Am I the only one left scratching my head over the newly minted CWB offering canola pools? Voluntary pooling is all good, if that's what you're in to, but I thought a very recent survey asking farmers if they'd be interested in a canola pool went over like a lead balloon. Apparently not, according to... Read More
Category: Western Canada
With the high profile stature of celebrities has produced a world where celebrities provide expert opinion on topics they see as "good causes." In this case it was political satirist Bill Maher (I watch the show every week) who tackled the cause of GMO food labelling. One of the guests on the panel Reason.com and... Read More
Why is it that this topic of global economic recovery will not go away. What is taking so long for the global economy to start roaring again. It was a much more fun time Glen Hodgson, Conference Board of Canada provided RealAgriculture.com with his analysis of the Canadian and global economy. Glen breaks down the... Read More
Due to the purchase of Viterra by Glencore, much of the media attention has been pointed at Cargill, Richardsons and Glencore. One company that is maybe running under the radar in their strategy in th open market and overal Canadian operations is Louis Dreyfus. At the International Livestock conference RealAgriculture.com chatted with Louis Dreyfus Canadian... Read More
Do you ever feel like you should of just stayed in bed? We have all had these days. It seems though during harvest some things tend to pile up. In the case of @jeff_elder's tweet, the grain has piled up. No doubt, we have all been here. If you cannot see the below tweet, click... Read More
The stretch from spring seeding to winter wheat planting isn't really that long, but a lot can happen over that period. During the time your equipment sits it's subject to all kinds of weather variations from late spring snowstorms to summer heat waves. Those kind of swings can wreak havoc with your equipment in ways... Read More
Syngenta recently received Canadian regulatory approval for Agrisure Viptera 3220 E-Z Refuge trait stack in corn. The Agrisure Viptera 3220 trait stack offers dual modes of action for control of multiple lepidopteran pests, such as black cutworm, western bean cutworm and fall armyworm, and corn borer. Each bag contains 95% seed of a corn hybrid... Read More
At nearly every field day for the past few years in Saskatchewan, the presenting agronomist would hold up a mangled canola head and ask, "Can anyone tell me what this is?" Most farmers would look closer, but few had an answer. Being from Manitoba, I'd pipe up, "Aster yellows." Aster yellows is relatively common in... Read More
Usually producers talk about buying equipment in the US when the Canadian Dollar swings above par. This time though the deals on US based farm machinery are being driven by the severe US drought. With the US corn and soybean harvest looking very poor in comparison to prior years, US farm machinery dealers have a... Read More
"How do I figure out when to swath my canola?" is one of those questions that comes up every year without fail. It's a question that doesn't have a broad, simple answer, which is why it's restated every year. Even though there are over 20 million acres of canola in Western Canada producers still struggle... Read More