Lyle Wiens, who coaches farm families and advises on grain marketing, sees parallels between marketing and farm transition planning — two decision-making areas in which farmers can feel overwhelmed.
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Seven ways to streamline your farm transition
Farm Family Coach: It’s not hard to find parallels between this process and your day-to-day business
Feeder cattle market has run its course
The Markets: Numerous signs point to the run of profitability for cattle feeders hitting its end
Numerous signs point to the run of profitability for cattle feeders hitting its end, says analyst Jerry Klassen.
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Closing market update for Oct. 21, 2025
Canola futures were steady on Tuesday, while U.S. grains and oilseeds were mostly lower. Here’s Adam Peleshaty of the Western Producer Markets Desk with your Oct. 21 closing grain and oilseed market update.
Researchers chase resistance to bacterial leaf streak in Prairie cereals
With symptoms that mimic tan spot and rust, BLS often goes unnoticed
Bacterial leaf streak is re-emerging in cereal crops on Canada’s Prairies. With no fungicides or resistant varieties available, researchers are testing genes for future control of the crop disease.
Could John Deere have imagined what his company has become today?
A look into the brand’s own archives shows its corporate history
Let’s ask the company’s own archivist: would John Deere, the man, be surprised to learn his eponymous field plow company is now a global corporation with around US$30 billion in annual turnover?
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AgCanadaTV: Your Agriculture News Recap for Oct. 17, 2025
U.S. bill could keep out Canadian truck drivers A bill tabled in the U.S. house of representatives this month would keep illegal immigrants and “ineligible foreign nationals” from driving commercial trucks. Canadian truckers are currently on the list of drivers who’d be banned. Texas republican Beth Van Duyne said the law, if passed, would end […] Read more
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Closing market update for Oct. 17, 2025
Canola futures traded to both sides of unchanged on Friday, with prices mixed at the final bell. While optimism over trade talks with China provided early support, the tariffs remain in place, and no resolution to the dispute is expected any time soon. Soybean, corn and wheat futures in the U.S. were all higher. Here’s […] Read more
U.S. bill could keep out Canadian truckers
Member of Congress tables bill that could prevent Canadian drivers from operating commercial trucks in U.S.
The Protecting America’s Roads Act, which was tabled in the U.S. House of Representatives at the beginning of October, would “rid the country of illegal immigrant commercial truck drivers and ineligible foreign nationals.”
The issue with scar tissue
Fit to Farm: Left to form unattended, a scar may inhibit your range of motion
Without a healthy amount of movement, friction and influence during the healing process, scar tissue may later disrupt how the body moves around it, so maintenance is needed as soon as an incision or wound heals over, Kathlyn Hossack writes.
Bioreactors in tiled fields could themselves benefit from draining
Bioreactors are meant to filter nitrogen from tile water to help with runoff nutrient loads, but drying them out from time to time might increase their effectiveness
Bioreactors are meant to filter nitrogen from tile water and reduce extra nutrient running off int0 local rivers and lakes, but drying them out from time to time might increase their effectiveness.
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