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installing tile drainage in a field
Columns, Crops

Understanding farm water issues

Water: it’s necessary for life. But add the word “drainage” and it can also start fights

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Corn prices. Why am I getting emails with those words in the subject line? Why does Gmail’s spam filter let that slip by? I’ve been telling people for a couple years now that I farm. To border guards and others who’d trust or like me more if I worked with my hands, I am a […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets

Que. complying with, appealing AIT ruling on edible oil products

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Quebec has amended its rules on sales of vegetable oil-based dairy products, but is still appealing the ruling that led to the amendments, the Saskatchewan government reports. Amendments to Quebec’s Food Products Act last week have loosened laws that have effectively banned sales in Quebec of edible oil dairy substitutes, such as some margarines and […] Read more
view from a plane
Crops, Features

Northgate welcomed as another marketing option

An $80 million grain terminal and rail export service in southern Sask. is expected to encourage all grain companies to sharpen their pencils

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Cameron Nordin can’t wait until the first trains start hauling grain and canola out of a new rail terminal at Northgate, Saskatchewan, destined for U.S. markets. Right now, most of the crops from his southeast Saskatchewan farm near Oxbow are trucked about 60 miles east to a Cargill elevator at Elva, Manitoba. He has other […] Read more
germinated wheat seeds
Cereals, Crops

High fusarium levels in southeast Sask.

If your elevator agents tells you you’re seed has low fusarium level, take it to the lab anyway

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Bonnie Ernst, owner and operator of Prairie Diagnostic Seed Lab at Weyburn, Sask., says she’s been seeing much higher levels of fusarium than usual this year. In wheat, “this year the total is averaging around 14 per cent. The per cent graminearum in that is averaging around 10 per cent.” This preliminary southeast Saskatchewan snapshot […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Sask. to raise brand inspection, registration fees

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The new not-for-profit agency running Saskatchewan’s brand inspection, registry and livestock dealer licensing services is set to boost its fees in the new year. Livestock Services Corp. of Saskatchewan (LSS) will raise its brand inspection fee by 75 cents per animal effective Jan. 2, to $2.75. LSS’ fee for registering or renewing a brand will […] Read more
hemp plants
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
man standing in a wheat field while talking on a microphone
Crops, Features

A short history of durum wheat breeding

As private companies step up cereal breeding investments, 
Andrea Hilderman reviews our public breeding triumphs

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Dr. Ron DePauw has been actively involved in the breeding program at the Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre (SPARC) in Swift Current, Saskatchewan for many decades. Over the years DePauw has led diverse teams that have made extraordinary leaps forward in the agronomic and end-use qualities of durum for Western Canada. Durum team leaders have […] Read more
The Ivey family of Evergreen Cattle Co. will represent Saskatchewan at Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers national awards program in Quebec City later this month. Above are Aaron and Adrienne Ivey with their children Colton, seven, and Noelle, nine, with trusted family member, Ben, in the middle.
Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf, Livestock

Focusing on strengths such as beef and grass

Saskatchewan: Aaron and Adrienne Ivey’s focus on their cow-calf 
operation has taken them to the top

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Aaron and Adrienne Ivey say it is important that they concentrate on the strengths of their east-central Saskatchewan ranching operation. Producing beef and grass is the core business on their ranch near Ituna, Sask. northeast of Regina. They seed some annual crops to accommodate pasture and hay land rotation, and while they background their calves […] Read more
corn field
Corn, Crops, Features

Corn could be your 2015 cash crop

If you thought you lived on the fringe of the corn-growing area, 
it may be time to take a look at today’s varieties

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Farmers in Alberta are planting more and more corn. From 5,000 acres in 1990 the area under cultivation has expanded to over 40,000 in 2014. Alberta agriculture professionals expect this trend to continue, driven by increased demand from domestic livestock producers. Though corn requires high inputs, it can produce very high per acre yields, and […] Read more
Crops

Sask. to review liquor retailing system

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A plan for public consultations on the future of liquor retailing is included in the Saskatchewan government’s speech from the throne. Premier Brad Wall’s throne speech, delivered Wednesday by Lt.-Gov. Vaughn Schofield, reiterated previous statements that the Saskatchewan Party government “will not spend one more taxpayers’ dollar building liquor stores.” New liquor stores in the […] Read more

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