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Four Tips To Get More At The Elevator

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Farmers are good at growing grain, but are they good at working with the people they sell it to? Respect, trust and good communication have a direct bearing on a farm’s bottom line, according to grain buyers. “Building up a trustworthy relationship is where the profitability is,” says Gord Hagstrom, farm marketing rep for Cargill […] Read more
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AgExpert Software Makes GST Filing A Snap

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Most people don’t love keeping the books. Even fewer get all that enthusiastic about a software program. But Rose Graydon is the exception. Farm Credit Canada’s AgExpert software has made her life much easier, and she wants others to know about it. Graydon says she likes working with AgExpert mostly because of its GST calculator, […] Read more
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Cabri District Lions Grow Over $50K For Community

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Last spring the Cabri District Lions were looking for a community fundraiser that could not only raise a significant amount of cash but also tap into their passion. They found it in their Quarter Farm Project. In April 2010 the Lions rented a quarter of land from fellow Lion Bruce Carleton and got to the […] Read more
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Hailed-Out Canola Makes Great Silage

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On July 17, 2009, a hailstorm tore through Clifford Cyre’s promising canola crop and stripped off all the blossoms, causing 100 per cent damage. A few weeks later, the crop was heavily blooming again on his Westlock, Alta., farm. That’s when Loren Koch asked Cyre if he could silage the crop for cattle feed. It […] Read more
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Five Farm Business Management Tips For 2011

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This year marked the expansion of the Syngenta Grower University program with the introduction of Grower U II, an intensive, four-day session in business foundations for alumni of the course. After taking home a wealth of business theory and best practices from their first trip to the Richard Ivey School of Business, based at London, […] Read more
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Patchy Flax Problem Solved

Although farmers are hardly ever thrown by the surprises they sometimes find in their fields, John, who farms southwest of Shoal Lake, Man., was perplexed about the large, bare patches he found in his flax field while on a routine scout. John produces canola, flax, barley and wheat on his 2,500- acre farm. He thought […] Read more
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Did My Neighbour’s Spray Damage My Wheat?

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I was able to help keep the peace between neighbours last June when Dave, who farms 1,500 acres of wheat and canola in Silver Valley, Alta., contacted me about his stressed and dying wheat. “My neighbour sprayed out my wheat,” he told me, “It looks like it’s dying!” Dave thought his field had been victim […] 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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