It must be bizarre to live through a political revolution or a war, where there is widespread chaos, violence and confusion. For all the drama, fear and excitement, people still have to feed their families, most still have to go to their jobs, generally people keep paying their bills, visiting their grandmothers and attending sporting […] Read more
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Herbicide Resistance Summit, 2016
The 2016 Herbicide Resistance Summit was held in Saskatoon on March 3, to a full house of farmers and scientists. Robin Booker from The Western Producer teamed up with Lisa Guenther from Grainews and interviewed event presenters. The following video is a collection of their interviews, which include: Australian weed scientist, Ian Heap, is the […] Read more
VIDEO: Canola is weak today, but hope glimmers on the horizon
Day one of the Canola Council of Canada’s main program in San Diego was threaded together with concerns about weak crop prices, volatile markets, food politics and the management skills needed to run businesses in industries that not only involve changing technologies, but also disruptive factors and different expectations. And as always in recent years across […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – March 2, 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. Crops:
VIDEO: Canola, china, protein and surf: The Canola Council of Canada meets in San Diego
Day 2 – Check out Ed’s most recent blog post from the Canola Council of Canada’s annual conference in San Diego – Check out Ed’s video of his conversation with the SciBabe. Perfectly timed, the zeitgeist has thrown two major news items in front of the canola industry right in time for the Canola Council […] Read more
VIDEO: Pain hard to ID in prey animals
Just because a pig isn’t showing pain doesn’t mean it isn’t suffering. Farmers, truckers and pig handlers need to look beyond obvious signs of distress to assess how an injured animal is doing, veterinarian Max Popp of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency told the Manitoba Swine Seminar. “Animals are inclined to hide the pain as […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – Feb. 24, 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. Crops:
VIDEO: Phosphorus deficiency big prairie problem
Fertilizer experts say a serious phosphorus deficiency is developing in western Canadian soil. Rigas Karamanos, senior agronomist with Koch Agronomic Services, has tracked the amount of phosphorus removed from and applied to soil since 2002. There are only two dry years, 2003 and 2004, where farmers applied more than they removed. The remainder of those […] Read more
VIDEO: Early canola crop stress can increase pod size
Canola growers have hormones to thank for last year’s unexpectedly good yields, says an oilseed expert. The hierarchy of reproduction in a canola plant places priority on the first seeds that are set in the plant. “They send a hormone signal to the later developing seeds that they are number one,” Murray Hartman, the provincial […] Read more
VIDEO: Canada’s agricultural markets update – Feb. 17, 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. Crops:
