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Rod Lanier (l) will be growing hemp again on his farm near Lethbridge. Jeff and Ebony Prosko (r), who farm in Rose Valley, are contracting a helicopter service for fungicide applications this year.
Crops, Features

Farmers just waiting on weather

The farmers surveyed for this Farmer Panel are ready to hit the field for spring seeding

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Farmers in Manitoba were waiting for the snow to stop, a producer in central Saskatchewan was probably a month away from getting to fieldwork and in southern Alberta a producer was planning to start seeding durum in a few days (and some of his colleagues already had seed in the ground). That’s just how variable […] Read more
Fenugreek (shown) is used as both a culinary and medicinal herb and is a common ingredient in Indian food.
Crops, Features

Should I grow the latest new crop?

Angela Lovell asks the experts whether or not getting in on a hot new trend is a good idea

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Niger, quinoa, fenugreek. These are just a few of the new crops starting to appear on a very small number of acres across Western Canada, but the biggest question farmers should be asking about them is — who’s going to buy them? “With any new crop, farmers should make sure they’re not listening to marketing […] Read more
(Jennifer Blair photo)
Crops

Red tape seen costing hemp growers market share

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CNS Canada — Canadian hemp producers are missing out on a potential billion-dollar market opportunity due to government regulations, an industry group warns. Canadian hemp farmers are only permitted to use certain parts, the stalk and seeds, of the plants they grow. As a result, the growers are missing out in the market, said Kim […] Read more
(HempTrade.ca)
Crops, Markets

Prairie hemp acres reaching plateau

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CNS Canada — Hemp continues to draw interest as an alternative cropping option in Western Canada, but its slow pace in moving toward deregulation may be limiting the upside acreage potential. Early expectations are for planted area of about 100,000 acres this year, which would be slightly above what was seeded in 2014 and a […] Read more
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Crops, Features

New special crops round-up

Hemp, quinoa, fababeans, camelina, hairy vetch, carinata and guar bean. Get the inside scoop

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Some farmers love growing the latest “new” crop. Others drive by them in their neighbours’ fields and wonder what they are. There is no definitive list of “special” crops. Many crops we think of as “new” are actually very old. Some that are “special” in one area are standard in another. This is not an […] Read more
hemp plants
Columns, Crops

Farm reporting ain’t easy

Reporter's Notebook: More information about hemp to add to what appeared in a previous article, 
and a trip to a conference in Manitoba to learn more about grain transportation

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There is a whiff of shame that wafts from journalists after they’ve found out corrections are needed to a published piece. Despite our best intentions, fact-checking processes, and diligent editors, mistakes sometimes slip by us. Take an article I wrote on growing hemp a few months ago. I spoke to, and referenced material from, several […] Read more
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Crops, Features

Growing interest in growing hemp crops

Interest in hemp is on the rise. Some see it as a money making alternate crop

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In 2013, over 66,000 acres were licensed to cultivate hemp, a nearly 10-fold increase from 2003, according to the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance. “It’s a crop that there’s growing interest in it. Especially as canola’s starting to slump so bad,” says Harry Brook, crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. But farmers can’t throw […] Read more

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