Crop Management
Glacier FarmMedia’s senior editor for machinery and equipment, Scott Garvey, takes a look at how farm machinery has evolved over the years. The first video in this series takes us from horses to horsepower.
Crop Management
Lentil prices to depend on India’s import needs
SASKATOON — There are differing opinions on how many lentils India will import in 2023-24. That elusive number will go a long way toward determining price prospects for the crop, says an exporter. Stat Publishing is forecasting 1.13 million tonnes of imports this year, down from 1.44 million tonnes last year. However, it noted global […] Read more
Canada continues to import U.S. lentils
SASKATOON — American lentils are pouring across the border into Canada. Canada accounted for 41 percent of all lentil exports from the United States in 2022-23 and 50 percent of shipments so far in 2023-24, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Vegetables and Pulses Outlook: December 2023 report. That amounted to 76,000 tonnes last […] Read more
Verticillium’s impact studied
WINNIPEG — For a few years, canola industry leaders have been worried about verticillium stripe and its impact on crop yields. Reports out of Europe suggest the fungal disease could cause a wide range of losses, anywhere from 10 to 50 percent on oilseed rape. However, the extreme losses are usually confined to a tiny […] Read more
U.S.-China trade tensions mount
SASKATOON — There is talk of another trade war brewing between the United States and China, but for now it is only rhetoric, says a trade expert. A select committee of the U.S. Congress wants to start an economic war with China and American farmers could be the first casualties. The House Select Committee on […] Read more
Buhler Industries finds new majority shareholder in Turkish firm
It was a big week for western Canadian machinery manufacturers as Winnipeg-based Buhler Industries inked a deal that will see a Turkish company purchase its majority stake, and Guelph-based manufacturer Linamar Corporation acquired Saskatchewan’s Bourgault Industries. Buhler Industries and Başak Traktör, a subsidiary of ASKO Holding, entered an agreement to purchase common shares held by […] Read more
Başak Traktör of Turkey buys Buhler
Başak Traktör, which is based in Sakarya,Turkey, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASKO Holding, announced Dec. 20 it has acquired 96.7 percent of the outstanding shares of Buhler Industries, the parent company of Winnipeg-based Versatile and Farm King brands. The deal includes Başak Traktör assuming all the company’s outstanding debt, and in total is […] Read more
Manitoba growers wrap up corn, sunflower harvest
Even with last month’s winter weather, corn and sunflower producers in Manitoba had a strong finish to their 2023 growing season. Anastasia Kubinec harvested her corn and sunflowers with great yields this fall, and she was lucky enough to have her sunflowers off before the snow came. She said the warmer weather created some muddy […] Read more
Seed multiple soybean varieties
An Ontario soy expert says growers should plant at least three varieties to help find the best fit for their farm
WINNIPEG — Horst Bohner is convinced that farmers should plant more than one variety of soybeans. If they don’t, they are making a “mistake.” “As a basic starting point, I think every grower should seed at least three varieties. Every year. As a minimum. Hopefully more than that,” said Bohner, the soybean specialist for the […] Read more
Final years of Massey Ferguson’s assembly plant
Declining sales and accumulated debt forced the sale of the combine division and closure of the plant
In this final instalment of our four-part series on the Massey Ferguson combine plant in Brantford, Ont., the story wraps up with a look at the plant’s final days and what was left unfinished as the company abandoned combine manufacturing in the 1980s. As the 1980s began, the evolution toward fewer, larger farms had taken […] Read more
