If you were unable to catch Kevin Hursh’s presentation at the 2014 edition of Canada’s Farm Progress Show, don’t worry we’ve got you covered. The Western Producer caught up with Hursh after his presentation and asked him what messages he delivered to producers.
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Video: Power Pin wins gold at #CFPS14
Watch Brian Olson, President of Power Pin Inc., show off one of the two gold-winning products at the 2014 edition of Canada’s Farm Progress show.
Canada’s agricultural markets update – June 20, 2014
By D’Arce McMillan Saskatoon newsroom Canola futures closed lower on Friday weighted down by weaker soybeans and soy oil. But over the week, July canola gained $10.70 per tonne and November edged up 80 cents. Slow farmer deliveries are the main reason for the old crop rally. The strength is not spilling into the new […] Read more
Video: Six Product variable rate seeder
Introduced as a smaller scale prototype last year, CleanSeed Agricultural Technologies CX-6 seeder was big hit with farmers and the business crowd. The Vancouver based company changed the usual approach to metering seed, with more electronic management, softer rollers and wireless communication from each run and for each product. Six products are metered on the […] Read more
VIDEO: Smoke, sizzle, squeal, chatter: Sights, sounds and smells of the World Pork Expo
Do you like the smell of pork ribs baking in a cloud of maple and alder wood smoke? Do you like to hear the sizzle of hundreds of pork sausages on a flaming grill? Do you like to feel the snout of a show pig sniffing your pant leg as you walk past her pen? […] Read more
Coming your way Manitoba: A Weedy Nightmare – if you don’t do the right thing
What are farmers going to do when glyphosate and multiple herbicide resistant weeds begin appearing around Manitoba? That’s a question that’s going to likely be answered in the next couple of years, because the plague of glyphosate tolerant weeds that has sickened fields across the U.S. South and Midwest has shambled like a zombie horde […] Read more
Canada’s agricultural markets update, May 30, 2014
Canola futures closed lower Friday, capping a week that saw sharp losses on old and new crop futures. Weaker soy oil, long liquidation and lack of buying all weighed on canola. Although seeding on the eastern side of the Canadian Prairies is lagging the long-term averages, there was progress and that also weighed on canola. […] Read more
Portage and Main ain’t going away (video)
Remember a couple of years ago when there was a lot of worry that the end of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly would mean the unravelling of the Canadian grain trade hub at Portage and Main? I was one of the worried ones. The anxiety was caused by the notion that the CWB was a […] Read more
Canada’s agricultural markets update, May 23, 2014
Canola, soybeans and wheat edged lower on Friday but corn rose a little. The weakness in the soy complex, a stronger Canadian dollar and good seeding weather in Western Canada pressured canola lower. On the day, July fell $3.60 to $487.50 per tonne and November fell $3.10 to $485.80. On the week, July fell 50 […] Read more
Lockup, lockdown, locking out prying eyes in an era where everyone’s wired
Agriculture markets can move violently when U.S. Department of Agriculture reports are issued. And they always draw attention to themselves. For days before important and even only-semi-important reports come out people chatter about what could be in the reports Getting your guess right can mean lots of money if you’ve taken a position in the […] Read more
