Grainews' greatest hits: 2024 in review - Grainews
Dec 25, 2024 · The horsepower race is back on again, Jan. 16, 2024, page 1. For several growing seasons, our machinery editor Scott Garvey was observing a sort of holding pattern in the horses available from the major tractor manufacturers, but as 2024 approached, the machinery makers stopped holding their horses, cranking up the muscle on their flagship models, including some touching and even crossing the ...
Parents retiring, leaving farm to two sons - Grainews
Dec 16, 2024 · Jared and Leanne have 8.5 quarters of land with a value of $6,500 per acre. Of the 8.5 quarters — that’s 1,360 acres — 760 acres are held personally, and 600 acres are held by their farming corporation.Although they have successors for the farm operation, they want to ensure their sons are treated with an efficient transition of control.
Practical Production Tips & Agricultural News - Grainews
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Canadian farm equipment sales projected to slump in 2025
Nov 21, 2024 · Farm machinery sales are forecast to decline for the remainder of the year and into the next. New equipment sales are expected to be soft as farmers face low commodity prices, high equipment prices and lower profits, though the decline in 2025 is expected to be less severe than in 2024. Sales of 4WD tractors are projected to stay above the five-year average.
COYF: Outstanding, young and (mostly) westbound - Grainews
Nov 9, 2024 · The seven regional finalists, who represent agriculture enterprises ranging from fruit, vegetable and wine production to beef, dairy and organically grown crops, will join about 200 COYF alumni and guests for the 44th national event, being hosted by the Alberta/Northwest Territories OYF region and running from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1.
Could ‘right to repair’ become a cybersecurity problem?
Dec 12, 2024 · ALSO READ: Techs finding ways to repair ag electronics Many producers have been frustrated when their equipment breakdowns require only a simple fix, but they couldn’t access a CPU themselves to make any corrections or diagnose the problem.
Early-gestating beef cows need good nutrition - Grainews
Dec 31, 2024 · One assumed consideration in all these just-under-$2 diets is to include an accompanying mineral-vitamin program.In this way, I often recommend to producers that they feed their cows a well-balanced yet less costly standard cow mineral for the first 90 days of early to mid-gestation and then switch their herd over to a breeder mineral formulated with organic trace minerals and higher vitamin ...
Prairie forecast: Cold start for the east, overall warm, dry expected
Dec 11, 2024 · To start this forecast period, the strong area of low pressure that tracked through the eastern Prairies is now over Hudson Bay. The rotation around this low is opening the door for a strong, very cold Arctic high to build southwards into the eastern Prairies. This looks to bring some of the coldest temperatures so far this winter to eastern Saskatchewan and western Manitoba. The good news is ...
Plasma shows promise against fusarium-formed toxins
May 27, 2024 · “We substituted the normal water with plasma-treated water and we used that water to treat barley grains. We noticed that treating barley grains with plasma water boosted the germination and resulted in the degradation of deoxynivalenol,” Feizollahi said.
India top destination for Canadian peas/lentils through October
Dec 10, 2024 · Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — India was the top customer for Canadian peas and lentils through the first three months of the 2024/25 marketing year, with total exports of both pulse crops running well ahead of the year ago pace.. Canadian pea exports in October came in at 437,629 tonnes, which was down by 28 per cent from tonnes the previous month, according to the latest Statistics ...