Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has announced a change to the Advance Payments Program (APP) that aims to help producers finance record high input costs heading into the 2022 planting season. The federal government is temporarily waiving the requirement that cash advances issued prior to seeding be disbursed in two instalments — 60 per cent up… Read More
The Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) passed a resolution to pursue a farmer plebiscite to amalgamate with Alberta Barley at their annual general meeting (AGM) January 26. Alberta Barley passed a similar resolution during their AGM in Banff last month, giving the two commissions the ability to conduct a farmer plebiscite on the future of the… Read More
What are the risks for the 2022 crop? Weather, of course, is always a factor, but what about the markets? What if we can compared the risks of the market declining, to the possibility of input prices further rising? Margins could be a heck of a lot tighter next year, unless commodity prices make moves… Read More
Welcome to this Thursday, Farmer Rapid Fire edition of RealAg Radio. Today’s show is pretty jam-packed and you’ll hear from: Terry Phillips of New Liskeard, Ont.; Drew Spoelstra of Binbrook, Ont.; Fred Greig of Reston, Man.; Mike Beckie of Davidson, Sask.; and, Greg Sears of Sexsmith, Alta. Thoughts on something we talked about on the… Read More
Welcome to this Thursday, Farmer Rapid Fire edition of RealAg Radio! On today’s show you’ll hear from: Terry Philips of New Liskeard, Ont., who farms an hour south of the 49th parallel, and is dealing with huge re-plant numbers; Drew Spoelstra of Binbrook, Ont., where the fields are pretty dry but most of the crops… Read More
Representatives from Alberta’s crop commissions held a conference call with Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier and senior officials with Alberta’s Agricultural Financial Services Corporation on Wednesday to discuss the need for intervention to help producers with the one million acres of 2016 crop still in the field. “Team Alberta” — the provincial canola, wheat, barley and… Read More
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