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Nothing Passé About Old MacDonald’s Approach

By Tim Freeman May 21, 2009

Manitoba’s farm media is full of the same story. The stories have different headlines and characters, but the main issue is as recurring as the beat of a drum. “What’s wrong with Prairie agriculture? What’s wrong with the AgriStability program? What’s happening to commodity, fertilizer, and cattle prices?” Sometimes columnists allude to the problems that

Country Crossroads, Dairy cattle

Massive Dairy Farm A Forgotten Chapter In Manitoba History

By Ron Friesen May 14, 2009

“He was a pretty amazing guy.” – LOUIS BALCAEN They stand like lonely, abandoned sentinels – two massive concrete silos in an empty field gazing sightlessly at the sky. They and a few nearby tumbledown buildings are all that’s left of what was once one of the largest dairy farms in North America. At its

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Finding A Better Farm Story

By Laura Rance-Unger April 23, 2009

One of the hardest jobs for a newspaper editor is deciding each week’s front-page lineup. Generally speaking, the stories chosen should carry some special significance that makes them newsworthy; they need to be unique, unusual, or just plain interesting. That’s how a rather mundane story about dairy farming wound up on the front page of

News

Corporate Farming Arrives On The Prairies

By Rod Nickel April 9, 2009

“This industry has been looking for additional capital… Agriculture is a great place to be.” – LARRY RUUD, ONE EARTH FARMS Aone-million-acre grain and cattle farm planned by Sprott Resource Corp. represents a fork in the Prairie road for Canadian agriculture, but the super-farm’s president and chief executive says family farms have more to gain

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

U. S. Dairy Group To Trim Herd

By K.t. Arasu April 9, 2009

CA 4A MANUFACTURING MILK PRICE VS. F. O. CLASS IV Per CWT. $22.00 $21.00 $20.00 $19.00 $18.00 $17.00 $16.00 $15.00 $14.00 $13.00 $12.00 $11.00 $10.00 $9.00 Jan- 00 Jul- 00 Jan- 01 Jul- 01 Jan- 2 0 Jul- 02 Jan- 03 Jul- 03 Jan- 04 Jul- 04 Jan- 5 0 Jul- 05 Jan- 06 Jul-

Crops

Remote Monitoring A Keystroke Away

By Gord Gilmour March 5, 2009

When Bruce Shewfelt was looking for examples of remote irrigation monitoring one Saturday afternoon, all he had to do was log on to the Internet from his Morden office. The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration consultant was almost immediately downloading information on reservoir levels, downstream flows below the reservoir and current use rates – from an

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

U. S. Dairy Farms In Crisis As Milk Prices Turn Sour

By Karl Plume February 26, 2009

“When 50 per cent of your total cost doubles then the bottom line suffers severely.” – CALIFORNIA DAIRYMAN JOHN FISCALINI Illinois farmer Linnea Kooistra expects to keep her 250-cow dairy farm afloat despite a rising tide of red ink caused by a collapse in milk prices, but other U. S. dairy farmers may be forced

Opinion

Why support farmers who don’t need it?

By Paul Beingessner February 12, 2009

American President Barack Obama is creating a bit of a stir in agriculture circles. For one thing, he has indicated he’ll bring in a ban on meat packers owning cattle. This has been a long time on the wish list of American ranchers, who believe that when packers own cattle, they are able to manipulate

News

Small farms seen spurring U. S. farm growth

By Christopher Doering February 12, 2009

There are nearly 76,000 more U. S. farms than a few years ago but new operations tend to be smaller, more diversified and have lower sales than the average farm, according to Agriculture Department data released on Feb. 4. A USDA census taken every five years found four per cent more farms in 2007 than

Cereals, Livestock, Livestock Markets

Lots of barley to feed western cattle

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 1, 2009

Large domestic feed grain supplies should help underpin the Canadian cattle sector for the time being by giving it a competitive advantage compared to the U. S., according to an industry analyst who thought the Canadian cattle market was looking reasonably well supported heading into the new year. Market analyst Herb Lock of Farm$ense Marketing

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soy futures hit June 2024 high as China ramps up buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rebound after tariff reduction news

Canadian food, agriculture coalition to underscore CUSMA importance in Washington

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