That may be a worn-out phrase, but it has taken on new meaning in the past few years as commodity and fertilizer prices have fluctuated wildly. It’s that time of the year again, as we have concluded one crop year it’s already time to start preparation for the next. Soil testing plays an important role [...]
By Lacey Gerbrandt, FarmLink Marketing Advisor Farm operations are annually faced with an unprecedented level of risk. There are risks in the additional expenditures necessary to maximize yield potential, and risk involved in not marketing your crop throughout the year at the opportune times. Let’s say, for example, that you apply the necessary amount of [...]
In June of 2013, Monsanto announced their Canada Corn Expansion Project, with an investment of $100 million over the next ten years to produce corn hybrids that could be widely grown across a potential geography of 26 million acres in Western Canada. According to Monsanto’s data, this could result in an estimated annual western corn [...]
Micronutrients are essential for healthy plant growth just as vitamins are important to healthy human growth. According to the Government of Saskatchewan Agriculture, there are many factors that will affect the availability of micronutrients in the soil. Organic matter, soil texture, and soil pH, as well as soil moisture and temperature at planting, macronutrient deficiency, [...]
Glyphosate can no longer be used on it’s own. With the widespread adoption of glyphosate-tolerant canola and glyphosate- and group-2 resistant kochia, glyphosate-only control is no longer very effective. Nufarm’s BlackHawk is a great option to tank-mix with glyphosate, together having the ability to control over 15 weed varieties. BlackHawk is a Group 14 and [...]
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 [...]
