Few Are Serious About Supporting The Small Family Farm

Leo Hofer, who along with his wife Lorraine ranch near Meadow Lake, Sask., says while there is lots of talk about supporting smaller family farms and keeping people on the land, there is little political and economic will in the country to keep smaller farms operating. Hofer, who has born and raised at Goodsoil, Sask., […] Read more

A Few Tips On Bovine Thinking

HERD MANAGEMENT A cow herd’s social structure is admirably efficient and once established is generally firm until one or more members are permanently removed or a new animal is introduced. Regrettably the only way such pecking order can be established is through fighting, and if such entanglements come late in gestation there is always potential […] Read more


Mineral Bioavailability Is Key

Simply feeding diets containing a high level of essential trace minerals to dairy cattle does not necessarily guarantee their mineral requirements are met in today’s high-performance environment. Rather, trace minerals with greater bioavailability might be fed on the milkline, drylot or even replacement heifer pens, so the benefits of their greater nutrient value are received […] Read more

Wheat &Chaff – for Apr. 4, 2011

THE VALUE OF TECHNOLOGY The world can really knock you down if you let it. As I write this, a near blizzard is raging out my door (and it’s late March, for crying out loud) adding insult to injury on our already snow-laden fields; the fallout and devastation from Japan’s earthquake is all over the […] Read more


Make Canada FarmSafe Your Health And Safety Plan

Canadian Agricultural Safety Week is over. In case you missed the hype, the dates were March 13 to 19 and you can catch the excitement and stories at www.planfarmsafety.ca. You guessed it — the messages this year was to zero in on farm safety plans and how to create and work with them. Why? Because […] Read more

Correction – for Apr. 4, 2011

In the March 14, 2011 issue ofGrainews,Garry Hnatowich was identified as a senior research agronomist with Novozymes in the article “ProTec Seed Coating Saves a Step at Seeding.” He is no longer with the company. In addition, the article failed to list third-party testing of ProTec, which has been carried out at the Universities of […] Read more


Triton C Registered For Use On All Feed And Malt Barley.

DuPont Triton C herbicide is now registered for all barley varieties, providing farmers wide-spectrum broadleaf weed control to help them produce high-quality feed barley or earn premiums for higher-value malt barley. Triton C controls a unique spectrum of weeds, including 24 different broadleaf weeds. It’s well known among farmers for control of cleavers as well […] Read more

Nozzle Colour And Flow Rate Confusion

Questions about nozzle colour coding have arisen from the nozzle selection story featured on the cover of the February 28 issue ofGrainews. The reference in the story about colour coding was not referring to the colour of nozzle tips, but a new colour-coding system tip manufacturers are using in spray tip catalogues to highlight the […] Read more


Naked Oats Get Canned

Campbell’s Canada’s launch of a new canned meal product containing naked oats is pure vindication for a farmer from Manitoba’s Interlake who invested years promoting the variety as an important new crop. The Canadian food company recently announced the launch of Nourish, a 425-gram meal-in-a-can product which, in addition to two servings of vegetables and […] Read more

Roll Out Those Sloughs

John Keer farms near Strathmore, Alta., and sent along this tip for other farmers who may be facing wet conditions in their fields this spring. “While rolling rocks in our fields with the four-wheel- drive tractor and 45-foot roller, I found that I could roll the water out of a slough successfully before the frost […] Read more


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