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As corn acreage expands on the Prairies, there will be a whole new crop that can host fusarium spores.

Still no magic bullet for fusarium head blight

There’s still no cure, but at least there’s no sign of fungicide resistance. Yet

By Leeann Minogue February 10, 2020

“We have no magic bullet.” When Randy Kucher, associate professor at the Crop Development Centre/Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, said that at the beginning of his presentation, the mood in the roomful of CropSphere attendees deflated just a bit. Fusarium head blight has stolen yield from many durum and spring wheat […] Read more

CXN360’s services include all types of grains, including organic commodities.

Crops, Features, Marketing

A new way to sell your grain online

CXN360 connects farmers with commodity buyers online through a membership system

By Leeann Minogue October 3, 2019

Farmers generally sell grain based on personal relationships with buyers, says Mike Witkowicz. “You can manage, at best, probably four to five relationships with grain companies.” The problem with that is that there are more than four or five potential buyers out there. Witkowicz is the vice president of strategy and business development for CXN360, […] Read more

A tethered locust flying in a wind tunnel to test its vision.

Columns, Hart Attacks

Hart Attacks: No end to researcher ingenuity

I think I was sick the day we learned about this stuff in high school 

By Lee Hart May 22, 2019

I am often in awe of the agricultural researchers, which shouldn’t be surprising since I really have no understanding of 99.9999 per cent of what they do, or how they do it. Yet they manage to come up with answers. Recently I was speaking with three researchers in Alberta working to identify and quantify the […] Read more

Columns, Crops

Les Henry: Mourning the loss of the International Plant Nutrition Institute

Information will be lost with the end of this valuable organization

By Les Henry April 25, 2019

To my great disappointment I recently learned of the impending demise of the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), an organization funded by primary producers of fertilizer products. IPNI was involved in a wide array of activities to further the efficient and effective use of fertilizers to keep farms profitable and to feed the people of […] Read more

If we can take it as given that we need to pay more for seed, how should we do it?

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: Adding value to value creation?

By Leeann Minogue April 16, 2019

“Value creation” has been a hot topic at farm meetings this season. It’s been a while since I’ve seen so many farmers so eager to get to a microphone and share an opinion. “Value creation” is one name for the idea of farmers paying more to fund Canadian wheat breeding. The meetings I’ve seen cover […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Trich test — make sure bulls are clean

It’s an important tool for avoiding reproductive problems

By Heather Smith Thomas April 15, 2019

Trichomoniasis is a reproductive disease which results in early pregnancy loss and open cows at the end of the year. The first thing a producer might notice is cows returning to heat when they should be pregnant. This sexually transmitted disease is caused by protozoa that live in the reproductive tract of cows and sheath […] Read more

This is the Birch Hills area as shown by Google Earth on May 10, 2017. The town is in the bottom left area.  Clearly, much of this area is not good land in wet years without some slough consolidation.

Columns

Les Henry: Crop Week offers a good mid-winter break

Saskatoon’s annual winter farm show offers a chance to see old friends and new tech

By Les Henry February 22, 2019

The highlight of cold, dark January is Crop Week/Crop Production Show that takes place in Saskatoon each year. One of the things that takes place during that week is the annual reunion of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Graduates Association (SAGA). The saga of SAGA SAGA formed in 1935 when a few Agros (University of Saskatchewan ag […] Read more

Justin Allport’s operation is based out of his parents’ yard a few miles from his own house, where he lives with his wife Nicole and their two young children, Amara and Emmett.

Features

Meet your farming neighbours: The Allport family

Meet Justin Allport and his family, on their grain farm in west-central Saskatchewan

By Jenny Allport December 10, 2018

Every farm has its own story. No two farms (or farmers) are exactly alike. Everyone got started in a different way, and every farm has a different combination of family and hired staff who make the decisions and keep things running. But, in general, even after you consider all of the details, farmers are more […] Read more

This photo was taken on August 1, 2009. There was great crop growth, from old fashioned methods.

Columns, Crops

Cover crops and green manure

In the Palliser Triangle, cover crops aren’t the answer in a dry cycle

By Les Henry October 10, 2018

The current interest in soil health issues has expanded our thinking and spawned much research and new farm-scale work with many new-to-us plant species. Cover crops are planted in the non-commercial season to add diversity to the mix and juice up the soil organisms that go along with the different plants. In wet years, cover […] Read more

Farmers knowing the facts and understanding the public concerns are two important elements in showing the agriculture industry is doing its best toward proper land  and livestock stewardship.

Cattleman’s Corner, Livestock

Defuse the potential for agriculture ‘Madvocacy’

Public Perception: Even with the facts, sometimes it is important to just listen

By Sean McGrath May 11, 2018

It seems that every day we are inundated with many opinions and ideas on what primary agricultural producers really need to do to improve the environment and serve our many masters. Based strictly on demographics, many of these intentions come from folks with little to no farm involvement or even those with an axe to […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans higher in technical bounce; wheat firms

Bring focused approach to target systems, not producers says animal activist

Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026

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