Even though yields are down and the price is not inspiring, canola is the crop that will pay the bills on a lot of prairie farms this year. However, if you farm in an area that can grow large green lentils or chickpeas, those crops show returns that eclipse canola. While the recent estimates from […] Read more
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Good year for large green lentils and chickpeas
Former minister faces charges
Former Saskatchewan cabinet minister and Kindersley MLA Bill Boyd will appear in court this fall on environmental charges. He faces three counts under The Environmental Management and Protection Act, 2010 and one count under The Wildlife Habitat Protection Act (WHPA). Boyd allegedly altered the shoreline and habitat on farmland near Eston, Sask. If he is […] Read more
Sask Party gets new faces as ministers resign to seek top job
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall shuffled his cabinet Aug. 30 after five ministers stepped down to run to replace him. Wall will resign after the Sask-atchewan Party leadership convention Jan. 27. The cabinet now includes six ministers who retained their current positions, five current ministers who changed portfolios, and five new members, four of them first-time […] Read more
New conservative ministers get trade, agriculture portfolios
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer named a new shadow cabinet last week and it doesn’t include two of his Saskatchewan colleagues. David Anderson was agriculture critic prior to the duties announced Aug. 30. Taking over at international trade is Dean Allison from Niagara West, while Luc Berthold from Megantic-L’Erable and associate John Barlow from Foothills in […] Read more
MBP outlines wish list to fulfil new gov’ts expansion agenda
Last summer, Manitoba’s agriculture minister made a comment that surprised many cattle industry leaders. Ralph Eichler, during a field tour north of Brandon, said Manitoba’s beef industry should expand the herd and aim for a target of 750,000 beef cows. The number was ambitious, as Manitoba had about 440,000 beef cows at the time. It’s […] Read more
U.S. must jump hurdles before beef heads to China
CALGARY — A deal that re-opened beef trade between the United States and China, an-nounced in May, won’t see major product flow for at least three years, says an American beef trade expert. Don Close, vice-president of animal protein with Rabo AgriFinance, said it will take at least that long for the U.S. beef supply […] Read more
Ag can’t afford to pay for NAFTA
New negotiations around the North American Free Trade Agreement isn’t the only threat to supply management. It had plenty of threats from within the country but the NAFTA talks now underway give supply management opponents a bandwagon on which to climb. Worth $6.2 billion in farm receipts annually, and once separated, fractionated and value added, […] Read more
Succession questions answered
When Merle Good looks at all the changes and complexities introduced by proposed changes to farm taxes, he understands why farmers might get confused. But the Alberta farm succession and estate planning specialist says farmers can understand a lot by just thinking about three pointed questions, rather than all the fine print, at least as […] Read more
Russia may set wheat production, export record
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Global wheat prices are again under pressure as the production problems in North America are more than offset by the record breaking harvest that Russian farmers are currently gathering. SovEcon, one of the leading agriculture consultancies in Moscow, last week raised its forecast for Russia’s 2017-18 grain exports. Total grain exports are […] Read more
Preventing fetal alcohol syndrome is couple’s responsibility
Q: My girlfriend and I are party animals. Most weekends, we are out with friends having a drink or two, and it is hard to imagine anything going on around here without the two of us being at the centre of it. But we are now pregnant and she wants to quit drinking and expects […] Read more
