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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 to 50-bushel or more hybrid canola crop versus a 30-to 35-bushel-per-acre OP canola crop. The cost is justified if they know they can get those high hybrid yields. But if they’re in an area where those yields just aren’t possible most years, then OPs, with their lower yield potential and therefore […] Read more

December 6, 2008 Last night, I received a phone call from George Adams, a cattle feeder in Ontario. George has been a cattle feeder for sometime and he had phoned to tell me about another feeder, Ken Alton, whose health is not good at this time. Both of these men have family operations and have […] Read more

What’s the big deal about composting? Discovering how to grow high quality food, very fast is one answer. I have gardened most of my life, but not until this last year after a Farmer-To-Farmer trip to South Africa did I ever want or see the need to change my ways. Now we are trying to […] Read more

The Government of Canada has once again extended the interest-free period for Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program and AgriStability program overpayments. Interest will not be charged on overpayments until January 1, 2010. More than 6,900 farms still owe money for CAIS overpayments and 200 owe for AgriStability overpayments. Overpayments usually result when interim payments […] Read more

ACI of Jamestown, North Dakota, has three new ATV front mounts for its SnowSport all-terrain plow. These mounts now make the plow compatible with 2008 Arctic Cat 1000 Thundercat, 2008 or ’09 Honda Rancher 420, and ’09 Polaris Sportsman XP 550 and 850. This news in itself is not a big deal, unless you actually […] Read more