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Some new crops fit a rotation like a glove, and others could take several years of on-farm trials to determine if they are worth growing

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Don’t be afraid to ask questions. That might be the most important first step if you have plans to introduce a new crop into your rotation. Ask the seed companies, ask extension specialists and ask other farmers who have grown the crop for their advice and experience, say farmers who participated in this month’s panel. […] Read more
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Corn Grazing In The North

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Sam King isn’t your conventional Canadian cattle rancher. He doesn’t make hay, he doesn’t use a straw bale, and he never checks a cow during calving season. And he grows corn year after year far north of the 49th parallel. For King, it has to be simple, efficient and cost effective. Cattle aren’t worth more. […] Read more
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The Runaway Stage

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If ever there was a suspicious story, thought the insurance adjuster… Walter (an alias) loved his new truck. It was a bright red, half-ton rig. When he drove it down to the Sikeston rodeo grounds, he made a point to park it at the far end of the arena away from the general parking area. […] Read more
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Who’s Is Making Money On Beef?

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They are still not giving beef away in my local grocery stores, or pork for that matter, and yet the producers in both these sectors seem to have a chronic struggle to make a profit. What’s wrong with this picture? If it is not the rancher, then who is making money in the beef industry? […] Read more
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Beef Ranch Diversifies To Sheep

The concept of diversification on the farm has been around almost as long as the profession itself. Given the cyclical nature of many commodity prices, land and resource maximization are crucial parts of a good agricultural business. Often when the price of one commodity is down, another is up. For livestock operations, lamb can be […] Read more
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Economics Support Sheep

With the economy slowly turning around, agriculture remains a growth industry. For those interested in entering agriculture, especially livestock, lamb production makes good business sense. “The low cost of entry and relatively fast expansion from the base flock are advantages for new entrants,” says Margaret Cook, Executive Director with the Alberta Lamb Producers (ALP). “Lamb […] Read more
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Feed For Thought

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Through much of the prairies and the rest of the country this fall and winter there has been a tremendous feed crunch. Some areas have been able to produce and sell excess feed, but often feed price and trucking costs prohibit the efficacy of this solution. A lot of cows have moved to locations with […] Read more
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2010 –Good, Bad, And The Ugly

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So it’s a new year and the optimists that still have cattle are thinking this will be the year!!! Last I checked, there were still a few cows in our back-40 — so I guess we must be one of those optimists. Not that I am a market analyst, but here are my two bits […] Read more
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Yes, you can replace your auger with a pneumatic grain vac. With a vac like that, you can also turn over a bin of canola all in one go without using a truck

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Jason Finnie of Portage la Prairie, Man., uses a grain vac to put wheat and oats into a 90-foot Harvestore silo. His is a Thor Conveyair model, which vacuums grain up then blows it out with air pressure. Finnie connects his vac to a six-inch air-sealed pipe permanently fixed to the side of the silo. […] Read more

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