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Four steps to a fair land rental agreement

By Angela Lovell January 9, 2017

As land values increase, so do land rental rates, but commodity prices don’t always follow the same trajectory, although input costs might. So how do you come to an arrangement to rent land that is fair and profitable for both parties, because that’s the number one consideration if both want a stable, long-term deal. “Communication […] Read more

Livestock

Taxability to rise on Saskatchewan rangeland

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 28, 2016

The percentage of value (POV) subject to property taxes will be bumped back up on Saskatchewan producers’ rangeland and pasture for the 2017 tax year. Government Relations Minister Donna Harpauer on Monday announced the POV on non-arable (range) land such as pastures will be set via regulatory amendment at 45 per cent, up from 40. […] Read more

Crops, Forages, Weather

Prairie forage crops perk up with precipitation

By GFM Network News June 4, 2016

CNS Canada — It’s been a slow start for forage crops growing across the Prairies, but the much-needed precipitation is better late than never. “The rain has been a huge help,” said Karin Lindquist, forage specialist with Alberta’s Ag-Info Centre in Stettler. “There are still some areas that could use a bit more, but so […] Read more

These Hereford steers on another nearby pasture have plenty of forage, however, the quality over the hot, dry summer is declining.

Cattleman’s Corner, Forages

Grazing challenges in a dry environment

Dung scores and gut fill are important indicators of how cattle are doing

By Kim Nielsen March 29, 2016

When I arrived back in Australia in late October last year, Helen had organized the purchase of some steers and they were happily grazing on our farm and had adjusted well to the electric fence, skim grazing over the new seeding I had seeded earlier in May. October is springtime and the growth was pretty […] Read more

Cow-calf pairs grazing a very productive pasture that has made a tremendous comeback after 14 years of managed grazing.

Cattleman’s Corner, Cow-Calf

Restoring vigour to tired pasture

This planned grazing system appears to be returning about $77 per acre

By Kim Nielsen March 7, 2016

When 4-Clover Ranch, near Rocky Mountain House, Alta. came into existence in 1992, there was one particular pasture close to the farmyard that the previous owner was reluctant to show us. He called it sodbound and needing a good plowing. I hesitated to follow his plowing advice as it had a good southerly slope and […] Read more

Crops, Forages

Ducks Unlimited shifts forage incentive for Manitoba

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News January 29, 2016

A program encouraging Prairie farmers to improve waterfowl habitat by flipping cropland into hayland or pasture will continue the same this spring, except in Manitoba. The DUC/CPS forage program, offered by Ducks Unlimited Canada and Crop Production Services (CPS) Canada, will still see growers in Saskatchewan and Alberta get a rebate of $100 for each […] Read more

Chris Walter, left, Ernie Lange, Graeme Finn of Union Forage and Ed Lange discuss the diverse forage blend grown on the Camrose, Alta. area farm this year.

Cattleman’s Corner, Forages

Yearlings couldn’t keep up to multi-species pasture

By Grainews Staff January 13, 2016

As beef producers are always interested in finding ways to increase forage production and efficiency, the operators at Walter Farms near Camrose, Alta. are testing out an annual forage blend to help increase pasture carrying capacity. Working with Graeme Finn of Union Forages they were impressed with a grass/legume blend called the Peace Diverse Mix. […] Read more

These yearlings, working on their third pass this grazing season through this paddock of brassica, legume and grass forage blend appeared to find all the forage types very palatable.

Cattleman’s Corner

Forage blend really produced the feed

A pasture seed mix with 10 to 12 different forages shone in a somewhat mediocre growing season

By Lee Hart December 18, 2015

For the beef handlers at Walter Farms in central Alberta it was actually a good sign — a neighbour called one day to alert them to the fact the cows were in a field of canola or corn or some type of good-looking cash crop. While the neighbour’s concern was appreciated, the cowmen weren’t worried. […] Read more

Getting ready to disc the 80-acre section that the previous renter ripped with spikes, which only scratched the surface and made it rough (and located a few rocks).

Columns, Crops

New farmer breaks new ground. What a wild ride

The first step in the process was a pretty rough ride

By Toban Dyck December 3, 2015

Riding an angry bull is probably worse. It has to be. But, they don’t have to stay on for 120 acres. I did. I held on with both hands, and around corners would bounce out of my seat. It was the roughest tractor ride of my life. The tab that allows the driver to fill […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Pastureland gets prepped for crops

With the help of a kind couple, Toban Dyck is investing in 120 acres of new-to-him land

By Toban Dyck November 10, 2015

What was at first a distant possibility, a fragile idea, discussed over scotch and left to simmer has become something much more. It’s now real. It is as real as a custom applicator killing the pasture grass. It is as real as me looking for a disk to break the ground before it freezes. It […] Read more

Daily Network News

India, Japan canola crops to be steady in 2026/27 – USDA

ICE Weekly: Trade waits for canola to break out

Advance Payments Program interest free limit set at $250,000 for 2026

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