Planning for 2025 and beyond - Country Guide
Jan 6, 2025 · Country Guide associate editor, April Stewart, sat down with Evan Shout, a.k.a. the Farmer Coach, for his thoughts and top tips on how farmers can prepare to make decisions not only for the coming year but for the next decade. Below is an excerpt from the podcast (edited for clarity). Country Guide: As we both know, farming is a complex business full of daily decisions, the results of which ...
Country Guide's top 10 stories of 2024 - Country Guide
Dec 30, 2024 · CG spoke with two farmers expanding their operations across provincial borders and hundreds of kilometres away.. 6. The uneasy middle. Canada’s mid-size farms are under pressure. But don’t write them off quite so fast — at least not all of them. 7. Seven trends in agriculture for 2024.
Feed Grain Weekly: Room to rise for feed barley - Country Guide
Jan 16, 2025 · Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – Rising United States corn futures and a weaker Canadian dollar have given room for barley prices to move upwards, said Jim Beusekom, president of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge, Alta.. However, he said the spot market hasn’t risen as much as forward prices. “Feedlots were able to secure supply for short-term delivery for January and February at ...
Klassen: Feeder market has many factors to digest in 2025
Dec 31, 2024 · The feeder cattle cash and futures markets surged in December after the U.S. halted imports of Mexican feeder cattle on November 22 due to a case of New World screwworm in a Mexican animal.It will likely take three or four months for the governments to work out procedures and protocols so that U.S. feedlots can resume the imports from Mexico.
Canadian canola exports surging in 2024/25 - Country Guide
Jan 14, 2025 · Canadian canola exports continued to stay far above those in 2023/24, the Canadian Grain Commission reported earlier in January. In the CGC's monthly report those outbound shipments of canola from licensed facilities at the end of November reached 3.84 million tonnes which are up by more than 80 per cent from a year ago.
Prairie forecast: Battle between warm and cold - Country Guide
Dec 24, 2024 · For this forecast period, the weather models have been bouncing back and forth between a return to cold weather after a brief mid-week warmup or a return to the mild weather pattern we saw during much of December. The models have been slowly converging towards the milder solutions, but at this point confidence in the second half of this forecast period is low.
Prairie forecast: Colder weather moving in with the New Year
Dec 11, 2024 · It’s a pretty straightforward forecast for these two provinces. Arctic high pressure will begin dropping southeastwards late on Tuesday. This high, while bringing more seasonable mid-winter temperatures, should scour out the low clouds and occasional light snow that’s been plaguing parts of these regions.
The slow evolution toward real-time variable rate fertilizer
Dec 2, 2024 · One can envision an on-the-go system like optical weed spraying, except in this case it would work for fertilizer. Sensors at the front of the tool would identify the soil nutrient situation and a rapid computer would process the information and …
Saskatchewan creamery turns ice cream dream into reality
Jan 13, 2025 · Twin Peaks Creamery opened its doors in spring 2023 and John Pruim’s dream of making ice cream from his family's dairy farm became a reality.
Agriculture takes a ride to the city - Country Guide
Dec 16, 2024 · Moyer’s son Brandon enjoys being part of the Farm crew. photo: Jeanine Moyer But there was no way she and her father would turn down this opportunity. With Moyer running her own ag company, Barn Door Communications, and Wallace pulling back from full-time farming, they could work it into their schedules.