With a lot of farmers in the 50 to 75 age bracket and going through some very profitable years, many farming operations will either be passed on to a successor or wound down in the next few years.
Farm business
The Good, Bad & Ugly
The Good: Statistics Canada released their production estimates for the 2025-26 crop and one word, record, can describe the results. Wheat and spring wheat production set new records in 2025 while durum output was the second largest in history. Record production for most crops is good news. The most significant record in terms of the […] Read more
Prairie Weather
An Alberta clipper is pushing across the Prairies today with radar indicating that snow is falling in Manitoba and northern Alberta. The system in Manitoba will push into northwestern Ontario by the afternoon. The system in northern Alberta will continue to move southeastward during the day which will spread snowfall over the Prairies through the day. […] Read more
AM Market Report – December 4, 2025
GOOD MORNING…HERE IS YOUR MORNING MARKET NEWS OVERNIGHT GRAIN TRADE ICE canola futures tried posting a modest corrective bounce overnight after yesterday s $13 to $15/tonne sell-off. But that changed at 7:30 am CST this morning after Statistics Canada reported a record large 21.8 MMT canola crop for 2025. The news immediately knocked the canola […] Read more
The Good, Bad & Ugly
The Good: The Environment and Climate Change Canada forecast for the December through February calls for above normal precipitation across the Prairies. The best chances of receiving above normal precipitation are in northern and southern Alberta. Central Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have nearly even chances of receiving above normal amounts this winter. This is good news […] Read more
AM Market Report – December 3, 2025
GOOD MORNING…HERE IS YOUR MORNING MARKET NEWS OVERNIGHT GRAIN TRADE ICE canola futures are trading $2 to mostly $5/tonne lower so far this morning…down for a fourth consecutive session and threatening a bearish technical breach on price charts. Chicago soybean futures are narrowly mixed this morning…nearby contracts are now only steady to fractionally higher and […] Read more
The Good, Bad & Ugly
The Good: Wheat markets rallied today with March spring wheat futures gaining five cents cents per bushel. The January spring wheat market closed the day at US$5.81 per bushel. Chicago wheat futures gained five cents per bushel on the day while Kansas City futures were up by six cents per bushel. The gains in wheat […] Read more
Larkin to step down as Grain Growers of Canada Executive Director
Kyle Larkin will step down as executive director of Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) at the end of December.
National Farmers’ Union proposes guaranteed basic income for farmers
The National Farmers Union (NFU) plans to lobby the federal government for farmers to be guaranteed an annual basic income of $50,000.
Older digital control systems allow in hackers
Out-of-date internet-connected systems can prove to be a security vulnerability on many Prairie farms
Older control systems provide an easy gateway to gain access to a farm’s digital systems. Once in, hackers can then infiltrate other programs and software.
