Daily Network News

More News →

Features

Features

Waiting For The Flood

By
Reading Time: 5 minutes APRIL 10 So much water coming from the west toward our farm south of Weyburn in southern Saskatchewan. And it’s coming so fast. A friend phones to ask about using our floating pump. We have to say no. We drive by a neighbour, busy ditching water away from where his new basement is flooded. Abandoning […] Read more
Features

BOOK REVIEW

Reading Time: 4 minutes Enchantment: The Art Of Changing Hearts, Minds, And Actions By Guy Kawasaki Portfolio / Penguin $33.50 Reviewed by Tom Button, CG Editor This book certainly isn’t about farming. At first glance, in fact, it also seems to have nothing at all that it could teach farmers, being all about how to set unique goals for […] Read more
Features

2006 The Year It All Changed

By
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s a new dynamic. Today, crude oil prices and global currency trading are huge drivers across farm commodity markets, affecting prices much more than the spec funds, and often much more than simple supply and demand. Dr. Julieta Frank joined the Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics at the University of Manitoba in early 2009 […] Read more
Features

Have You Any Wool?

By
Reading Time: 4 minutes After decades of low wool prices, Canada’s 10,000 sheep producers are warming up to the perfect storm of high prices and low world supplies. “We expect much-improved wool prices for the upcoming year for both finer and coarse micron wools,” says Eric Bjergson, manager of the Canadian Co-operative of Wool Growers in Ottawa. For years, […] Read more
Features

Vital Statistics

By
Reading Time: 9 minutes There are almost as many financial ratios as seed varieties, and choosing which are most meaningful for your farm — and most helpful for how you manage for success — can be more than difficult. It can be positively head spinning. Should you track current ratio or working capital? Is ROA a good guide, or […] Read more
Features

Cooking Up A Profit

By
Reading Time: 10 minutes At some point or other, everyone who has gone to farm meetings has had the valueadded sermon preached at them. The basic speech comes with a few variations, but regardless whether it’s delivered by a slick consultant, an earnest public servant or even just a smart-aleck journalist, it always comes with the same main points. […] Read more
Features

The Third Way

By
Reading Time: 7 minutes Let’s say that you are thinking about retiring but you have no family members who want to farm. If you’re like most Canadian farmers facing this prospect, you will consider just two options, either to sell the farm or to rent it out. Or let’s say you are thinking of leaving land to a family […] Read more
Features

The Road To Volatility

By
Reading Time: 4 minutes Normally, a two-hour wait in a lineup of trucks at the elevator would have had me fidgeting. This winter it was was different. It was back in January, and I was going to be driving away with over $13 per bushel for the canola I was dumping. The grower right behind me wasn’t as happy. […] Read more
Features

Aftershocks In Farm Machinery

By
Reading Time: 5 minutes The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that shook Japan at 2:46 p.m. on March 11 has shaken up the rest of the world as well, including the world of farm machinery. And just as the size and power of the earthquake itself was unexpected, so too has been the collateral fallout. As authorities in B.C. continue monitoring […] Read more
Features

You Earned It!

By
Reading Time: 4 minutes When prices are good, do you pour every last dollar back into the farm or do you take some of that hard-earned cash to enjoy life a little? We asked three experts to weigh in with advice on management strategies when prices are good. Gary Mawhiney, human resources expert at the Ontario agriculture ministry, says […] Read more

AgCanadaTV

AgCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for March 27, 2026

Sponsored by:
More Videos →

Latest Market News

More Market News →