Interchange work opens doors to sweeping changes at Ag Society
The upgrading of the Hwy. 1A and 22 interchange is helping the Cochrane and District Agricultural Society (CDAS) tackle some of the serious challenges associated with their hilly location.
CDAS Justin Burwash says it has enabled them to level out some benches and create more useable space, something that's part of a preliminary site plan that set some high-level goals a few years ago,
AGT Soileos opens sustainable fertilizer production facility north of Rosetown
AGT Soileos held their grand opening in Rosetown on Wednesday, October 11.
Read more through the AGT Food's official release, as the new operation is a result of the partnership between AGT Foods and and Lucent Bio. The two companies put their expertise together to manufacture the flagship product "Soileos" that works to deliver sustainable, efficient, and eco-friendly micronutrient fertilizer solutions.
Who will be Manitoba's Outstanding Young Farmers for 2024? Nominations now open
Nominations are now open for the 2024 Manitoba's Outstanding Young Farmer program.
Kristy-Layne Carr and her husband Richard run Rich Lane Farms, a dairy operation at Marchand, and were the Provincial OYF winners for 2022.
CN reports strong grain shipments for Week 9
CN Rail is reporting grain movement is starting to pick up across the prairies.
CN's assistant vice-president of grain David Przednowek says rail car demand has ramped up over the last few weeks.
"We shipped almost 700,000 tons of grain and processed grain products last week , 685. So we've seen that tonnage steadily increase here over the past number of weeks. Week 6 was just under 600,000 tons and we've seen those numbers grow. So week 9 has definitely been the biggest week so far to date this crop year."
Do More Ag launches "Walk With Me" campaign
The Do More Agriculture Foundation launched its new initiative "Walk With Me" as part of World Mental Health Day on Tuesday.
"Walk With Me" is a global campaign created by U.K. farmer Chris Manley when he was struggling with depression.
Manley found that walking and journaling helped to improve his mental health, and wrote a poem called Walk with Me that outlined the feelings that people can have while feeling low.
Ongoing tensions between Canada and India remain a concern
Trade irritants are always a key concern for the agriculture sector
The ongoing tensions between India and Canada remain a concern especially for provinces like Saskatchewan that export a large volume of pulses into India.
AGT Foods is one of the largest suppliers of value-added pulses, staple foods and food ingredients in the world.
Murad Al Katib, President and CEO of AGT Foods says they are closely monitoring the situation.
Market analysts monitor international conflicts
There's a lot of discussion around the portential for the Israel - Humas conflict to escalate.
The key concern of course is the loss of human life and the humanitarian need.
Josh Linville is vice president of Fertilizer for Stone X Financial and is following the impact on the fertilizer market as Israel is the fourth largest exporter of potash in the world.
In his newsletter this morning he noted that so far, the attack does not appear to be impacting the fertilizer markets.
Ag Society welcomes help to replace existing infrastructure
Agricultural societies across the province, including Cochrane, are receiving a desperately needed shot in the arm from the Alberta Government.
The Cochrane and District Agricultural Society (CDAS) is among those applauding the announcement of $2.5 million annually to help update existing infrastructure.
CDAS president Justin Burwash says they've been somewhat successful in receiving grants in the past but it's always been in competition with all Alberta nonprofits.
Saskatchewan leads the country in dryland farmland values for the first half of 2023
Farm Credit Canada has released its mid-year dryland farmland values report for 2023.
Leigh Anderson, a senior economist with FCC says dryland farmland values were up 7.7 per cent nationally.
Saskatchewan led the country with dryland farmland values up 11.4 per cent, Manitoba came in at 6.4 per cent while Alberta only saw a 3 per cent increase.
Anderson says there are a number of factors influencing prices but a key issue is the growing conditions.
The provincial harvest is now 95 per cent complete
Saskatchewan's Ministry of Agriculture's latest crop report shows the provincial harvest is wrapping up.
According to the report 95 per cent of the provincial harvest is now complete, that's up from 91 per cent last week and ahead of the five-year average of 84 per cent.
Farmers still have some canola and flax to come in with canola at 90 per cent complete and flax at 68 per cent.
Producers who still have flax standing are hoping for a frost to help stop the regrowth that is occurring due to the recent rainfall in some areas.