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Being diversified, our risk management is spread, but that also means we aren’t as efficient as we could be when you compare to other operations really specialized in one commodity like grain and oilseed or strictly cattle.” – Ken Lewis
Crops, Guide Business, Livestock

Diversification the name of the game for Lewis Farms

Change Makers: From potatoes to grain to a commercial bull business, Lewis Farms has diversified to manage risk and accommodate market challenges

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Reading Time: 7 minutes “Sometimes, progress simply isn’t possible without change,” says Ken Lewis, general manager of Lewis Farms in Spruce Grove, just west of Edmonton, Alta. Which means that ignoring opportunities to change, or actively resisting change when it arrives can actually be the paths of greatest risk. Because change will happen. In fact, like other farmers, Lewis […] Read more
”It’s sort of an ‘evergreen’ question: is technology slowing down in agriculture?”— Dr. Glenn Fox, University of Guelph
Corn, Crops

Corn yields still on the rise

Check out the numbers when you use interpolated data to even out our year-by-year weather swings

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Reading Time: 5 minutes What if we could peer into the future and catch a glimpse of where our agriculture is heading? How would such a view shape the development of plant breeding and advances in technology, and maybe even the impact on farmers? A University of Guelph PhD student is working to develop a new yield model, first […] Read more
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Crops

Federal forecast sees more oilseed acres, less in grains

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian farmers are expected to cut back the summerfallow allocation and put more acres in production this spring, planting more of those acres in oilseeds and fewer in grains and pulses. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis group on Monday released an outlook for principal field crops which, assuming a return to average or trend […] Read more
“Always be watching and learning,” Green says. “Be willing to try new things, or at least be willing to consider them.”
Crops, Livestock

Ready for spring

Farm organizations are as important as ever for farmers who want to keep producing at their best, says OSCIA president Gord Green

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Reading Time: 6 minutes For Gord Green, “ag in the classroom” is a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week, 365-day-a-year opportunity, whether the classroom that he happens to be in at the moment is in the field, in a lecture hall, at a community centre or on a bus tour. In any setting, Green wants to learn, and he has made it a […] Read more
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Corn, Crops

Large yields keep Manitoba farmers looking to corn

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Manitoba corn growers saw record yields this year despite an adverse harvest — and that trend of big crops is expected to continue, as varieties improve and more farmers commit to the crop. “It appears that the trend is headed toward larger (corn) crops,” said Myron Krahn, president of the Manitoba Corn […] Read more
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Corn, Crops

A market for non-GMO corn

Consumer demand is having a larger impact on what and how farmers may grow

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In times with volatile commodity prices, farmers are apt to put more effort into researching opportunities such as identity-preserved markets, particularly for soybeans. After all, as we often hear, a $1 premium looks better if soybeans drop towards $10 per bushel than when they’re above $13. But what if there could be IP premiums for […] Read more
Application technology is expanding his N management options, says Mike Strang.
Corn, Crops

Profit-making N strategies for growing corn

After a dry season, maybe it’s time for some hard thinking about how you apply nitrogen

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Producers who applied their nitrogen in one pass this year at least minimized their application expenses. Those who opted for a split application and managed to co-ordinate it with well-timed rain perhaps gained more for their efforts. Undoubtedly, however, both are questioning if their strategy was the right way to go this time. And because […] Read more
corn baler and bale
Corn, Crops

From cornstalks to sugar

Farmers ready to participate in bioeconomy

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Reading Time: 5 minutes With consumers pushing for a greener, more sustainable chemical industry, agriculture is poised to play a key role in the new bioeconomy, especially with renewable resources that can be converted into bioenergy and biobased chemicals. This time, farmers aren’t waiting around to find out how they can get involved. A group of farmers in southwestern […] Read more
Canopy closure leads to better weed management, uniformity of stand and ultimately better yield.
Crops, Soybeans

Grow soybeans like corn

Increasing your management intensity with extra attention to weeds, pests, uniformity and canopy closure

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Reading Time: 10 minutes Proponents of big yields often make the same observation. Whether it’s in corn with American record holders Francis Childs or Herman War­saw, or it’s in soybeans, with Dr. Gary Ablett at Ridgetown Campus once peg­ging our potential soybean yield at 250 bu./ac., the talk always turns to “attention to detail.” Yet what confounds Eric Richter […] Read more
USDA boosts crop yield forecast
Markets

USDA boosts crop yield forecast

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington/Reuters – The U.S. Agriculture Department raised its already record-high forecast for U.S. corn and soybean harvests Nov.9, with gains keyed by increased yield estimates in major production states such as Iowa, Minnesota and Ohio. The bumper harvest will leave a larger-than-expected stockpile of both commodities even with increased usage forecasts, the government said in […] Read more

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