With harvest 2011 almost complete across the country except for the Eastern corn, everyone is getting ready for winter. Farmers never seem to take enough pictures of their hard work through the growing season. The growing season presents challenges but no time brings a farm more together than harvest. Harvest is harvest is about hard... Read More
Category: Western Canada
The Alberta & Saskatchewan Cattle on Feed report came out last week and a number of over arching themes emerged. The small herd numbers are evident when we take a look at feed yard placement numbers and heifer retention. The strong calf prices seem to be driving that heifer retention as ranchers consider replentishing the... Read More
For farmers in the West finished harvest, there is a tendency to sit back and breathe a big sigh of relief and rightly so. However, as any farmer who's had a bin full of grain go bad can tell you, it's not a time to sit back and forget about that crop. Monitoring and conditioning... Read More
Yesterday the Federal Conservatives released the new CWB bill which for the first time outlines it's intentions for the CWB in a non-single desk world. The Act includes everything from the repeal of the old act to the dissolving of the current Board of Directors including the release of Chairman Alan Oberg. We discussed this... Read More
As the bulk of the prairie harvest progresses to completion, there are still some areas of the west that are lagging behind because of less than stellar conditions. One of those areas is the Peace Region of Northern Alberta. This growing season has been less than kind to them and the harvest has been slow... Read More
This week Alliance Grain Traders (AGT) announced that they are building a durum processing plant in Regina. This is a great story for Western Canadian growers as it creates jobs, moves more grain processing into Canada and allows for future growth of the industry. Of course the Canadian Wheat Board rhetoric had to hijack the... Read More
Expect the unexpected is one of those phrases we've been trained to associate with something negative. In the reality of this global economic situation, that is understandable. Sometimes however, we get an unexpected silver lining type situation. The story surrounding our Canadian dollar and our cattle exports is one of those. A weaker dollar,(even if... Read More
It's the fourth consecutive NDP government for Manitoba with voters electing Greg Selinger for the provinces top job last Tuesday. So what does that mean for agriculture in the province? Does the election signal the go ahead for the government to stay the course when it comes to ag policy? If that's how the NDP... Read More
RealAgriculture.com is happy to present a new feature segment we call "Under the Microscope". We have partnered with BioVision Seed Labs to educate and inform producers with respect to what goes on inside the seed lab and hopefully take some of the mystery out of the process. In the first episode we talk to Holly... Read More
If you make a decision you are bound to be criticized. The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) is under attack from the NFU based on KAP's decision to not work with the NFU in their defiance of the government's single desk decision. In the NFU press release they even state that KAP members digruntled with this... Read More