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Doing It Right, The Small-Scale Way

By Daniel Winters February 4, 2010

“It’s just a matter of putting the four bunks down, putting the rails in, and then just levelling it.” – DARYL NEUSTATER There’s a trick to every trade, so they say. For low-impact logging, that’s especially true. Put a chainsaw into the hands of the average Canadian, and depending upon how much he or she

Crops, Forages, Livestock, News, Other livestock

New Program Insures Pastures For Grazing Days

By Ron Friesen January 28, 2010

“This is a good step forward for the industry.” – GREG JOHNSON, MCPA Anew crop insurance program announced Jan. 19 will give Manitoba cattle producers an innovative way to protect their livestock from feed shortages. The program will insure pastures for a guaranteed number of days for grazing. Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation will launch a

Livestock, News

New Plan To Help Kenyan Pastoralists

By Alister Doyle January 28, 2010

“If it’s successful we will look further afield, in western Africa around the Sahel and southern Asia.” Herders of cows or camels in arid northern Kenya can obtain a new type of insurance against drought – the first of its kind in Africa using satellites to gauge rainfall. Project organizers hope to get about 1,000

Livestock

Canada Farmers Earning Less Income In 2009

By Rod Nickel December 3, 2009

Canadian farmers are earning less so far in 2009 as grain prices have slipped and the United States is buying less Canadian livestock, Statistics Canada said Nov. 24. Farm cash receipts, which include crop and livestock revenues plus payments from government programs, dropped 4.2 per cent to $32.8 billion from January through September compared with

Country Crossroads

Money Grows On Trees

By Daniel Winters November 19, 2009

By actively managing about 100 acres of hardwood forest, David Pogson figures he and his brother Barry’s sawmill sideline might eventually account for about one-third of their farm income within a decade. Out of the seven-acre plot from which they are doing a managed harvest, they have already removed 30 cords of firewood in the

Dairy cattle, Livestock

T – for Nov. 12, 2009

By Daniel Winters November 12, 2009

he behaviourist approach to ranching has won many converts in the United States. One of them, Ray Banister, used the philosophy to develop a new grazing strategy on his 7,200-acre Montana ranch, after 40 years of rotational grazing. Called “boom-bust” management, Banister uses intense periods of grazing followed by two growing seasons of rest. This

Dairy cattle, News

Ethiopia Targets Land For Commercial Farms

By Barry Malone November 12, 2009

Ethiopia plans to offer three million hectares of land over the next two years for investors to develop large-scale commercial farms, a government official said Nov. 5. Countries in Asia and the Gulf – such as China, India and Saudi Arabia – have rushed to buy farmland abroad to grow crops for their own people

Opinion

Answering The Acres Question

By Kevin Hursh October 22, 2009

How much land do you farm? For some reason, it’s socially acceptable to ask a farmer this question. Asking a business person a comparable question about financial capacity or asking a person on a salary or wage about their income level might seem like prying into a personal matter. But, as farmers we tend to

Cereals, Crops, News

In Brief… – for Oct. 1, 2009

October 1, 2009

Winter wheat shunned: Wet fields and weak prices amid already ample world wheat supplies could spell fewer U. S. winter wheat acres planted this fall. Despite some of the best soil moisture seen in years, many farmers in key U. S. growing areas this week were either still evaluating how much wheat to plant or

Country Crossroads

Harvesting Garlic

By Eva Krawchuk August 6, 2009

Homegrown garlic may soon be ready for harvesting and there are guidelines and methods for checking maturity. Some experts recommend digging up when lower leaves are half to three-quarters brown; others when plant is 40 per cent brown, 60 per cent green. Avoid watering two weeks prior to harvesting. Check first to determine if they

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

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