As soybean varieties are developed to offer shorter season early maturity, higher yields, and higher protein levels, they are becoming an addition to crop rotation plans in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. According to Manitoba Agriculture, up until the mid-1990s, soybean varietal improvements had been slow to reach the grower, but since that time there have been [...]
Insights into Ag Business from our Marketing and Business Solutions Agronomist, Matt Owens Farmers are in in a volatile risk environment due to many fundamental changes in the global agricultural economy. Among these changes are increased price and yield variations, increased global competition, rapid changes in agriculture’s business structure, new technology, and deficit reduction efforts [...]
The vast majority of grain sales I make with my managed clients are with local buyers or buyers nearby to the location of their farms, (depending on which area I’m trading in). However, I also have direct access to a Cash Grain Brokerage service through MarketLink (a sister company to FarmLink). Please be advised that [...]
Just a reminder to growers we are ready and available to address your soil testing needs. The list is growing, and as usual in the fall, timeliness is challenging. We are completely confident in sampling fields as soon as the combine pulls off if need be. For Clarification, we would like to point out to [...]
Will the changing Canadian demographic have an effect on what will be produced on our farms in the future? “Canada is rapidly moving from being a white country to becoming a brown country,” stated Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs speaking at the GrowCanada Conference in Calgary and as quoted in the Manitoba [...]
PrePass™ XC is a great fall-applied burndown solution that keeps your fields free of broadleaf weeds until May. Seed earlier in the spring without concern of weeds. The SoilActive™ technology of PrePass is unique in that it stays active in the soil to suppress potential weeds after killing the weeds that had already emerged. SoilActive™ [...]
It’s almost fall and that means only one thing… It’s harvest time. Harvest time is all about long hours, teamwork and a lot of windshield time. One thing to not be overlooked through this busy time is the proper management of storing your pulse crops. Safe storage conditions are key to maintaining the value of [...]
