This ad in our April 18, 1968 issue offered a Nuffield 10/60 for $4,505 complete at 18 dealerships in Manitoba and one in Thunder Bay.
Alongside that ad was a story which said that a lack of snow across the Prairies over the past winter was a threat to North America’s dwindling duck population. It said that to counter the threat, the federal wildlife service had offered incentives to farmers to leave “swampy areas” undrained. “It is yet too early to say what success the new program has had,” the story said.
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Another story quoted a CPR vice-president who told a meeting that a full change to hopper cars was unlikely for the grain fleet. He said they were higher in capacity and easier to unload than hopper cars, but the capital cost of changing over would be prohibitive.
A story on a report from the federal research station at Melfort said that good yields were possible on stubble if up-to-date farming practices were used. Tests over five years had shown that wheat on carefully managed stubble could reach 82 per cent of yields on summerfallow. From 1961 to 1968 the Prairie-wide average for yield for wheat on stubble was 71 per cent of wheat on summerfallow.
A brief report from Britain said that a consultant had forecast that farmland would be “devoid of buildings as we know them” and by 2000 land would be covered by plastic bubbles under which a grid of “magic eyes” and radio towers would take over work on crops.
