D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops. The video is designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered.
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VIDEO: Seed supplies and conditions for spring 2017
A highly variable fall, with unwanted moisture during harvest has tightened high quality seed supplies in many crops. To get some ideas about what seed condition is like for the season Western Producer managing editor Mike Raine talks with Bruce Carriere from Discovery Seed Labs about seed quality and availability during the Crop Production Show […] Read more
VIDEO: Crop plans and prices at Crop Production Show
Mike Raine, The Western Producer’s managing editor, hits the trade-show floor at the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon to get some opinions about the markets and specialty crop plans for 2017. 0:15 – Brennan Turner, Farmlead 3:10 – Kent Anholt, Rayglen Commodities 5:10 – Scott Shiels, Grain Millers 7:10 – Kevin Hursh
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – January 11, 2017
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops. The video is designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered.
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – January 4, 2017
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops. The video is designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered.
VIDEO: A practical outlook
Manitoba entrepreneur applies personal philosophy about using local, healthy foods to create thriving business
As a rich, marzipan-like scent wafts out of a tiny container of brass-gold oil that she is holding, Mila Maximets muses on years of painstaking efforts to use all parts of the tart cherries she processes. “I’m not into juices,” said Maximets, who has been manufacturing a seabuckthorn puree for five years and has just […] Read more
VIDEO: Molecular farming: small scale work nets big results
Fish poop and green algae might help farms grow without having to expand. That’s the hope for developers of an integrated farming system that could combine grain, fish and algae in a self-sustaining circle. “Molecular farming is a really good option,” Bruce Hardy, president of Myera Group, said during a tour of its laboratory-farm at […] Read more
VIDEO: Building a better bagel
Sometimes the most innovative creation is something that seems exactly like something else, but is actually profoundly different. Such are the regular-looking and good-tasting bagels being eaten at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals. They look like regular wheat bagels. They taste like regular wheat bagels. But the human lab rats consuming the […] Read more
VIDEO: Drones used to target areas for drainage
Unmanned aerial vehicle technology has advanced to the point that an RTK-equipped drone with elevation accuracy of plus or minus five centimetres can find the best route for water across a field. Prairie companies are working together to make every acre pay its way. One topographic-capable un-manned drone is a fixed wing eBee RTK, retailing […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – December 14, 2016
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts a market video about crops. The video is designed to help viewers understand the forces responsible for changes in the trade. If agricultural markets are important to you, we have you covered.
