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For Josh Fankhauser, integrating field data with the decisions he makes in the shop leads to better, more profitable crop performance the next summer.

Gigs of data at work on the farm

Data Analysis: Rigorous analysis of numbers from the field helps this farm achieve its business objective

By Lee Hart January 18, 2016

Reading Time: 8 minutes When Josh Fankhauser isn’t in the shop fine tuning some equipment, he’s often at his office computer, wading through gigabytes of crop production data and analyzing numbers. Like a lot of farmers, Fankhauser is happy with a wrench in his hand, and in a world where the ethos is “throw it out, buy new,” he […] Read more

Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies for the week centred on Jan. 6. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Livestock, Weather

U.S. forecaster sees El Nino conditions weakening

By Reuters January 14, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — The El Nino phenomenon currently affecting weather is expected to weaken during the Northern Hemisphere spring and transition to normal conditions by late spring or early summer, a U.S. government weather forecaster said Thursday. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, was in line in its monthly forecast […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery, Weather

Study finds Canadian beef’s GHG footprint shrunk over 30 years

By Country Guide Staff January 11, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Efficiencies in cattle production and feeding have allowed Canada’s beef industry to produce the same weight in beef as 30 years ago with smaller breeding herds, less land — and smaller greenhouse gas (GHG) output, a new study finds. The study, led by research scientist Tim McAllister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge, with […] Read more

Crops, Forages, Reuters

Saudi dairy firm buying California land for fodder

By Reuters January 11, 2016

Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters –– Saudi Arabia’s Almarai, the largest dairy company in the Gulf, has spent C$45 million to buy land in California to supply its business with alfalfa hay, it said Sunday. The 1,790 acres of land at Blythe — in the state’s southeast corner, about 200 km east of Palm Springs — was acquired through […] Read more

Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Machinery, Pasture

Salford buys tillage equipment maker AerWay

By Country Guide Staff January 8, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Southwestern Ontario vertical tillage and pasture equipment maker AerWay has become part of another well-known Ontario ag equipment manufacturer. Salford Group announced in December it has bought the AerWay advanced aeration products line from the Canadian trailer systems arm of German truck, bus and trailer axle and suspension manufacturer SAF-Holland. AerWay, which operates a manufacturing […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Global dairy prices unexpectedly fall in overnight auction

By Reuters January 5, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wellington | Reuters — Global dairy prices unexpectedly eased in the overnight GlobalDairyTrade auction, a platform established by New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter. Fonterra’s GDT Price Index dipped 1.6 per cent, with an average selling price of $2,458 per tonne, in the auction held Tuesday (all figures US$). Whole milk […] Read more

Riparian habitat at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (FWS.gov/refuge/Malheur)

Livestock, Reuters

Sympathy for jailed ranchers, anger at occupiers in Oregon town

By Jimmy Urquhart, Jonathan Allen January 5, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Burns, Ore. | Reuters — Residents of the Oregon town thrust into the spotlight after self-styled militiamen took over a U.S. wildlife refuge voiced sympathy for the jailed ranchers whose plight inspired the action but were critical of the armed protesters. Saturday’s takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside the town of Burns, Ore., […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Oregon activists picked the wrong battle, militia leaders say

By Andy Sullivan January 5, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Reuters — Self-styled militia members who seized federal property in rural Oregon in an effort to galvanize opposition to the U.S. government appear to have made a tactical error — potential allies say they picked the wrong battle. As armed anti-government activists occupied a snowy wildlife refuge for a third day to call attention to […] Read more

TBARS director Dr. Tarlok Singh Sahota shows off a test plot of black barley in this 2014 file photo.

Crops, Weather

Thunder Bay ag research station gets stay

By Country Guide Staff January 4, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes More time has been bought for a northern Ontario agricultural research station on the brink of closing to come up with a new operating plan. The Ontario government on Monday announced $350,000 in bridge funding for the not-for-profit Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Association, operator of the Thunder Bay Agricultural Research Station (TBARS), to “develop a […] Read more

Machinery, Machinery Guide

More compact mid-range tractors

Machinery Guide: CNH introduces two high-horsepower, small-chassis models

By Scott Garvey December 31, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes In my last article, Machinery Guide took a look at AGCO’s newest Fendt tractor, the compact 500 Series. It fits into a relatively new tractor market segment that offers higher horsepower in a compact package. This year CNH also threw its hat into that big-power, small-chassis ring with the introduction of two new models in both […] Read more

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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