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Currency risk protection offered

By Allan Dawson March 23, 2012

Volatile currencies can hurt your bottom line more than changes in commodity prices. That’s why the Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), in conjunction with Western Union Business Solutions, is introducing a new foreign exchange risk-management program. “If it makes sense to a producer, we can provide a solution,” said Mark Kelly, Western Union Business Solutions’ senior

Cereals, Crops, News

Cigi being wooed to move to Saskatoon

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

Fears that scrapping the monopoly-powered wheat board could undermine Winnipeg’s grain sector hegemony were bolstered with news Saskatoon wants Cigi (Canadian International Grains Institute) to move there. The offer came Nov. 29 during a meeting with Saskatoon economic development group representatives, Rex Newkirk, Cigi’s director of research and business development said in an interview March

Dairy cattle, Opinion

Organic research achieving critical mass in science

By Martin Entz March 14, 2012

The modern organic agriculture movement started 100 years ago. Sir Albert Howard was an English mycologist who served as the imperial economic botanist to the government of India between 1905 and 1924. He was fascinated by the indigenous practices of Indian farmers, whom he called his professors. His 1940 book, An Agricultural Testament, has become

Crops, Forages, News

Weeds helped save his farm

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

Weeds aren’t always a farmer’s enemy. Sometimes they’re an ally. Grant Rigby says weeds helped him tackle soil salinity on his farm near Killarney and led him into organic agriculture. “The fundamental reason I dropped herbicide spraying was to allow plants to live on those areas of the farm where the crops I planted were

Crops, News

Science behind organic systems gains ground

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

Organic agriculture’s critics routinely claim the practice is more philosophy than agronomy — and the worst cut of all — lacking in “sound science.” Not anymore. Organic is pushing back one peer-reviewed research paper at a time. “We can claim science and we are,” declared Ralph Martin at the opening of the first Canadian Organic

News

Renowned ag economist’s memory lives on

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

The Daryl F. Kraft Memorial Endowment Fund was established in the memory of respected University of Manitoba agricultural economist Daryl Kraft who died in 2003. In addition to funding an annual lecture on agricultural policy, the endowment provides a prize for an agricultural policy paper prepared by an undergraduate student and a fellowship for a

Hogs, Livestock, Livestock Markets, News

THE ASIAN MARKET: Opportunities and risks

By Allan Dawson March 14, 2012

It could be a great time to be a North American hog producer, then again, it might not be. Either way grain farmers win, according to this year’s Kraft Lecturer. Asia needs a lot more meat. It’s cheaper to produce pork in North America, so North American pork exports should, in theory, increase, according to

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Don’t put wet canola in bags, ag researcher advises

By Daniel Winters March 14, 2012

Grain bags have a lot of attractive features for farmers. But are they good for storing canola? The answer is both yes and no, says Digvir Jayas, a University of Manitoba professor. “They market these bags as sealed, air tight, but our research shows that they are not as air tight as the companies would

Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

Economics versus culture

By Laura Rance-Unger March 14, 2012

Dermot Hayes, a respected livestock economist from Iowa State University, is admittedly flummoxed over the question of whether it will be grain producers or the livestock sector benefiting from the growing demand for protein in emerging economies. Hayes was in town last week delivering the annual Kraft Lecture, a memorial to the late University of

Hogs, Livestock, News, Opinion

The economics of animal welfare

By Laura Rance-Unger March 5, 2012

Back in the early 1990s, when University of Manitoba animal scientist Laurie Connor first oversaw local research into hoop-housing systems for hogs, animal welfare wasn’t really even on the public radar. The key questions of the day were whether keeping pigs outdoors through a Prairie winter compromised production efficiency. Connor told a seminar last week

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soy rally continues after Trump says China to expand purchases

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures fall after strike authorization vote

U.S. farm income set to fall in 2026 despite surge in government payments

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Currency risk protection offered

Cigi being wooed to move to Saskatoon

Organic research achieving critical mass in science

Weeds helped save his farm

Science behind organic systems gains ground

Renowned ag economist’s memory lives on

THE ASIAN MARKET: Opportunities and risks

Don’t put wet canola in bags, ag researcher advises

Economics versus culture

The economics of animal welfare

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