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Diversification Spells Opportunity For Seed Producer

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Producing a wider range of crops and selling seed in a global market has been the focus of a young southern Alberta farm couple working to keep pace with the ever-changing needs in agriculture. Ryan and Annette Mercer, who operate Mercer Seeds at Lethbridge, Alta., have grown beyond the cereals, flax and canola seed business […] Read more
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Maurers Provide Specialty Products For The World

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Ryan and Lauren Maurer may farm in central Saskatchewan, but a good part of their business focus is on bread in England and beer in Japan. With a land base of 11,000 acres — about 9,500 of that in annual crop production — the Maurers, who farm near Grenfell, east of Regina, on the edge […] Read more
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Keep a close eye on grain dryer temperatures

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If you hold a sample of good-quality, high-protein wheat in one hand and some that has been damaged by excessive heat from a dryer in the other, can you tell the difference? Ed Lysenko, a baking research technician at the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC), says no, that isn’t always possible. Samples sent to the CGC […] Read more
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Employee Relations Key To Dairy Farm Success

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There’s not a lot of standing still at LaBass Holsteins Ltd. Owner Jan Bassa’s philosophy is that if you are standing still, then you are actually going backwards, says his wife, Tracy. Which means keeping an eye to the future is always foremost in the minds of this farming couple, who were recently named 2010 […] Read more
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Farm Forum Asks You To Imagine The Decade Ahead

It’s not often that we run coming event notices in Wheat and Chaff, but after attending last year’s Farm Forum, put on by Agri- Trend Agrology, and being really impressed with the content of the conference, I thought it might be worth sharing the information. Grainewswill be there, so try and find me (Lyndsey) and […] Read more
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Connecting Consumers To The Farm

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In 1981, as a young Steve Cooper helped his brother drag the little red wagon laden with sweet corn to the end of the lane he never dreamt that he would end up as one of Ontario’s Outstanding Young Farmers (OYF). But it was those early experiences of selling the farm produce, that he helped […] Read more
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New Ministry Of Agriculture Scholarships Announced

Saskatchewan’s Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud recently announced the first ever Ministry of Agriculture scholarship program. Bjornerud made the announcement in conjunction with the proclamation of October as Agriculture Month in Saskatchewan. The annual Saskatchewan Agriculture Scholarship will award 10 students $1,000 each. Students in Grade 12 from across the province who are entering agriculture-related post-secondary […] Read more
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Focus On Production Makes More Milk

Although Jean-Franois Lemieux got off to a young and difficult start in life and the dairy farming business, with the support of his siblings and in more recent years his wife, they have gone on to build a successful dairy farm in eastern Quebec. After losing both of his parents before the age of 18, […] Read more
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New Rotary Ditcher Handles Rocky Soil

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After nearly 10 years in development, Manitobabased Dynamic Ditchers Inc. recently put their Wolverine Rotary Ditcher into production. This machine is capable of digging drainage ditches, eliminating the need for heavy-duty scrapers. Instead, the Wolverine acts like a snow blower on steroids. It digs into soil and blows it off to the side, leaving removed […] Read more
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Wheat &Chaff – for Oct. 4, 2010

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13 NEW CEREAL VARIETIES When I first started out as a writer in the agriculture industry I loathed September for one reason — new varieties. Why, you may ask? Well, I won’t bore you with the details, but compiling a comprehensive, useful and complete list of new, commercially available varieties of any crop is a […] Read more

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