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Opt Out Of CWB Tabled

A southern Ontario Tory MP proposes to allow Prairie wheat and barley growers to “opt out” of the Canadian Wheat Board’s single-desk marketing system for at least two years at a time. Bruce Stanton, the MP for the Orillia-area riding of Simcoe North, recently tabled his own private member’s bill to amend the federal CWB […] Read more
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Concentrated Agrotain Released In Canada

U.S. nitrogen fertilizer maker Agrotain recently rolled out a higher-concentrated liquid version of its Agrotain product for the Canadian agriculture market. The new condensed formulation, dubbed Agrotain Ultra, cuts by 25 per cent the amount of product a farmer must apply, the company says. The new product is expected to make blending “faster and easier […] Read more
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Colony Embraces Sheep Traceability

Being high tech does not necessarily mean being online. It often means finding a way to use technology in a manner that works for your business. This is the case for the Donalda Hutterite colony’s participation in the technologically based Alberta Lamb Traceability Pilot Project (LTPP). “We signed up right away, and it has made […] Read more
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Technologies Worth Looking At

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There is always someone wanting to sell you something whether you farm or ranch or just happen to be a member of society. While every technology is not a fit for every operation, there are some technologies that are probably worth looking at from the perspective of a beef cattle operation. These technologies are many […] Read more
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Nothing Wrong With A Little Humour

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You may have noticed a recent advertising campaign in the farm media by SeedMaster with two guys standing at urinals and a line in the ad copy about “the big companies are watching us, but really why should we care?” Not everyone loves the ad, but I think it is smart. With a bit of […] Read more
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One Smart Cow

Maybe I should rethink that headline, is this one smart cow, or one dumb cow? Regardless, Grainewsmachinery editor Scott Garvey of Saskatchewan sent this photo of one his Texas Longhorns, who may be one magical cow for recently getting inside this bale feeder. Personally I would have trouble crawling in there myself, so I have […] Read more
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The Case Of The Diabetic Heifer

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A rare case of diabetes found in a dairy heifer brought to the University of Calgary veterinary medicine school (UCVM), shouldn’t alarm dairy producers that this is wide-scale animal health risk, but it should underscore the importance of following a proper vaccination program, says a senior instructor. The 19-month-old heifer, which later died and was […] Read more
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Heifers Need Best Nutrition Knowledge/Care

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We’ve all heard good-growing dairy heifers are the future of our milkline, yet once they leave the calf barn, many are put out with dry cows, and if they are housed alone may be fed leftover feed from the milk cows. Such supervision by convenience is not a particularly good idea. Rather, dairy heifers require […] Read more
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Three Strategies For Managing Wet Fields

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Last year’s record rainfall not only stressed the crop and farmers, but it also has an impact on soil. All that water has longer-term implications for fields, as a lot of acres weren’t seeded or, worse yet, were mudded in. Unseeded acres will have very little water used and will have water-soluble nutrients either washed […] Read more
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Wheat &Chaff – for Feb. 14, 2011

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HOW’S THE WEATHER? Someone once told me that talking about the weather means you have nothing else to really talk about. That person was clearly not involved in agriculture. Even in an average year, there’s no greater variable to crop production than the weather. In a year with conditions far outside “normal” ranges, there is […] Read more

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