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The farmer’s playbook

Consider these plays to arrive, thrive and survive in 2025

By Evan Shout April 22, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes Walmart turns over its on-shelf inventory 9.4 times every calendar year. But farmers only get one kick at the can. In fact, it has been said that over a farmer’s career many will only hit a home run about seven times. That means the variance for errors is very small, and the planning component in […] Read more

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FCC’s top economic charts to monitor in 2024

Downward trends for cattle, swine herds; positive bent to feed, fertilizer affordability

By Farm Credit Canada January 12, 2024

Reading Time: 5 minutes As we start the new year amid elevated inflation and major headwinds facing the economy, here are our top charts to help make sense of the economic environment for farm operations, agribusinesses and food processors.

General, Markets

Volatile oil market most likely to improve says analyst

Israel-Gaza war, Red Sea attacks having less impact than expected

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 9, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes As the global oil market continued to ready itself for 2024, one analyst stated it’s more likely prices will increase than to drop further. Phil Flynn of the Price Futures Group in Chicago said one’s outlook on crude oil is predicated on their economic view.

File photo of a potato field in Alberta’s Lacombe County. (COrthner/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Potatoes

Alberta potatoes chip in $2.9 billion for Canadian economy

New report verifies what many in industry suspected

By Jeff Melchior July 4, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta’s potato industry is making a big impact — not just on that province but the entire country. A new report — dubbed a “landmark study” by the Potato Growers of Alberta — revealed the sector drove a total contribution of $2.87 billion to Canada’s economy in 2022. It also notes the nationwide creation of […] Read more

Should you buy your numbers back quickly, or retain heifers? The answer is, it depends.

Beef Cattle, Livestock

Economics of herd rebuilding depend on cull rate, study finds

BCRC study hopes to map out a farm’s best path toward a rebuilt herd

By Alexis Stockford November 28, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – A farm’s best plan when it comes to rebuilding the cattle herd after drought may have a lot to do with how deeply they had to cull, according to the Beef Cattle Research Council (BCRC). The advice is the result of a BCRC modeling study, which hoped to gauge the best recovery […] Read more

Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

General, Reuters

Market value alone is selling nature short, governments told

Economic valuations needed but 'not sufficient,' co-chair says

By Mark John July 12, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Reuters — What is the value of a river? Is it for the nutritional content of the fish it sustains? The economic benefit of the local livelihoods it supports? Or does the river have its own value which humans cannot measure? Such questions may seem removed from the issues the world faces, from deepening climate […] Read more

Daily Network News

Canadian trade tribunal to examine imports of frozen, canned vegetables

Pay more attention to South American corn

Board appointments hint Richardson Int. may rejoin canola council

Tag Archives economics

The farmer’s playbook

FCC’s top economic charts to monitor in 2024

Volatile oil market most likely to improve says analyst

Alberta potatoes chip in $2.9 billion for Canadian economy

Economics of herd rebuilding depend on cull rate, study finds

Market value alone is selling nature short, governments told

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