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As Canada Farm Values Rise, Investment Kept Limited

By Carey Gillam November 25, 2010

Growing investor interest in high production farmland in Canada’s Saskatchewan is helping push up farmland values, but the province’s limits on foreign agriculture investment are not likely to ease any time soon, according to a leading agriculture official. Saskatchewan is one of several Canadian provinces that restricts farmland ownership by non-Canadians. The Farm Land Security

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy Farm Numbers Shrinking

By Ron Friesen October 21, 2010

The number of dairy farmers in Manitoba continues to fall rapidly. The province currently has 354 registered milk producers, seven per cent fewer than in 2009-10, according to Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. The rate of loss is steeper than in the two previous years. The number of producers declined by four per cent in 2008-09

Livestock

Rancher Tries Out New Grazing Strategy – for Sep. 9, 2010

By Daniel Winters September 9, 2010

When some ranchers get on in years, they get to be like a ball of rusty old barbed wire. Before even thinking about straightening them out – or talking about newfangled ideas in the cattle business – proceed with caution. But for Ron Batho, 74, who has been ranching near Oak Lake since 1952, trying

Livestock, Opinion

The Last Straw – for Aug. 5, 2010

By Laura Rance-Unger August 5, 2010

Cattle producers whose pastures are flooded and forage producers whose stands are drowned may well be in need of assistance this year, just like producers of annual crops. However, there are good reasons why the province should be reluctant to comply with a request to waive Crown lease fees to ranchers whose grazing lands are

Livestock

Can Cattle And Trees Get Along? – for Aug. 5, 2010

By Daniel Winters August 5, 2010

A10-year study just east of Duck Mountain Provincial Park is finding cattle and logging can coexist. “Timber harvesting and livestock grazing has always been seen as conflicting resource use,” said Bill Gardiner, a MAFRI rangelands specialist based in Dauphin, in a presentation on the 10-year Garland Project. When Louisiana-Pacific began harvesting hardwoods on leased Crown

Country Crossroads, Forages

RREA RELEASE

June 17, 2010

The Red River Exhibition Association (RREA) announc ed June 7 that the multi-generational Chapman clan from Virden has been chosen as its 2010 Farm Family of the Year. “The Chapman family exemplifi es the qualities recognized by this annual award, established in 1966 to profile the diversity of primary agriculture in Manitoba as well as

Crops

Putting Fertilizer Where It’s Needed

By Ron Friesen April 15, 2010

“We’re trying to match the nutrient requirements to the production.” – WADE BARNES, FARMERS EDGE Last year, about eight million pounds of phosphorus fertilizer – roughly equivalent to 150 semi-truckloads – were not applied on 750,000 acres of cropland in Western Canada. It wasn’t needed. Credit Farmers Edge and variable rate technology for the cost

News

Research Sought On Metals In Feed

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 8, 2010

The Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative plans to back new research on sources and levels of metals in livestock’s feed, drinking water and manure, plus those metals’ effects on crops and soils. “Research suggests that most metals in manure are present at such low levels that it would take over a century of manure application

Cereals, Livestock, News

Rice Production Plan Could Be Controversial

By Avril Premiere April 1, 2010

“If you grew a quarter section of this stuff, on a hot day in July the area for miles would smell like a Polish sausage factory.” Scientists at the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg are refusing to comment on reports that they have developed a winter-hardy variety of rice suitable for production on the Canadian

Country Crossroads

What Can We Learn From Hawaii?

By Albert Parsons March 18, 2010

In agriculture, we often hear the terms value added, sustainability, organic, and gate to plate; some growers are becoming interested in ag-tourism. On a recent visit to the island of Maui, Hawaii, this winter I had the pleasure of touring O’o Farm in the upcountry region of this beautiful Hawaiian island and discovered an excellent

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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