News

If you had shares of Sask Pool from days gone by, you might have sold them at a great loss. You can carry that loss forward, but need to document it and send the numbers to Canada Revenue Agency. Here is how the numbers work in my head: 1) Shares purchased at $12 (1000 shares […] Read more

Prairie flax growers will get a 50 per cent discount on the regular cost of testing their pedigreed and farm-saved seed for Triffid genetics, says the Flax Council of Canada. The council has budgeted $1.5 million to cover half the cost, up to $100, of tests during the 2011-12 crop year to cull the genetically […] Read more

With only months to go before the original Canadian patent on Roundup Ready soybeans expires, the agreements farmers sign before planting this spring will still apply to the crops they harvest. To that end, the Winnipegbased Canadian arm of the patent holder, Monsanto, is “taking additional steps to make sure everyone is aware of what […] Read more

Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and Bayer Crop Science (BCS) recently announced $600,000 worth of funding to Dr. Brian Fowler’s winter wheat research program at the University of Saskatchewan. The funding provides three years of support for Fowler’s quest for new and improved winter wheat varieties specifically adapted to the Canadian Prairies. Varieties from Fowler’s program […] Read more

A biosystems engineering professor with the University of Manitoba expects a collaborative grain storage research agreement involving Canada and China to result in improved market access for Canadian grains in China, according to UniversityNews.Org. The U of M and four institutes in China have partnered in the establishment of a Canada- China research centre for […] Read more

You’ve planned your cropping schedule, your inputs are booked and some are already stored on farm. You’re well into planning for the coming season. But what’s your plan for working safely on the farm this year? There are all sorts of safety checklists and sensible cost-effective suggestions for controlling hazards available online at www.planfarmsafety.ca, but […] Read more