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Western Canada farmland values soar as growers expand

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Western Canadian farmland is soaring in value, as farmers expand their lands and look to cash in on high crop prices, a report by real estate organization RE/MAX said Sept. 10. The price of high-end grain-producing land in southern Saskatchewan has jumped 20 per cent on average from last year to a range of $1,200
Country Crossroads, News

Sounds of Canada Day on the Farm

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A rooster crows, awakening us from the undisturbed sleep we enjoy in this peaceful country. A squirrel chatters as it hides away nuts, a reminder of this nation’s granaries and freezers and pantries full of food. A meadowlark sings, a celebration of Canada’s wildlife. A dog barks, a reminder of the much broader circle of
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U.S. farmers buying lots of machinery

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U.S. farmers are buying equipment as agricultural finances strengthen, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City said in its quarterly report on national farm lending. “Loans for farm machinery and equipment held at high levels with a sharp jump in the volume of intermediate-term loans,” the bank said in its survey, which included national statistics
Livestock, News

Wet on top, dry down below

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Notoriously wet country looks to better grazing management to solve chronic water infiltration problems

Saskatchewan grazier Neil Dennis figures five centuries of continuous grazing has more to do with the drought affecting the British Isles than a lack of rainfall. “When you get 70 inches of rain, and the water table is dropping, there’s sure something wrong,” said Dennis, who just returned from a U.K. tour where he had
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Glass is still half full for flush American farmers

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Brian Roach scrawled a simple outlook for corn prices in a spiral notebook, with a line diving from the upper left hand corner to the lower right. Sitting in a hotel ballroom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual Agricultural Outlook Forum last week, the commodity broker predicted increasing supplies and weakening demand would slow
Crops, News, Oilseeds

Watch for soybean cyst nematodes in Manitoba

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When Manitoba farmers first started growing soybeans it seemed to be a crop without pests. That changed as the acres grew. Some years aphids and white mould have been problems, and eventually soybean cyst nematode will turn up too, says Albert Tenuta, an extension plant pathologist with Ontario’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
Opinion

The Evolution Of On-Farm Fuel Storage

Manitoba Agricultural Museum release In the summer of 2010, while looking through a scrap pile on a western Manitoba farm for Rumely silo filler parts, a Manitoba Agricultural Museum volunteer made a much more interesting find steel oil barrels. While many readers might be thinking, Steel barrels! Do these people have nothing better to do?
Livestock

More Transparency Needed From China

geneva/reuters China must make its farm sector more transparent and fairer to foreign competition, the United States told the World Trade Organization s agriculture committee Sept. 29, as it reviewed China s first decade in the world trade body. Despite years of U.S. complaints, China still charged 13 per cent value-added tax on imported wheat,
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Your Well Needs Maintenance Too

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It isn t only machinery and buildings that need regular maintenance, your water supply does, too. Un f o r t u n a t e l y, we l l s don t come with a manual and that s one reason why Alberta Agriculture water specialist Melissa Orr says drinking water may be

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