Grainews, written for farmers, and often by farmers, provides practical production tips that farmers use to get on with the day-to-day business of farming.

Oct 4, 2024 · An on-farm weather station doesn’t make the crop grow better, but farmers and agrologists using the technology say real-time information about precipitation, wind, temperature and soil moisture reserves can help guide decisions about if or when to apply crop inputs — and provide a good indication of what yield they might expect.

Jan 15, 2025 · We start this forecast period with an area of low-pressure sliding southeastwards through the southern Northwest Territories and into northern Manitoba. This low is pulling mild air northwards, which means a continuation of mild temperatures in Alberta, while Saskatchewan and Manitoba are seeing a rapid rebound from the cold start to the week.

Oct 22, 2024 · The Canadian Prairies Trusted Advisor Partnership (TAP) plans to launch its first cohort of about 15 agronomists in January 2025. It will serve as a Canadian counterpart to the North Dakota Trusted Advisor Partnership, which was founded in 2022 to provide soil health training to certified crop advisors in that state.

Jan 19, 2025 · A good starting place for variety selection is the CMBTC’s annual Malting Barley Recommended Varieties list. Established varieties like AAC Synergy and CDC Copeland remain farmer favourites, while newer varieties such as AAC Connect, CDC Fraser, and CDC Churchill are quickly gaining in popularity.

Jan 4, 2025 · The problem is, those premiums don’t come easily. Shawn Pasieczka, a food safety grain specialist with Richardson, is the arbiter of what makes the cut and what doesn’t, and ultimately whether a farmer is sitting on $1 million of malt barley or $600,000 of feed.

Jan 4, 2025 · Please note the following list includes only brand-new variety releases for 2025. READ MORE: New tools could speed up development of cereal varieties Alliance Seed. CWRS: CDC Envy is an early-maturity, semi-dwarf spring wheat with high yield potential, yielding 14 per cent more than the check cultivar average in the 2018-2020 Parkland Cooperative Wheat Trials.

Nov 5, 2024 · Joseph B. Gurba, 1922-2009. photo: Alberta Agriculture What caught my attention to write up the Joe Gurba story was an unpublished paper he wrote in 2002 for a Ukrainian Association meeting, titled From Peasant Farmer to Master Farmer: The Impact of Ukrainian Agrologists on the Transformation of Agriculture in Rural East-Central Alberta.This write-up outlined the first Ukrainians to farm in ...

Nov 7, 2024 · Elaine writes: “Fair family price” versus “fair market value price” (or FFP vs. FMV) is often a tense conversation between a farm’s founders, needing to sell assets for their personal income stream, and a buyer, often the cash-strapped successor on the farm. To offer readers some wisdom on this conversation I asked our coaching teammate Glenn Dogterom, CPA, to offer his experience ...

Feb 1, 2025 · I am keenly interested in cow depreciation and in fact have written about it in past Grainews columns. It is one of the largest direct expenses on a cow-calf operation — usually only behind feed — and it is worth touching on again in the wake of current record-high prices.