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FarmLife, Fruit/Vegetables

Family-run orchard and U-pick operation

Prairie-hardy fruit provides the potential 
for this successful business


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A visit to the Bruno Cherry Festival in 2005 inspired Paul and Jacquie Mitchell to expand their U-pick orchard to include University of Saskatchewan sour cherries and haskap berries. The delicious flavour and the hardiness of the fruit convinced them of its potential. The Mitchells had purchased their farm, located in Eagle Hills south of […] Read more
Stripe rust update: July 24, 2014
Crops, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Stripe rust update: July 24, 2014

Weather providing good infection conditions, but development progressing slowly

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Dr. Denis Gaudet at AAFC-Lethbrige, and his crew, surveyed fourteen winter wheat and 22 spring wheat fields were surveyed for stripe rust in the Lethbridge, Warner, Taber, Forty Mile and Cypress counties of southern Alberta. Regular thunder showers  and cool evening temperatures have provided good infection conditions for development of stripe rust. However, stripe rust […] Read more
Impact of heavy rains on crops
News

Impact of heavy rains on crops

Southern Sask. hit hard by heavy rains over the weekend

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Many parts of southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba experienced heavy rainfall this past weekend. With more rain expected to fall in these areas in the next 24 hours, this will further impact many severely waterlogged fields. Crop Chatter, an agricultural forum for farmers and public and private agronomists, has posted a number of helpful articles and factsheets farmers can download from its website, such as: Seed […] Read more
Columns

Farmland prices and net farm income

Record high land prices are still making the news in Saskatchewan. Will things be different this time?

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Coffee shops and bars have been buzzing for a couple of years now with new record highs for farmland prices and cash rents. This is what you hear: “Farmland is a superb investment and we must get in on the action. Farmland will continue to increase in value — they aren’t making any more of […] Read more
Woman standing in a field of soybeans.
Columns

Soybeans in Saskatchewan

Field notes: At a summer plot tour, Southeast Saskatchewan farmer Bobbie Bratrud took a look at some new varieties and crops that could give her farm a competitive edge

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If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would not only be attending a local plot tour focused on soybeans, but that they would make up 20 per cent of my farm’s acres, I would have never believed you. The changes and advancements in the varieties of crops we can grow here […] Read more

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