A warm prairie summer is filling the beaches but also providing good conditions for insects to infiltrate farm fields. Dale Risula, the integrated crop management specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture at Moose Jaw, said an outbreak of bertha armyworms is imminent in Saskatchewan and only a cold snap could slow them down now. The province is […] Read more
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Coming Events
July 21: Agri-Trend Diagnostics Direct Field School, Hamman Ag Research Farm, Lethbridge, 1-877-276-7526 July 22: Telemiracle Gymkhana , OK Corral, Warman, Sask. (Noreen and Ray Kneeland, 306-933-1018) July 22: Walt Body Memorial Trail Ride, Crystal Lake Ranch, near Major, Sask., 306-834-5058 July 24: Kramer’s pre-harvest equipment auction, North Battleford, Sask.(Neil Kramer, 306-445-5000) July 25-26: Manitoba […] Read more
Agri-Coaches Corner/Crop Report
Manitoba East Winter wheat is turning and some fields are being desiccated. Early canola is podding, late canola is at 10 to 65 percent flowering, sunflowers are five to six feet tall, soybeans and flax are flowering and peas are podding. High temperatures and deteriorating soil moisture are causing crop deterioration and flower blasting in […] Read more
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Wanted: Information on quilts for troops from Joan Walline, Innisfail, Alta., or Elsa Nielsen, Spruce View, Alta. or anyone with that knowledge. – Blanche Pott, Box 96, Shell Lake, Sask. S0J 2G0, 306-427-4717. Birch River, Man., homecoming history book. Would all present and former folks please submit your family history, new or updated, for the […] Read more
Feds exclusive guest list irks CWB supporters
A Conservative government decision to hold a by-invitation-only consultation next week with supporters of the party’s promise to end the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly has provoked strong words of protest, some praise and a little bit of attempted sabotage. On July 27 at a Saskatoon hotel, David Anderson, Saskatchewan MP and parliamentary secretary to agriculture […] Read more
FRCC, Transport Canada dispute report details
The Farmer Rail Car Coalition may have lost its battle to buy the federal government’s grain cars, but the war of words between the coalition and Transport Canada shows no signs of abating. FRCC president Sinclair Harrison said a senior Transport Canada official misled MPs attending a meeting of the House of Commons agriculture committee […] Read more
Farmers’ votes ignored: CWB
The Conservative government is showing “a lack of respect” for prairie grain farmers whose votes for Canadian Wheat Board directors are being ignored as the government moves to end the CWB monopoly, says board chair Ken Ritter. And the Conservatives are misunderstanding or misrepresenting the implications of the January federal election that saw the party […] Read more
Europe powers ahead on biofuel’s potential
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The way Simon Barber sees it, Europe’s strong environmental movement is the driving force behind the European Union push to expand its biofuel industry. “I think the environmental concerns about global warming have given it a real push,” says the director of the plant biotechnology unit in Europabio, the European lobby group […] Read more
Variable delivery frustrates pulse growers
LETHBRIDGE – Special crops shippers can accept that it takes longer to get their product to port position. What they can’t abide is the substantial variation in delivery time. That is one of the key findings of a soon-to-be-released study on special crops grain movement conducted by Quorum Corp., Canada’s government-appointed grain transportation monitor. It […] Read more
Washington report offers tips on developing biofuel policy
BRUSSELS, Belgium – It all sounds so simple, at least from the vantage point of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C. By analyzing the positive and negative policies of countries that are biofuel pioneers, the research centre and forecaster has prepared a template for governments trying to create policy to support a biofuel industry. Worldwatch […] Read more
