D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts two markets videos, crops and livestock. The videos are 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: […] Read more
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Video series: Fertilizer return on investment
In this video series on fertilizer return on investment, The Western Producer talks with three fertilizer researchers: Rigas Karamanos, Jeff Schoenau and Tom Jensen. Accompanying stories can be read below. Part one of our multi-part series Fertilizer Return on Investment. Fertilizer won’t pay off without a plan Producers have the financial wherewithal to take […] Read more
Canola’s magic number?
CORRECTION – March 19, 2015 – This story originally stated the 2014 canola crop was 13 million tonnes – the correct figure is 15.6 million tonnes. BANFF, Alta. — It was easy last March to set a 26 million tonne canola production target by 2025 after farmers grew an 18 million tonne crop in 2013. […] Read more
VIDEO: New hive design makes honey collection easier
There’s a buzz in the beekeeping world about a new method of extracting honey from the hive. The Flow Hive is a patented split cell technology developed by Stuart and Cedar Anderson of New South Wales, Australia. The father and son apiarists said they have spent more than 10 years developing their flow frames with […] Read more
Program puts students in shoes of subsistence farmers
Canadian Foodgrains Bank initiative offers insight into the lives of small-scale farmers in countries without food security
WINNIPEG — “Has anyone heard of a country called Burkina Faso?” Roberta Gramlich asked the Grade 7 students meeting in the Linden Meadows school library. No one moved or made a sound for five seconds, until a female student timidly raised her hand. “In Asia?” Gramlich smiled and didn’t seem troubled by the incorrect guess, […] Read moreSask. premier hints at hike in education property tax
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall is contemplating rebalancing the way education is funded in the province. The education property tax is one of the plethora of programs under review as the province comes to grips with a $700 million reduction in oil revenues. “Everything has to be on the table as we work towards a balanced […] Read more
What it’ll take to get canola to 52 bushels per acre and 26 million tonnes
Jacking-up canola yields to 52 bushels an acre and 26 million tonnes in Canada annually by 2025 is a daunting goal, requiring a lot of things to go right. Yesterday each of the speakers at the Canola Council of Canada’s annual convention here in Banff gave their two-cents on what they think it will require […] Read more
Video: Canada’s agricultural markets updates – March 3, 2015
D’Arce McMillan, The Western Producer markets editor, monitors trends in the North American and global agricultural markets. Each week he hosts two markets videos, crops and livestock. The videos are 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: […] Read more
Canola Council of Canada, Banff – Farmers getting towards 52 bushels per acre?
If you need a canola industry leader right now, you’ll have trouble finding one on the Prairies. Most have moved hundreds of metres higher into the first fold of the Rocky Mountains, up to Banff, where the Canola Council of Canada is holding its annual convention. Some industry-related events began happening on the weekend and […] Read more
COOL not cool or consistent in US trade agenda
PHOENIX, Arizona — U.S. agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack has conceded that country-of-origin labelling contradicts his government’s international trade promotion policies and free trade agreements. “The Congress has directed us to do one thing, which is to label, designate and identify U.S. made products,” Vilsack told the Commodity Classic conference in Phoenix last week. “That, in […] Read more
