The weekly agricultural news and markets videocast from The Western Producer brings the week’s top stories and latest markets headlines to life. WP editor Joanne Paulson and markets editor D’Arce McMillan examine the Federal Budget, more PED outbreaks in Canada, hearings over sluggish rail service at the House of Commons Agriculture Committee, the expansion of the […] Read more
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Creating a warm, tasty glow around canola
Commodities like canola get promoted in lots of big and little ways. Big ways are things like national advertising campaigns and promotions. Little ways are many and various, micro methods of reaching a few more folks. The iPhone video I chucked together below comes from an event I attended last week in Brandon. The Manitoba […] Read more
Video: Weekly Canadian agricultural news & markets update – Feb. 8, 2014
The weekly agricultural news and markets cast from The Western Producer brings the week’s top stories and latest markets headlines to life. Western Producer markets editor D’Arce McMillan and Managing Editor Mike Raine deliver a look behind the headlines in this weekly video segment. In this week’s news and markets cast they, along with WP […] Read more
Video: Weekly WP Canadian agricultural news & markets update
January is normally a busy agricultural information month in Western Canada, with several large provincial events taking place. Compounding the normal flow of information and meetings has been the significant transportation issues that have driven delivery basis spreads wider than at any time in recent memory. This week’s Western Producer news and markets video-cast catches […] Read more
Video: Forecaster sees dry growing season ahead
Farmers wanting to know what the weather will be like this spring and summer should reflect back on 1960, 1978 and 1996, says a weather expert. Drew Lerner, president of World Weather Inc., said the 18 year cycle will have the biggest influence on weather patterns in 2014 – watch the WP video here. “I’m […] Read more
Video: If you can make it to Manitoba Ag Days, there’s lots going on
It’s been tough for farmers to get to Manitoba Ag Days this year, with iced roads and strong winds making travel hazardous. Lots of vehicles have ended up in the ditch, so be careful if you’re heading to the show. But for everybody who has been able to make it, there’s the usual array of […] Read more
Video: Crop Production Week
This year at Crop Production Week in Saskatoon reporters from The Western Producer were not only grinding out thousands of words of copy for Canadian producers, they were also shooting video. This is compilation of some of the clips they collected. Longer videos of individual interviews and scrums will accompany stories posted here on The […] Read more
Video: Weekly WP news & markets update
Crop Production Week and a new event, CropSphere, brought together most of the crop commodity groups in Saskatchewan and beyond for a week of meetings, seminars and one of the year’s largest winter farm trade shows in the region last week. The event drew thousands of producers to Saskatoon for five days last week, where […] Read more
Video: Caution was the word for 2014 from St. Jean Farm Days
I attended St. Jean Farm Days Jan. 8 and 9 and came away with the conclusion that “caution” is going to be the hallmark word of the year for 2014. On agronomy I spoke with Manitoba Agriculture’s Ingrid Kristjanson, Anastasia Kubinec and Dennis Lange and they warned farmers to not overuse chemicals like glyphosate, to […] Read more
