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Reduce The Cost Of Heat Stress – for Jul. 23, 2010

By Peter Vitti July 23, 2010

Given the relatively cool summers we’ve experienced on the Prairies in the last few years, it hard to believe that parts of Western Canada can easily have weeks of very hot weather until the beginning of September. Unlike most of us, cattle raised on a drylot do not have the luxury to move out from […] Read more

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Five Tips To Get Winter Wheat Right The First Time – for Jul. 23, 2010

By Lyndsey Smith July 23, 2010

Winter wheat may not have the prestige of being a pasta or bread wheat, but its high yield potential and requirement that it be seeded in the fall makes it a good fit in the crop rotation for many farms. Now, with millions of acres unseeded or drowned out in Western Canada, any late summer […] Read more

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Where Do Rebates Come From? – for Jul. 23, 2010

July 23, 2010

It is common practice in a normal competitive business environment to see volume discounts or rebates offered to customers. The savings that these efficiencies generate are often shared between a business and the customer. For example, if a farmer has large hopper bins, a high-capacity auger and easy hauling over good roads to an elevator […] Read more

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Tougher Rules For Fusarium-Infested Wheat – for Jul. 23, 2010

July 23, 2010

August 1 rings in the new crop year and with it comes tightened grading tolerances of fusarium-infested grain. Nearly all western Canadian wheat classes are affected; the only exceptions are Western Red Winter wheat and General Purpose wheat, which are not subject to the restrictions until August 1, 2011. No change in fusarium levels will […] Read more

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Four Tips For Safer Towing – for Jul. 23, 2010

By Ron Settler July 23, 2010

No doubt you’ve become intimately acquainted with your tow rope this spring. Our tow ropes were our constant companions in the trucks and tractors this spring. We use the three-inch flat strap that is rated at 27,000 pounds. They’re 20 feet long and two of them stow easily behind the seat of the tractor. Total […] Read more

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BASF Plant Science And Monsanto Eye Canadian Wheat Market – for Jul. 23, 2010

July 23, 2010

BASF Plant Science and Monsanto Co. have agreed to expand their joint biotech development work into wheat, potentially bringing an “enhanced-yielding” wheat to market — at least 10 years from now. The two companies said in a release recently that they plan to “initially focus on developing biotech products for the North American and Australian […] Read more

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Supervise Kids In A Safe Play Area On The Farm – for Jul. 23, 2010

July 23, 2010

It’s sad but true. Sometimes even those eyes in the back of your head aren’t enough to keep kids safe on the farm. You’re standing right beside them, watching, and then in what seems to be slow motion, they fall, they cut a hand or much worse. And you were supervising! We have to face […] Read more

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Water, Water Almost Everywhere – for Jul. 23, 2010

By Lee Hart July 23, 2010

Talk about disparity. It is truly a feast-or-famine year across Western Canada in terms of how much moisture is out there. Near Tisdale, Sask., where only about 50 per cent of land ever got seeded this spring, just two-tenths of rain, as of late June, immediately turns fields into lakes. And in Manitoba’s Red River […] Read more

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As much as 20 per cent of your crop could be travelling through and then out the back of the combine. Here’s how to measure how much you’re losing

By Scott Garvey June 7, 2010

Have you ever driven down the road and noticed combines working across a field so quickly they would outrun a good jogger? It’s no wonder deer seem to favour these fields later in the fall — harvesting too quickly can blow a surprising amount of grain out the back of a combine. If you feel […] Read more

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4-H Farm Safety Videos Go Viral –Soon!

June 7, 2010

“If it seems like a no-brainer, it probably is!” That’s the shout-out on four new farm safety video PSAs created and performed by a team of Ontario 4-Hers. The 60-second videos feature youth in four different scenarios at home and on the farm. Tammy Oswick-Kearney is communications director for 4-H Ontario. She says she was […] Read more

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Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

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Reduce The Cost Of Heat Stress – for Jul. 23, 2010

Five Tips To Get Winter Wheat Right The First Time – for Jul. 23, 2010

Where Do Rebates Come From? – for Jul. 23, 2010

Tougher Rules For Fusarium-Infested Wheat – for Jul. 23, 2010

Four Tips For Safer Towing – for Jul. 23, 2010

BASF Plant Science And Monsanto Eye Canadian Wheat Market – for Jul. 23, 2010

Supervise Kids In A Safe Play Area On The Farm – for Jul. 23, 2010

Water, Water Almost Everywhere – for Jul. 23, 2010

As much as 20 per cent of your crop could be travelling through and then out the back of the combine. Here’s how to measure how much you’re losing

4-H Farm Safety Videos Go Viral –Soon!

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