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Alberta rancher debuts Power Grazer

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Want to try managed grazing techniques to boost grass productivity, but don’t want to spend a lot of time and money driving posts and stringing wires? Norm Ward, a custom grazer and inventor from Granum, Alta., has come up with a self-contained portable electric fencing system that makes dividing up quarter section-sized pastures fast and
Crops, Livestock, News

Work with nature or pay the price, says ex-grain farmer

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Holistic management instructor calls for adoption of farming methods 
that restore soil health and make farmers prosperous

Don’t talk to Blain Hjertaas about “sustainability.” The farmer and holistic management instructor from Redvers, Sask., can’t stand that word. “I hate the word ‘sustainable,’” Hjertaas told the recent Western Canada Holistic Management conference. “If we’re in the toilet bowl, and we keep sustaining it, we aren’t ever getting out.” Hjertaas’s presentation juxtaposed the decline
Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

North/south split in U.S. cattle trends

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released the much-anticipated “Cattle” report on Feb. 1. The semi-annual inventory report confirmed what many cattle market observers had expected: The record-setting drought in the southern Plains in 2011 that expanded into much of the country, including the Corn Belt in 2012, caused lower cattle numbers.
Crops, Oilseeds

Scout your sunflowers, expert urges

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Two dry years in a row doesn’t mean Manitoba sunflower growers can skip scouting for moisture-loving diseases. Producers should always be on the lookout for sclerotinia and rust, Holly Derksen said at the recent Manitoba Special Crops Symposium. “When we do have a wet year, those are ones to watch for,” said Derksen, a plant
Crops, Oilseeds, Weather

Argentine soy crops still thirsty for rain

Buenos Aires / Reuters / The scant rains and high temperatures worrying Argentine farmers since January have started to hit the development of corn and soy, particularly later-planted crops, the Agriculture Ministry said Feb. 15. Rain that fell in the previous few days did not reach many areas in urgent need of water after weeks
Cereals, Crops, Weather

Drought projected in parts of the U.S.

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Reuters / U.S. farmers will plant crops this spring under the shadow of a persistent drought that grips prime farmland from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, with grain supplies already tight from drought losses in 2012. In all, 56 per cent of the contiguous United States is under moderate to exceptional drought, twice
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

A new wheat and barley association another step closer

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Manitoba farmers are a step closer to establishing a new spring wheat and barley association to collect voluntary checkoffs for wheat and barley research and marketing. An interim seven-member board of directors met Feb. 15 in Winnipeg and Dauphin-area farmer Don Dewar, a former president of the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), was selected as chair.
Crops, International news, News

Europe fears cutting farm aid will see remote areas wither

Reducing farm supports and moving toward a more market-oriented farm policy is raising fears that remote communities will wither, according to a member of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee. “There are genuine fears about land abandonment, village decline and a lack of young people in remote parts of the EU,” said Mairead McGuinness. Policies such
Crops, Grain Markets

CWB announces 2011-12 final payments

CWB is issuing final payments to farmers for the wheat, durum wheat and barley delivered during the 2011-12 crop year. Final and total payments for base grades basis Vancouver or St. Lawrence are 1 CWRS, 12.5 per cent $13.79/$290.49; 1 CWAD, 12.5 per cent $14.54/$345.24 and Select CW Two-Row barley $16.34/$312.94. A full list is

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