Photo is courtesy of BugMan50 Dennis McKnight, The Innovators, spoke at Tiffin Conference 2010 about the ability of the Canadian beef industry to compete globally. Dennis has clients around the world who he assists in developing markets for their products. Dennis believes that Canadian beef can compete but we may need to rethink how we… Read More
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At the Tiffin Conference at the Lethbridge College, one of the most popular speakers was Ryan Kasko from the Kasko Cattle Co. Ryan talked about his 2008 trip to Brazil and what some of his observations were. Ryan travelled to Brazil and visited ranches and feedyards. Ryan talks about the fact that Brazilian beef tastes… Read More
Kevin Hursh from Hursh Consulting and Communications, took the time at the end of the exhausting week at CropWeek 2010 to sit down and chat about the week. I discussed with Kevin the highlights and lowlights of the week. This was definitely a week where people had lots to talk about in the meetings hallways… Read More
It is no secret that durum prices are less than fantastic. Spring wheat is currently in somewhat of a better position but has its own issues on the supply side. Many farmers at CropWeek were really wondering how much durum they would plant this coming spring with the glut that is preventing any probability of… Read More
I talked to Dustin Gosnell, Director of Strategic Planning and Corporate Policy, Canadian Wheat Board about GM wheat and the CWB’s position on the latest WTO issues. Agricultural trade issues are really sensitive and controversial issues right now. Never mind the trade issues that North America has with China and the other BRIC countries but the… Read More
I find that the grain logistics system in Canada is under a lot of criticism quite often. I have heard several people in the last twelve months say to me that our rail handling system needs to be fixed. So far, I have heard a lot of “the system is broken” but not of a… Read More
Buying a combine has become a much larger decision than in the past. Combines are a piece of equipment that you use only in the fall but are incredibly important to getting the crop in the bin. Like most pieces of machinery they have become more sophisticated although the threshing concept is still based on… Read More
I have seen some of my grandfather Mehalko’s old farming photos where they were seeding with twelve foot drills. That twelve foot drill had a relatively inaccurate rate seeding tool and it was fairly difficult to manage depth. All of this and not to mention the open cab. I visited the SeedHawk booth to check… Read More
In my opinion, inoculants are a very interesting product. Products like Nodulator fix Nitrogen which has benefits for this years soybean or pulse crop but also has extreme benefits for next years cereal crop to. Its one of those amazing innovations in agriculture that we take for granted sometimes until you really sit down and… Read More
Last year at this time you could not talk to any farmer in North America without talking about fertilizer. Fertilizer is still a hot topic but it is more centred now around variable rate technology or products like ESN. ESN allows farmers to apply more fertilizer at seeding time due to the timed slow release… Read More