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Run Your Diesel Engine On Ethanol, Water And Diesel

By Allan Dawson April 29, 2010

Suggest burning a mix of ethanol and water in a diesel engine and most farmers would give you a strange look and advice on places to go. But tell them it’s supposed to boost fuel efficiency, reduce emissions and extend engine life and you’ll have their attention. Ron Preston, president and Kevin Kenney, biofuel systems

Crops

Agri-Food Exporters Caught In Ocean Shipping Shortage

By Alex Binkley April 1, 2010

Agri-food exporters are among the groups caught in a shortage of ocean shipping capacity that threatens Canada’s economic recovery, warns a Montreal freight forwarder. The dearth of export container capacity from Canadian ports “is more harmful to the recovery of our economy than the high value of the loonie,” says Jean-Paul Gobeil, director of international

News

Farm Safety Audits Made Easy

By Barani Krishnan March 18, 2010

header photos courtesy of canadian agricultural safety association Farm safety audits need not be a daunting task. For many, the hard part seems to be actually getting started. However everyone benefits from a farm safety audit by having a safer home and workplace – and it is easier than you think. “Plan Farm Safety” is

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Livestock, Other livestock

Federal Beef-Packing Assistance Welcomed

By Alex Binkley March 18, 2010

“These measures address a real threat to the long-term profitability of the Canadian cattle industry.” – BRAD WILDEMAN Packers and cattle groups say assistance announced in the federal budget will make their sector more competitive. The budget allocated an extra $10 million for the Slaughter Improvement Program, $25 million for packing plants that handle animals

Hogs, Livestock, News

Depression Seminars Draw Small Audiences

By Ron Friesen March 4, 2010

“People don’t want to be perceived to be associated with depression.” – GERRY FRIESEN Poor attendance at two recent rural workshops on depression emphasizes the need to explode taboos about openly discussing mental illness, organizers say. Fewer than a dozen people in each case attended public meetings in Morris and Arborg last week to talk

News

More Than One Way To Learn

By Daniel Winters February 4, 2010

suPPlied Photo It all started with a pig. The pig, a gift from his father, was fed to market weight and then sold. Most kids his age would have spent the money on foolishness, but the young Kevin Hruska sunk his newfound wealth into a router and woodworking tools. With the router, he then made

Cereals, Crops

Ag Sector Pressured By Lower Crop Prices

By Rod Nickel February 4, 2010

A plunge in grain prices to start 2010 has pressured shares of some Canadian agricultural companies, but the pullback may be short lived given the industry’s strong long-term fundamentals. Analysts said the multiyear trend of improving diets in populous, developing countries like China and India remains intact, suggesting investors may find opportunities after recent price

Crops

FNA Awaits Approval Process For Generics

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 14, 2010

Anew line of ag chemicals to be distributed through Farmers of North America (FNA) is waiting on federal passage of a new regulatory process for generics, the group says. The Saskatoon-based group, which brokers deals for lower-cost imports of ag inputs on members’ behalf in the West, Ontario and Quebec, has launched a new brand,

News

Cheap Loans Buoy Canada Farmers In Recession

By Rod Nickel January 7, 2010

Canadian farmers have survived a year of recession with the ratio of debt to equity little changed and optimism still in place, said a key official with Canada’s top farm-lending institution. Cheap access to credit in Canada, in contrast to that in the United States, has been the key to the relatively buoyant agriculture economy,

Beef cattle, Livestock

U. S. Entrepreneur Says There Is A Better Way To Raise Beef

By Laura Rance-Unger December 10, 2009

If Todd Churchill is right, he’s come up with a grass-fed beef production model that could pull the rug out from under confinement grain-fed livestock-feeding systems. “In my opinion, confinement livestock is about to be thrown virtually off the bus,” Churchill told a Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council strategic planning session Nov. 30. “In 10 years,

Daily Network News

Farmers see fertilizer price surge as Iran war blocks exports, threatening losses

OPINION: How the Iran war could create a ‘fertilizer shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming

Farmers expected to boost canola area beyond Statistics Canada intentions report

Tag Archives machinery

Run Your Diesel Engine On Ethanol, Water And Diesel

Agri-Food Exporters Caught In Ocean Shipping Shortage

Farm Safety Audits Made Easy

Federal Beef-Packing Assistance Welcomed

Depression Seminars Draw Small Audiences

More Than One Way To Learn

Ag Sector Pressured By Lower Crop Prices

FNA Awaits Approval Process For Generics

Cheap Loans Buoy Canada Farmers In Recession

U. S. Entrepreneur Says There Is A Better Way To Raise Beef

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