Lyle Wiens, who coaches farm families and advises on grain marketing, sees parallels between marketing and farm transition planning — two decision-making areas in which farmers can feel overwhelmed.
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Seven ways to streamline your farm transition
Farm Family Coach: It’s not hard to find parallels between this process and your day-to-day business
New book reveals details leading to CWB’s exit
Lee Hart reviews Culture of Control by Alberta farmer Ken Motiuk
Book review: If you like agriculture and history and wanted to know more about the rise and fall of the Canadian Wheat Board, the new book by former CWB farmer-director Ken Motiuk is a good read.
How to use the tools to build a sound grain marketing plan
Organize your marketing strategies to balance maximizing revenue, ensuring cash flow and limiting risk
This week, we turn to the nuts and bolts of marketing: what options do you have? How do they work? And most importantly, how do they fit into an overall strategy that maximizes opportunity while managing risk?
How your grain marketing plan helps you deal with volatile markets
Predicting how global events will unfold is a struggle for even the most respected grain market observers
Predicting how global events will unfold is a struggle for even the most respected grain market observers.
Corn crop estimates, the old-school way
Apps and satellite services have digitalized the job, but many still prefer to estimate crops up close and personal
Glacier FarmMedia — When it comes to estimating corn crops, Louise Carduner knows there’s an app for that. But she isn’t about to use it. “These are the nicest ears I’ve seen,” Carduner burst out enthusiastically while stripping a fat cob of corn in a field bordering the Red River just north of the U.S. […] Read more
Feeling the pinch
Uncertainty across commodity and input markets creates difficult choices for farmers
Farmers are facing a tight squeeze this fall. Commodity prices are low, and the lower input prices that they’re used to this time of year are not materializing. Keystone Agricultural Producers president Jill Verwey says it’s a tough time for growers. “Being able to make a profit this year is going to be pretty slim,” […] Read more
Would Bunge have to get out of G3?
Good question. While we don’t yet have an answer, the federal Competition Bureau’s recent language suggests Bunge’s continued part-ownership of G3 would be a regulatory sore spot in a merger with Viterra. The basic background: U.S.-based Bunge, the “B” in the “ABCD” group of companies that handle the bulk of global grain trade, last June […] Read more
Bayer’s crop marketing, crop production platforms in sync
FieldView, Combyne platforms now integrated
Combyne, the made-in-Canada grain marketing platform Bayer bought earlier this year, is now fully on speaking terms with the company’s Climate FieldView precision ag platform. Bayer on Oct. 30 announced integration of the two platforms, which it said will allow grain farmers in Canada and the U.S. to connect their marketing data in Combyne and […] Read more
Crop marketing gets personal
Analyzing a world of data to develop a custom-made marketing program
The longstanding western Canadian marketing consultants FarmLink Marketing Solutions has launched a new grain marketing platform for small- and medium-sized farming operations that sets a new standard for the sometimes difficult decisions on when to sell crops. Welcome to GrainFox. Launched in late winter, it is designed to analyze tons of external marketing information, along […] Read more
AUDIO: How weather could shape your grain marketing options in 2023
Some grain farmers have been cautious about forward selling after the drought of 2021 left to them short of the crop needed to fill their contracts and the cost of buying their way out of them soared. MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett says that caution is well advised, given the state of subsoil moisture across the […] Read more
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