I was in Ontario this week and while driving between Palmerston and London I noticed very quickly the corn that has been left in the field over the winter. I am not sure how many acres are still out there but there were several fields along the highway that looked very much like the picture... Read More
Category: Crops
The supply demand report was released this week in the United States. The result has been a new found bullish feeling in regards to the corn market. It seems that the volatility in the corn market is going to continue in 2010 based on some of the comments I am hearing from different analysts. with... Read More
By Garth Donald, Dynagra As the world grows, the agricultural industry is asked to produce more to help feed the expanding population. The main issue growers face is that urban sprawl is eating up the productive farm land. We have less arable acres to work with as a result. Now our crop varieties are getting... Read More
Emotion is a powerful thing. Many people make decisions based on emotion and not science. There is some irony in all of this based on our scientific knowledge has never been higher. We know more about the genome of plants than ever before in our history. Yet at the same time emotions are high and... Read More
I am finding more and more ranchers and feeders are struggling to find the answers to their short term profitability issues. I just hope that if ALMA has success there is enough people in the industry still to benefit from the hard work. At the Tiffin conference I really detected frustration from producers on how... Read More
It is no secret that durum prices are less than fantastic. Spring wheat is currently in somewhat of a better position but has its own issues on the supply side. Many farmers at CropWeek were really wondering how much durum they would plant this coming spring with the glut that is preventing any probability of... Read More
I talked to Dustin Gosnell, Director of Strategic Planning and Corporate Policy, Canadian Wheat Board about GM wheat and the CWB's position on the latest WTO issues. Agricultural trade issues are really sensitive and controversial issues right now. Never mind the trade issues that North America has with China and the other BRIC countries but... Read More
Buying a combine has become a much larger decision than in the past. Combines are a piece of equipment that you use only in the fall but are incredibly important to getting the crop in the bin. Like most pieces of machinery they have become more sophisticated although the threshing concept is still based on... Read More
I have seen some of my grandfather Mehalko's old farming photos where they were seeding with twelve foot drills. That twelve foot drill had a relatively inaccurate rate seeding tool and it was fairly difficult to manage depth. All of this and not to mention the open cab. I visited the SeedHawk booth to check... Read More
In my opinion, inoculants are a very interesting product. Products like Nodulator fix Nitrogen which has benefits for this years soybean or pulse crop but also has extreme benefits for next years cereal crop to. Its one of those amazing innovations in agriculture that we take for granted sometimes until you really sit down and... Read More