dyck, am going organic” is like saying, “thanks for letting me spend a couple years on the family farm; now I’m going to plunge it into bankruptcy,” while wearing a […] Read more

Canola, Features

Ten-year goal aims for dramatic increase in canola yields

The Canola Council wants the average Prairie canola crop to yield 52  bushels per acre by 2025. Here’s how

By Leeann Minogue January 13, 2015

The slogan is “52 by 2025. Keep it coming.” With increasing demand for canola oil and meal, the Canola Council of Canada would like to see higher Canadian production, mainly through increased canola yields. The Council’s target is to increase average Prairie canola yields to 52 bushels per acre by 2025. This would be a […] Read more

Crops, Features

You’re funding crop research

If you’re selling grain in Western Canada, you’re an agricultural research funder

By Leeann Minogue January 12, 2015

Winter is the time to finally read those association newsletters that have been coming in the mail. Or to make time to go to one of their AGMs. There are a lot of AGMs for you to attend. I’ve made a list of the major checkoff-funded organizations in the Prairies. A Saskatchewan farmer could conceivably be […] Read more

Cereals, Features

The wheat and barley checkoff

By Leeann Minogue January 12, 2015

Well, this is new,” you might be saying, if you weren’t really paying attention last year, and suddenly notice there are two deductions instead of just one on the sales ticket for your durum. Well, yes it is. Sort of. You always paid levies to the Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF), to the Canadian International […] Read more

Features

Stamps honoured with Motherwell Award

Richard and Marian Stamp are recognized for their commitment to the agriculture industry

By Lee Hart January 9, 2015

A southern Alberta couple has been recognized with an award for their overall commitment to bettering the agriculture industry, and their ongoing support for an organization that recognizes the achievements of some of the most progressive young farmers in the country. Richard and Marian Stamp, who along with family members operate Stamp Seeds farm at […] Read more

Features

Manitoba and P.E.I. couples are OYFs

Two farm couples are lauded as Canada’s 2014’s Outstanding Young Farmers

By Lee Hart January 6, 2015

Continuing to expand their seed retail business in Manitoba, and building on the partnership they have with other potato growers in Prince Edward Island, are the priorities of the two farm families who were named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers (OYF) for 2014. Myron and Jill Krahn, who operate Krahn Agri Farms Ltd. at Carmen, Man. […] Read more

Features, Practical Tips

Proper planter maintenance for yield increases

Winter is a good time for planter inspections and maintenance, even if your planter is new this year

By Sandy Endicott December 19, 2014

Next year’s corn yields may be the last thing growers want to think about at this time of year, but as the snow begins to fall, it’s the perfect time to make sure you’re getting everything you can from your corn planter come spring. A properly calibrated planter could make a huge difference to your […] Read more

Features

A new business model for precision ag data packages

Farmers Edge CEO Wade Barnes hopes to profit by bringing a bigger data  package to more customers with a new full service, low price model

By Leeann Minogue December 10, 2014

Farmers Edge has cut its per-acre pricing by more than 50 per cent for the 2015 growing season. Last year, farmers paid $8.95 per acre for a full-service package. This year, the price has fallen to $3.95 per acre, and that was lowered by a further 12 per cent for farmers who signed up before […] Read more

Crops, Features

Northgate welcomed as another marketing option

An $80 million grain terminal and rail export service in southern Sask. is expected to encourage all grain companies to sharpen their pencils

By Lee Hart December 9, 2014

Cameron Nordin can’t wait until the first trains start hauling grain and canola out of a new rail terminal at Northgate, Saskatchewan, destined for U.S. markets. Right now, most of the crops from his southeast Saskatchewan farm near Oxbow are trucked about 60 miles east to a Cargill elevator at Elva, Manitoba. He has other […] Read more

Crops, Features

Biochar: Good for the planet and your farm

Biochar, charcoal made from burning organic matter at low temperatures,  could be a way to store CO2 and add nutrients to your soil

By Michael Flood November 28, 2014

By now you’ve heard all about about carbon emissions and climate change. You know that by burning hydrocarbons like oil and coal we humans have been putting CO2 into the atmosphere faster than natural processes can remove it, and that over the rest of this century this will result in more and more extreme weather […] Read more

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Musing on going organic

Ten-year goal aims for dramatic increase in canola yields

You’re funding crop research

The wheat and barley checkoff

Stamps honoured with Motherwell Award

Manitoba and P.E.I. couples are OYFs

Proper planter maintenance for yield increases

A new business model for precision ag data packages

Northgate welcomed as another marketing option

Biochar: Good for the planet and your farm

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