The trouble with organic crop insurance, early seeding and what farmers might plant in 2018
Organic farmers and the Manitoba Agricultural Insurance Corporation can agree on one thing: the system isn’t working very well for organic crops. Join this week’s host Robert Arnason who talks with the Manitoba Co-operator’s Alexis Stockford about why. Jeremy Simes of the Western Producer explains new research that could redefine what early seeding looks like on the Prairies and Bruce Burnett, Glacier FarmMedia’s director of weather and markets information is in talk about farmers’ seeding intentions against the backdrop of record global grain stocks.