WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) — The U.S. commerce department set preliminary antidumping duties on imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia after an initial finding that the product was being sold at prices below market value in the United States. The antidumping duties range from 54.36 to 70.05 percent on soy-based biodiesel from Argentina and 50.71 […] Read more
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Antidumping duties set on Argentine, Indonesian biodiesel
Anti-science revolution could cut grain production
You don’t hear the agriculture boom theory repeated as often anymore. You know, the one where farmers live happily ever after with grain prices that never sink below the cost of production? For most of the last decade, at nearly every gathering of farmers someone would trot out the theory that the future had to […] Read more
Glyphosate misinformation continues
The freedom to share an opinion on a mass scale used to come with more responsibilities. There was a responsibility to inform and not to mislead. If you did too much of the latter, often the platform on which you preached would fail after the money to maintain it ran out. Folks who read your […] Read more
B.C. Young Farmers offers networking opportunities
British Columbia Young Farmers is trying to strengthen the province’s next generation of farmers. “We strengthen it by providing networking opportunities for farmers to interact with their cohorts,” said Jillian Robbins, a board member with B.C. Young Farmers. “We also do educational workshops and sometimes day learning things so we will bring in speakers or […] Read more
Rural Canadians face health issues, food insecurity: report
Canadians living in rural communities are more likely to have poorer health outcomes than their urban counterparts, Canada’s chief public health officer says. In her inaugural report on healthy living released Oct. 26, Dr. Theresa Tam said rural Canadians were more likely to report they were in poor or fair health and tended to have […] Read more
Sex vs. intimacy
Q: Ever since my husband started taking those little blue pills a few weeks ago, our sex life has improved immensely. It is still not as robust as it was when we were first married many years ago, but it is a huge step up from the frustrations we have experienced more recently. I do […] Read more
Digital agriculture: the next green revolution?
Data collection methods are still emerging but the transformation change in the industry is exciting, says farmer
The adoption of digital technology on the farm represents the next Green Revolution in agricultural production. That’s according to business leaders who attended the 2017 Farms.com Precision Agriculture Conference in Saskatoon Oct. 25. “We absolutely think the next green revolution in agriculture is going to be centred on data and data science,” said Denise Hockaday, […] Read moreLights out on wheat, durum, barley contracts
What happens when a mall begins losing tenants and dark storefronts begin appearing? Shoppers will continue to go there for a little while, but there will be fewer of them, and then more shops will close and fewer and fewer people will visit the mall. Eventually it will become like a ghost town and usually […] Read more
U.S. farmers tighten belts as prices drop
CHICAGO, Ill. (Reuters) — When Kansas farmer Tom Giessel drove over a deer carcass and punctured a tire on his combine during harvest this fall, he did not have the time or cash to fix it. He borrowed his neighbour’s tractor to finish. U.S. farmers are cutting costs any way they can to compete with […] Read more
Input Capital expands interests in prairie canola; expects strong growth
Regina-based commodities broker Input Capital Corp. is continuing to expand its foothold in the prairie canola industry. Financial documents released by Input Capital last month show the publicly traded company had canola reserves of 405,000 tonnes as of Sept. 30, 2017, up from 259,000 tonnes a year earlier. The company now has canola supply or […] Read more
