Features

OPI-Integris, which 25 years ago brought western Canadian farmers the first temperature sensing cables for monitoring grain condition inside the bin, has this year introduced a monitoring cable that provides a reading of both moisture and temperature of stored crops. The combination OPI-Integris moisture/temperature monitoring cable appears similar and operates similar to the straight temperature […] Read more

Farmers across Western Canada all have different stories to tell for the midsummer Farmer Panel as they talk about plans for harvest and crop storage this fall. All use “wet” to describe the situation at seeding, but details of their current circumstances go from one extreme to the other. An Alberta farmer was looking at […] Read more

Many farmers struggled to get a crop in this spring, and still others were happy to have had winter cereals in rotation to take some of the squeeze off a short seeding season. With wet weather persisting in some areas, the prospect of seeding a wider range of “winter” crops in late summer may have […] Read more

While it is clear the newly elected majority Conservative federal government is proceeding with plans to revamp the Canadian Wheat Board, western farmers contacted for this month’s Farmer Panel are just waiting to see what unfolds. Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz, who was reappointed to that post by Prime Minister Steven Harper following the early May […] Read more

Harvey Aberhart was impressed with how well a Fast Dry grain bin drying system worked last fall and winter on his eastern Saskatchewan farm and he’s even more anxious to see how new moisture-sensing cables now installed in those bins, will improve drying accuracy. He’s planning to add a third Fast Dry bin this fall. […] Read more