Canadian crop producers are on the tail end of some of the best years ever, with record yields, prices and net farm income. Now though, with an eye-popping corn and soy yields south of the border and margin outlooks looking barely positive, does this change how you pencil-in acres this winter for the spring seeding […] Read more
Production
Outdoor Farm Show demonstrations – Video
A few weeks ago I was attending a farm show in Ontario. I know what you’re are thinking: ‘They farm differently than we do, so I am not sure what an event like that might offer for us back on the Prairies?’ You would be right. Here in Oxford County, farmland is close to $20,000 […] Read more
Video: Intra Grain wins gold at #CFPS14
Watch Kyle Folk, President of Intra Grain Technologies, describe their product Bin Sense with fan control, which won the company a gold award for agricultural innovation at the 2014 edition of Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina Saskatchewan.
Video: Power Pin wins gold at #CFPS14
Watch Brian Olson, President of Power Pin Inc., show off one of the two gold-winning products at the 2014 edition of Canada’s Farm Progress show.
Video: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – March 22, 2014.
In this week’s video: Prairie grain shipments are showing signs of improvement; Road bans are coming on in some rural municipalities; Back-to-work legislation contemplated for the truckers’ strike affecting the Port of Vancouver; Concerns over Ukraine’s corn production because of the crisis in Crimea; Hog and pork prices posted new records; Michele Payn-Knoper, an author, […] Read more
Video: Canada’s Weekly Farm Update – March 15, 2014.
In this week’s video: Unhappy rail lines, Canada and South Korea make a trade deal; a look at what’s affecting ag prices in McMillan’s Markets; Joanne Paulson talks rail lines in the Editor’s Notebook; spring runoff predictions; varying kernel weights and canola plant populations; cattails processed with straw to make hybrid fuel cubes; Syngenta breeders […] Read more
Agriculture companies launch effort to standardize, secure farm data
CHICAGO (Reuters) — Purdue University researchers and a group of agricultural companies on Tuesday announced an open source project to standardize farm data formats and improve communication between farm equipment and farm management tools made by different companies. The Open Agriculture Data Alliance, or OADA, will also seek to set standards on data privacy and […] Read more
New Deere runs fast through the fields
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Deere has entered the high speed planting business. High speed planting, which uses narrower machines to go faster, has been big news in agricultural machinery circles the past couple of years. A few Australian and North American farm machinery companies have air seeding equipment that will travel 10 m.p.h. or more, but […] Read more
Video: Weekly Canadian agricultural news & markets update – Feb. 8, 2014
The weekly agricultural news and markets cast from The Western Producer brings the week’s top stories and latest markets headlines to life. Western Producer markets editor D’Arce McMillan and Managing Editor Mike Raine deliver a look behind the headlines in this weekly video segment. In this week’s news and markets cast they, along with WP […] Read more
#Harvest13 photo contest winners
At The Western Producer this past fall we decided to create an online home for your harvest 2013 photos. The result was outstanding. More than 330 images were shared with our online editors during and shortly after the fall harvest. They came by Facebook, by Twitter and email, they filled our Facebook […] Read more
