Reading Time: 2 minutes Cereal growers in Western Canada looking for control of Group 2-resistant weeds including kochia, chickweed and cleavers, have a new weed resistance management tool at their disposal. Optica Trio is a Group 4 herbicide combining three active ingredients in one package to control broadleaf weeds in wheat (spring, durum and winter), barley and oats. “Optica […] Read more
Three-active herbicide aimed against Group 2 resistance
Despite its decade long recession, its enormous deficit and its empty factories, Japan is still Canada’s second-biggest ag importer… and it’s still setting the rules
Reading Time: 5 minutes If it was any other country, Japan’s economy would be in tatters and its trading partners would be scrambling for the exits. Instead, despite 10 years of recession, despite having the largest public debt on the planet, and despite having its factories working at only 70 per cent capacity, Japan stolidly continues buying $3 billion […] Read more
“The decision to take our store and farm online took us from just another farm to a real business”
Reading Time: 2 minutes For Tim and Carla Shultz, BSE was a game changer, just as it was on so many other farms. Overnight in May, 2003, the Shultzes had to rethink every hope they d had and every move they d made, and they had to wrestle again and again with the question: Could they survive? As it […] Read more
Transformer
Reading Time: 8 minutes GREG MENZIES’ TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP 1. Develop a clear vision for your company and a timeline in which to achieve specific goals. 2. Identify your team of key leaders and work on perfecting their leadership skills. 3. Give your leaders ownership of tasks, but know their limits. Don’t give them more than they can […] Read more
Succession planning is the single biggest money management issue your family will ever face, but the way to get to the finish line is to focus on just one step at a time
Reading Time: 4 minutes The next decade will bring huge changes to the farm. thousands more farmers will reach their 60s and beyond. they’ll wrestle with issues of who will take over the farm, when it will happen and what the process might look like. they’ll fret over how to be fair to all their children, and how to […] Read more
SEEING A BETTER PRICE
Reading Time: 4 minutes Without a functioning futures market, price discovery in the pulse market is an educated guess at the best of times. Add to that the fact that the industry is also fragmented — each pulse crop is made up of several categories and types, each with its own supply and demand dynamic — plus the fact […] Read more
Skillset
Reading Time: 7 minutes As John Cté sees it, farmers are professionals, and just like any other professionals, they should be committing to some level of professional development every year. No one can tell in 10 years if you’ll be growing blue apples or blue algae, says the Leask, Sask. grain farmer, or whether you’ll be planting 100,000 acres […] Read more
GROW SASKATOON
Reading Time: 9 minutes Saskatchewan has one of the most innovative bioscience clusters in the world,” beams a proud Bob Bjornerud, the province’s minister of agriculture. Saskatchewan is home to 30 per cent of Canada’s ag biotech industry, along with row after row of crops and genetics companies. But if Saskatchewan is hot, Saskatoon is exploding. Bjornerud credits it […] Read more
UP UP AND AWAY
Reading Time: 10 minutes You’re hearing it here first. No one outside agriculture seems to know about it (at least, none of the journalists who write front-page stories or who lead off on CBC broadcasts). Canada’s ag exports through the past year and a half have been blistering. New statistics from the red-hot 2007-08 trading year show exports shot […] Read more
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