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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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Should You Restructure Your Debt?

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It is stating the obvious to say 2010 has been a tough year for many grain farmers. Unseeded and drowned-out acres, poor grades and reduced yields have all had an impact on production and potential income from the 2010 crop. If you farm in the Peace region, it was nasty drought causing problems instead. Your […] Read more
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Against The Grain: Why We Didn’t Grow Pulses This Year

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There may not be any more important decision on the farm each year than choosing what to plant. Grain prices, agronomic factors and rotation are the key factors, although chasing price trends often wins out. Farmers seem to always want to stick with last year’s home-run money-making crop instead of trying to determine what will […] Read more
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Does A Basis Contract Make Sense In A Rising Market?

Over the course of the upcoming winter, we’ll be running a series of six articles here in Grainewson how to use Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) producer payment options (PPOs). FarmLink Marketing Solutions was asked to provide ideas on how to interpret and maneuver around the various prices and signals that producers face in marketing board […] Read more
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Cosy Up To Your Ag Lender

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If you think your local banker is a fair-weather friend you’re probably right, says a senior lender with Alberta Financial Services Corporation (AFSC). Banks and other lenders are interested in lending money when times are good, and not interested when times are poor, says Denis Cote, senior lending manager with AFSC, an Alberta Crown corporation […] Read more
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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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