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Toban Dyck: Get involved in the agricultural sector

Show up for the AGMs for the groups you’re funding. You won’t regret it 

By Toban Dyck March 18, 2019

My room was on the fifth floor. I needed to get there. I was bushed (I sometimes say zonked, but I don’t know if that’s a word my family made up or if it’s in the dictionary). The elevator I needed to take was at the end of a long hallway, then to the right […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Planning for the year ahead

By Leeann Minogue March 6, 2018

In February, Farm Credit Canada’s VP and chief ag economist J.P. Gervais spoke on a webinar about the state of the farm economy. It was hard to find a bright spot. While there are a lot of unknowns around factors like international trade agreements (“We have more questions than answers at this time,” he said), […] Read more

Crops, Features

Most common fertility questions

Rigas Karamonos answers the fertilizer questions he’s hearing from farmers

By Leeann Minogue April 7, 2017

At CropConnect in Manitoba in February, Dr. Rigas Karamanos gave his 868th presentation to farmers. He’s been counting. And, he said, it’s the 35th time he’s been asked to give a talk on “contemporary fertility issues.” He used his time on the CropConnect agenda to talk about the issues he hears farmers raising. Fertilizing for […] Read more

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Is it time to get together?

By Leeann Minogue March 14, 2017

I’ve written in this space several times about the newly formed farm commodity groups that collect levies from us to co-ordinate research and marketing for Prairie crops. We pay levies to organizations for each crop we grow, from canary seed to canola. If this was Iowa and we grew only corn and soybeans, things would […] Read more

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Toban Dyck: Get involved in the agricultural sector

Editor’s Column: Planning for the year ahead

Most common fertility questions

Editor’s Column: Is it time to get together?

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