OUTLOOK, Sask. – Joyce Nieman’s family has learned over the years not to send out the search dogs if she’s late returning from an errand on the family’s sprawling grain and cattle farm southwest of Outlook. “It’s a joke around here that if I’m late, they know I’ve wandered off into a coulee or something.” […] Read more
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Farmer has lens on life
Records simplify BSE search
Canadian agriculture officials got some much-needed luck in their investigation of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy case in the United States that was traced to Canada. Because of detailed records kept by Wayne and Shirley Forsberg, investigators practically followed a line painted on the highway from Washington state straight to Calmar, Alta. Some farmers’ livestock records […] Read more
Nitrogen tricky question with malting barley
Knowing how much fertilizer to apply in the spring when growing malting barley can be a challenge. It’s hard to target nutrients, particularly nitrogen, to how much rain might fall during the growing season. It’s a challenge that Blake Nestibo, a top malting barley grower in Manitoba, struggles with every year. “The best time to […] Read more
Coming Events
Manitoba beef and forage days: Jan. 16: Teulon, Hilmar Johnson, 204-886-4405 Feb. 3: Miniota, John Popp, 204-867-6572 Feb. 4: Belmont, John Popp, 204-867-6572 Jan. 16-17: Canadian Bull Congress, Camrose, Alta., 780-672-3640 Jan. 20: Crop Talk 2004, Tisdale, Sask. (Leroy Bader, 306-878-8805) Jan. 20-21: Cattlemen’s Corral Crop Visions, Lloydminster (Mike Sidoryk, 306-825-5571) Jan. 20-22: Manitoba Ag […] Read more
BSE connection rattles Alberta farm family
CALMAR, Alta. – The day after Christmas Wayne and Shirley Forsberg were picked up by a whirlwind and dumped into an international crisis that has paralyzed the livestock industry in Canada for almost a year. Until then the couple quietly worked, lived and raised their children on the small farm they started in 1965 southwest […] Read more
Farmers could profit from fish food demand
Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production industries in the world, climbing to 37.9 million tonnes in 2001 from 13 million tonnes in 1990. Murray Drew of the University of Saskatchewan’s Prairie Feed Resource Centre thinks prairie farmers and processors can benefit from this growth. “The typical farmed-salmon diet is composed of 50 […] Read more
Mailbox
Wanted: A set of Noma bubble lights of the 1940-50 era in any condition. They have a picture of a little girl and a bubble light on top of the box. There are nine bubble lights in the set. Also, want a White Orchid pattern community silver pickle fork. – Ruth Mushumanski, Box 73, Russell, […] Read more
Canadian politicians pitch for meat sales
Canadian government ministers fanned out across the world this week with one simple message to traditional buyers of Canadian beef – open your borders. The product is safe. In Mexico for a meeting of leaders of the Americas, prime minister Paul Martin was to meet United States president George W. Bush Jan. 13. In Ottawa […] Read more
Small town business has designs on big city markets
ST. BENEDICT, Sask. – Willie Muller likes to tell the one about the Vancouver executive and the village of St. Benedict. The way he tells it, Muller and his wife Holly, who run a business that places words and pictures onto clothing and other fabrics, had just agreed to act as the Saskatchewan agent for […] Read more
BASF brings focus to tolerant lentils
In what is being billed as a “global first,” BASF Canada has announced its intention to develop a herbicide tolerant crop for Canadian lentil growers. Clearfield lentils will be created and commercialized in partnership with the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre and Saskatchewan Pulse Growers. Breeder seed of the crop, which is being developed […] Read more
