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Go Fast, Go Slow

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Go hard. Then go even harder. Expand fast, then expand some more. This is the moment that farmers have been waiting for. There are so many more mouths to fill, so many more consumers who want more meat on their plates, and so many more gas tanks that only farmers can fill. Or, go slow. […] Read more
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LETTERS TO EDITORS

Reading Time: 2 minutes Points from letters >>>The following are excerpts from some of the e-mail you sent in response to our special June/July GuidePost issue with our tour to meet farmers across Canada. Your thoughts and comments are always appreciated. I’m at [email protected],or you can reach me at 519-674-1449. Beside supply management If Oxford County is an agricultural […] Read more
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GUIDE WEATHER – for Aug. 31, 2009

Reading Time: 3 minutes BRITISH COLUMBIA Aug. 30-Sept. 5: Fair with isolated showers. Seasonal to warm. Frost touches higher levels. Sept. 6-12: Variable weather with some rain. Seasonal temperatures but frost higher elevations. Sept. 13-19: Highs in the teens except 20s interior. Patchy higher level frost. Scattered rain. Sept. 20-26: Fair overall with scattered rain, heavier west and north. […] Read more
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Points from letters >>>The following are excerpts from some of the e-mail you sent in response to our special June/July GuidePost issue with our tour to meet farmers across Canada. Your thoughts and comments are always appreciated. I’m at tbutton@twi

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beside supply management If Oxford County is an agricultural powerhouse because of supply management, it should be noted that powerhouses are never well-liked, and are rarely, if ever, missed especially when, as in supply management, the power is restricted, by legislated entitlement, to only a select few. Your article (June/July 2009) should have included an […] Read more
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Tom Button is editor of Country Guide magazine David (Sometimes) Beats Goliath

Reading Time: 2 minutes Malcolm Gladwell loves the story of David and Goliath. That means a lot to us because as we’ve been working our way across Canada for this year’s GuidePost issue, Gladwell is someone we’ve been thinking a lot about. Gladwell is author of business best-sellers including The Tipping Point and Outliers: The Story of Success, and […] Read more
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THE VIEW from…Ukraine

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Reading Time: 4 minutes As the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, a new fear gnawed at grain growers around the world. For years they’d listened to tales of Ukraine, one of the planet’s great breadbaskets with its fertile steppes and enormous grain-growing potential. Would the free farmers of Ukraine rev up such a huge grain machine that […] Read more
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Is your next step a Joint Venture?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In previous columns we have looked at how critical it is that you make the best possible decision about how you structure your farm business, and we have looked in detail at proprietorships, partnerships and incorporation. Another process we are using more and more often is the joint venture. A joint venture may provide you […] Read more
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Crop Advisor’s Casebook Herbicide Damage?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Tracy Friesen is a Richardson International sales agronomist in Spirit River, Alta. Early last July I received a call from Bob, a 3,000-acre grain producer in my area regarding potential herbicide damage on his trait canola. It had been a very hot and dry spring and the plant population was thin, with plant maturity ranging […] Read more
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Crop Advisor’s Solution Solved — What’s Wrong With Air Seeder

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lloyd was dealing with missing plants, dead plants and one-leaf plants in his wheat field near Redvers, Alta. During our visit, we had a lot of factors to consider. Lloyd’s first concern was frost damage, even though wheat has a high tolerance. We ruled this out as the damage was more evident on higher ground. […] Read more
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REFLECTIONS – for Jul. 6, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Her family has farmed in this area for three generations.” The speaker at a high school graduation points out that Cindy, the class valedictorian, is the child of two previous graduates. Cindy’s parents married soon after graduation and are well known in the community. Her father is the reeve of the municipal district. Her mother […] Read more

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