Insights and Stories on General

Jul. 29, 2011 at 3:26 pm CDT

The Canadian Wheat Board has asked the federal government to pay “hundreds of millions of dollars” in penalties for cancelled grain contracts and other expenses that it says would arise if it shuts down next year when its marketing monopoly ends. If Ottawa removes the board’s monopoly to buy and […]

By Rod Nickel

Jul. 29, 2011 at 3:17 pm CDT

Saskatchewan livestock producers continue to make good haying progress and now have 73 per cent of the hay crop cut. Fifty one per cent of the hay crop has been baled or put into silage according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report. Haying progress varies across the province, ranging from […]

By Saskatchewan Agriculture

Jul. 29, 2011 at 3:03 pm CDT

Crop conditions are varied across Alberta, although the overall picture is looking good with no real significant areas of concern, according to a provincial specialist. “The crops are variable, some are right on-time and some are late,” said Neil Whatley, crop specialist with the Alberta Ag Info Centre. He said heat […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Jul. 28, 2011 at 4:26 pm CDT

In a back corner of the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm here is a nursery of what most farmers would consider butt-ugly plants with spindly stems, tiny seeds, and weedy characteristics. But they might just be the salvation of grain farming if the impact of climate change falls hard on […]

By Laura Rance-Unger

Jul. 28, 2011 at 4:06 pm CDT

City folks like that new-car smell, but for farmers, it’s the aroma of a new pickup that has the most appeal, and some of our writers recently had the opportunity to sniff around some new offerings. Ford was somehow able to pry away Manitoba Co-operator editor Laura Rance from her […]