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Hormel Foods, the makers of Spam canned lunch meat, introduced its Sir Can-a-Lot character in 2012. The use of the term “spam” to describe unwanted email is believed to be derived less from the product itself and more from a 1970 comedy sketch about Spam by British comedy troupe Monty Python. (Store.Spam.com)

CASL Defenses, Part 2: The ifs, ands and buts of new anti-spam legislation

By GFM Network News June 26, 2014

It’s July 2 — the day after Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) came into effect. You’ve just started a new job. Your predecessor left behind a binder containing the business cards of clients. You start your day by sending out emails to the addresses on those cards to introduce yourself and to ask if you can […] Read more

General, Machinery

CASL Defenses, Part 3: Anti-spam law touches off ironic flurry of email

By GFM Network News June 26, 2014

If you are weary of receiving requests to stay on or get on mailing lists from Canadian companies, don’t worry – it should stop in a few days. In fact, it must stop by July 1, because after that, companies that send emails asking for your express consent to receive emails, newsletters and other commercial […] Read more

The windshield frame on Project CJ3A had a surprise for us we hadn’t noticed, a bullet hole that had to be repaired before the part could be painted.

Machinery

How to fix a bullet hole

We encounter still more unusual damage as we work on our long-term Jeep restoration project

June 25, 2014

Working through the rebuild phase of Project CJ3A, our on-going Jeep restoration series, we keep finding unexpected problems. After uncovering all kinds of unusual damage, we’ve found ourselves repeatedly asking, “How the heck could that have happened”. Much of it seemed to be the result of abuse and previous sub-standard mechanical repairs. This time as we […] Read more

Machinery

What the judges thought

Finalists have been chosen for the All-Time Favourite Machine competition

By Scott Garvey June 24, 2014

Nominations have closed on the Farmer’s All-Time Favourite Machine competition. Your submissions were handed over to the judges, who were charged with the task of selecting three finalists in each category. Picking those finalists was no easy task. We said at the start of this competition that the judges would take a few of things into account […] Read more

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BNSF, CP ordered to report U.S. grain shipping plans

By GFM Network News June 24, 2014

Reuters — U.S. officials ordered BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) to report by Friday their plans to clear a backlog of grain cars after months of service delays blamed on harsh winter weather and high freight demand. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board decision filed late last week also ordered that the two class […] Read more

CWB is offering $17.4 million for western Saskatchewan’s Great Sandhills Terminal. (GST.ca)

Crops, Machinery, Markets

CWB makes bid for independent SW Sask. grain handler

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 24, 2014

Shareholders in southwestern Saskatchewan’s Great Sandhills Terminal are expected to meet this summer to consider a $17.4 million offer from the grain firm formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board. CWB on Monday announced an all-cash $581.98 per share offer for all shares in the independent firm, which operates an high-throughput inland grain terminal on […] Read more

Seed grower Harvey Gjesdal, shown here in an undated Grainews file photo, created and patented the Gjesdal “Five-in-One” rotary seed cleaner, among several other inventions.

Crops, Machinery

Prairie seed grower and inventor Harvey Gjesdal, 92

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 23, 2014

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Birch Hills, Sask. for farm equipment inventor, seed grower and long-time Grainews columnist Harvey Gjesdal. Gjesdal, who died Friday at Birch Hills at age 92, was prominent for decades among Prairie farmers, in part for patents on equipment still in widespread use today, including the Gjesdal “Five-in-One” rotary […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Arbitrator sets out labour deal for CN conductors

By GFM Network News June 20, 2014

Updated, June 23, 2014 — Binding terms are now in place for a few years’ labour peace between Canadian National Railway (CN) and its conductors and yardpeople. CN announced Friday it has received, and will “immediately” start carrying out, the decisions made by federally-appointed arbitrator Michel Picher. Picher’s rulings are binding on the company and on […] Read more

Machinery

How to install an 855 Cummins in a Series II Versatile

Herb Hallman of Fosston, Saskatchewan, wrote to tell us how he re-powered his 700 Versatile with an updated 855 Cummins. Here’s what he had to say

By Herb Hallman June 19, 2014

The writing was on the wall in 2006. We knew we probably wouldn’t be seeding in the spring if we didn’t get a four-wheel drive tractor. At the salvage yard we ran back then we had a nice, clean, low-hour Versatile 700, Series II that needed a new engine. We decided to install a new […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Machinery

New clubroot pathotype confirmed, can stump resistant canolas

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News June 18, 2014

A second round of tests on a clubroot pathotype found in the Edmonton area confirms it’s a new type that can beat canola varieties bred for clubroot resistance. “This is a different pathotype that none of the commercially available clubroot-resistant varieties in Western Canada are effective at managing,” plant pathologist Stephen Strelkov of the University […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit contract highs on tight supply

U.S. grains: Soybeans tumble on doubts over U.S.-China trade progress

Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

Machinery

CASL Defenses, Part 2: The ifs, ands and buts of new anti-spam legislation

CASL Defenses, Part 3: Anti-spam law touches off ironic flurry of email

How to fix a bullet hole

What the judges thought

BNSF, CP ordered to report U.S. grain shipping plans

CWB makes bid for independent SW Sask. grain handler

Prairie seed grower and inventor Harvey Gjesdal, 92

Arbitrator sets out labour deal for CN conductors

How to install an 855 Cummins in a Series II Versatile

New clubroot pathotype confirmed, can stump resistant canolas

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