Believe it or not, winter is going to quickly come to an end, and cattle markets are picking up on this. As we pass mid-February, the seasonality in the cutout price is starting to pick up, says Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange, as we make it through the lull of January and February.... Read More
Category: Western Canada
The former governor of the Bank of Canada says he expects inflation will drop quicker than many are predicting and that real interest rates will remain low in the long term. Stephen Poloz shared his economic outlook during a keynote presentation at the CropConnect Conference in Winnipeg on Wednesday. Many of the economic parameters that... Read More
The oat market is somehow managing to garner positive attention, even as "burdensome, massive oat supplies" weigh on the market. Randy Strychar, president of Oatinformation, presented at CropConnect in Winnipeg, Man., this week and says barring a major weather event, it will take 18-24 months to chew through the current large oat supply. But despite... Read More
Farmers and the agriculture industry are still waiting to hear about "What we heard" when it comes to the federal government's fertilizer emissions reduction target. This week, at the Future of Food event at Ottawa, Ont., Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau was quite positive about the timeline of a fertilizer tariff money announcement... Read More
This week, Farm and Food Care Saskatchewan hosted the Ag Awareness Summit at Saskatoon where they announced the 2022 Champion Award winner, Alanna Koch. The Farm and Food Care Champion Award recognizes an individual who has connected consumers with agriculture and built public trust in farming and food in Saskatchewan and beyond. Koch farms along... Read More
It's Canada's Ag Day, and it's time to celebrate the food and farmers you love. How are you celebrating? That's how Peter "Wheat Pete" Johnson kicks off this week's Wheat Pete's Word before diving in to the topics and questions of the week, including if cover crops are really going to be dead come spring,... Read More
If you're paying attention to social media today — February 15th, 2023 — you'll likely notice those involved in the agriculture industry are celebrating Canada's Agriculture Day across the country. For me, personally, there's no better way to celebrate Canadian agriculture than by catching up with farmers across the country on RealAg Radio, and seeing... Read More
The Canadian Agricultural HR Council (CAHRC) has received funding from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), for Growing the Agriculture Workforce of the Future: Cultivating Canada's Post-Pandemic Recovery. This funding is part of ESDC's Sectoral Workplace Solutions Program (SWSP) that helps key sectors of the economy implement solutions to address their current and emerging workforce... Read More
Corteva has made it official — Optimum GLY canola will be available for growers for seeding this year. The trait, which offers herbicide tolerance to a higher rate of glyphosate and over a wider window of application timing, received the last market approval almost exactly a month ago, on January 13. China was the last... Read More
The federal government has committed another $150 million to Protein Industries Canada over the next five years, as the original funding for the innovation cluster expired last year. The protein initiative is one of five clusters receiving funding as part of the $750 million Global Innovation Cluster program that was announced in the 2022 budget... Read More