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Pulses Need More Than Inoculant

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Western Canadian crop production is all about nitrogen, right? Well, yes and no. Nitrogen is largely the most limiting nutrient for crop production here and is applied in the greatest amounts, yes, but a farmer would be very unwise to under-value a plant’s access to the proper levels of other macro and micronutrients. That, for […] Read more
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Lessons Of The 2010 Season

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hether growing conditions were too wet or too dry, the 2010 season taught Prairie farmers some valuable lessons about crop production and management, according to farmers contacted for the December Farmer Panel. Their advice? Follow proper seeding practices, pay attention to varieties, try to be as timely as possible in the use of crop protection […] Read more
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Strong Oat Prices Could Disappear Quickly

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Despite what has been one of the most challenging years for oat growers in recent memory, the outlook for those farmers who were able to harvest a near-normal oat crop are positive, if not great. Serious seeding delays across much of the western Canadian cropping belt this past spring resulted in a significant loss of […] Read more
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Pea Prices Vulnerable, Green Lentils Could Find Support

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Every year has its own set of weather challenges, but 2010 has been more difficult than most, especially for those growing pulse crops. The wet weather that began and ended the season limited yields and reduced the quality of the crop. But rather than spend time looking back at a year many farmers would rather […] Read more
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China’s Influence On The Canola Market

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During the course of any given day, I get questions on price outlook for any number of commodities: canola and wheat are the obvious biggies, but also oats, barley, flax, peas, etc. And while I could talk on and on about individual commodity fundamentals, quite frankly during these days of heightened grain market volatility that […] Read more
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Cautious Optimism For Wheat And Barley

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Giving an outlook on the grain markets in this environment is like giving a weather forecast. We can get fairly close a week out but long range it seems like we have about a 10 per cent chance of being right. Of course, that doesn’t stop us from being able to look at the situation, […] Read more
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Should We Be Fertilizing Deeper?

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I like to think of myself as an “out of the box” thinker. Nothing pleases me more than “connecting dots” that, at first glance, appear to be unrelated. At our 2009 Agri-Trend Farm Forum Event in Saskatoon, I attended a fascinating session on controlled traffic farming in Australia and during this presentation, I had an […] Read more
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Top Four Grain-Marketing Tips

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Farmers are masters of coaxing extra bushels out of every acre they have, and most would like to do the same with coaxing extra dollars and cents out of that production. The fact remains that marketing is part knowledge, part startegy and part luck. Unfortunately, it seems many rely too heavily on the luck aspect […] Read more
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How Volatile Currencies Affect Grain Prices

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Every day in currency markets around the world traders measure the value of different currencies against each other. The action is heated as different economic factors come together to make one currency’s value rise and the other fall. In Canada, these currency fluctuations manifest themselves in the agricultural cash prices received by farmers. The challenge […] Read more

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