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What’s Your Farm Safety Plan?

If you’re not planning on preventing injuries, then you’re planning on having them! It’s that simple. So what’s your farm safety plan? “Plan Farm Safety” is the theme of a three-year Canadian agricultural safety campaign. Each aspect of the theme will be promoted over the next three years. This year the campaign is promoting “Plan” […] Read more
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Join Our Panel – for Mar. 8, 2010

Farmers talking to farmers is the purpose behind our “farmer panel.” If you’re interested in taking part and sharing your experiences and ideas with other Grainews readers, please send Lee an email at [email protected] call him at 403-592-1964. Include your hometown, your cell phone and home phone numbers, and a photo of you on the […] Read more
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Farmers in this panel say no-till systems have limits for managing crop residue and excess moisture. Vertical tillage chops up heavy residue and helps dry wet fields

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Soil conservation specialists are not convinced that vertical tillage has widespread application across Western Canada, but three producers contacted for this issue’s Farmer Panel say the tillage system works for them. For one farmer, vertical tillage fits in better with a one-man farming system, for another it helps manage crop residue and warm up the […] Read more
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Chainsaw Tips Scary

Dear Mr. Whetter, I have been an avid reader for over 25 years but Mr. Harder’s article “Tips to buy and use a chainsaw” (page 34, January 25 issue) leaves me with a very bad impression of the care you take to verify an article’s authenticity. It downright scares me that an article with so, […] Read more
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Why Are All Farmers Punished For Triffid?

Some 15 years ago a new GM flax, Triffid, was introduced to the Canadian farmer. The European market rejected this flax, so it was pulled from the market some 10 years ago. Then during the summer of 2009, remnants of this flax were discovered in off-shore deliveries. The result: A shutdown of flax sales accompanied […] Read more
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End Kickstart Subsidy To Elevators

Congratulations to the Producer Car Shippers organization (www.pcsofcan.ca)for exposing the revenue cap formula as nothing more than a money grab from farmers to subsidize the concrete elevators that have been built during the past decade. Ten years ago, the grain companies argued that they needed a kickstart subsidy to ensure the success of their elevator […] Read more
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Auction Mart Not The Only Option

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Cow-calf producers often feel they are at the mercy of the market. Most producers execute the same strategy year after year and feel like they have no choices in marketing or pricing their calves. However, I’ve explained to many ranchers that they actually have the most opportunities and overall time in the beef industry. Cow-calf […] Read more
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Feed Test For Forage Quality

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Nutrient NIRS Wet Chemistry Protein 13.80 13.82 ADF NDF 28.38 50.88 25.57 48.60 Calcium Phosphorus Magnesium Potassium 0.45 0.16 0.38 0.20 0.23 0.12 0.98 0.96 Sodium 0.02 0.02 Many areas of Western Canada have come through a dry summer. Weather conditions have reduced perennial and annual forage production up to 75 percent in some areas […] Read more
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I can barely feel my own pulse, so it is no wonder that I lost track of the ongoing class action lawsuit by producers regarding losses due to the BSE crisis that started in 2003. According to a recent press release, Alberta producers are being asked to attend a noon meeting in Red Deer, March […] Read more
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A rough harvest season has left its mark on 2010 seed lots. Test seed for vigour and disease, not just germination, before it goes in the ground

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Few things are as important as a complete seed test. Home germination tests might save you some cash at the outset, but performance in the field depends on more than just “does the seed sprout?” Lab tests to determine seedling vigour and in-seed pathogens are just as important as a germination test. After last fall’s […] Read more

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