Archives for May 2011

Farmers in southeastern Saskatchewan are in trouble. Only a limited amount of crop has been seeded, time is running out and rain continues to fall. The crop report that came out on May 26 estimated provincial seeding progress at 54 per cent as of May 23, up from just 23 in the report for the …

Every growing season is unique and brings something you’ve never seen before. Our farmyard is on the edge of a saline slough called Boggy Lake. The “lake” has been dry most of the past 20 years. Often we’re driving across it by this point in the spring. This year, the lake is higher than I’ve …

I love the seeding monitor I installed this spring. I’ve been threatening to do it for a couple years, but the cost and the hassle of installation had thwarted those plans until this year. I’m sure there are lots of good blockage monitoring systems, but I went with Agtron, a Saskatoon company I’ve done some …

The Canadian Wheat Board’s single desk function has had more lives than a cat, but its days are now numbered. All the signals coming from the new Conservative majority government indicate that marketing choice will be delivered on both barley and wheat. There’s no use going through all the acrimonious debate again. Change, for better …