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Comment: Keep your pencil sharp

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“The most important tool on the farm is the pencil.” That was the best farming advice Mike Buis ever received, and it came from his grandfather. Buis recently conducted a virtual tour of his family’s Chatham, Ont., beef farm for the Canadian Farm Writers’ Federation. Coincidentally, a day or two before the Buis Beef tour, […] Read more
Les Halliday finds cull potatoes to be highly palatable to cattle. Like any feed, they need to be introduced slowly. To avoid choking hazards, they should be chopped or ensiled before feeding.
Features, Livestock

Making food waste work in your feeding program

There are several benefits and challenges to weigh when introducing food waste as a feed source

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When customers visit Mike Buis’ on-farm retail store to purchase beef, they often ask what unusual product he’s feeding his cows that day. “It keeps it interesting,” says Buis, who farms at Chatham, Ont., and feeds cull vegetables and processing byproducts to his herd. “They need to almost drive directly by the feed bunk to […] Read more
File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

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New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs and delays amid booming shipping […] Read more
China is reshaping the global cow herd with aggressive buying.
Comment/Columns, Free Market Reflections

China reshapes global beef markets

Free Market Reflections with Steve Dittmer

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World events have made it increasingly difficult to figure out where the bubble in the level really is. We saw hundreds of Canadians on television protesting the detention of two Canadian citizens by the Chinese Communist Party for 1,000 days. The allegations are supposedly unrelated to political events everyone knows they are connected to. Yet […] Read more
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Barley, Crops

Canada’s small, high-protein malt barley crop poses challenges

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MarketsFarm — The hot and dry 2021 growing season cut significantly into Canada’s barley production, with the weather also leading to higher protein levels for what was harvested. “It will be an extremely tight and difficult year for the malt processors and ultimately for the brewers as well,” said Peter Watts, managing director of the […] Read more
Building resilience
Comment/Columns, Depth of Field

Building resilience

Do you have the tools to recover from or adjust to adversity?

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Maybe you’re thinking, “Well, at least it is not as bad as ’02.” Or perhaps, “This is even worse than ’02.” The situations vary in their severity but everyone in Western Canada is experiencing some degree of drought. And nobody in this business wants to think back to what happened after the drought of ’02. […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Machinery, Reuters, Weather

White House not ruling out a U.S. carbon tax

Option 'not off the table' despite Manchin comment

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Washington | Reuters –– The White House on Tuesday said it has not ruled out a carbon tax as a possible option for fighting climate change, even though U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a critical holdout in the closely divided Senate, said he was not discussing the topic in talks about U.S. spending and infrastructure bills. […] Read more
File photo of a soybean plantation in Brazil. (Mailson Pignata/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Reuters

More acres seen needed worldwide to meet mounting crops demand

U.S. acres may have already hit ceiling: AgResource chief

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Geneva | Reuters — Farmers need more space to grow crops to meet mounting demand for food and renewable fuel at a time of slowing growth in yields, consultancy AgResource said on Tuesday. A renewable fuel push under U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate agenda is set to trigger a boom in soyoil use, reinforcing a […] Read more
A City of Iqaluit worker fills a water truck at the Sylvia Grinnell River after authorities ordered the Nunavut capital’s 7,000 residents not to drink the city’s water due to suspected fuel contamination, on Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Casey Lessard)
General, Reuters

Iqaluit confirms ‘exceedingly high levels’ of fuel in water supply

Water not safe for cooking or drinking, city says

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Reuters –– The Canadian city of Iqaluit said lab results confirmed that fuel had entered its water supply, officials announced Friday. Analysis of samples from one of the city’s water tanks found “exceedingly high levels of various fuel components,” Amy Elgersma, Iqaluit’s chief administrative officer, said, adding it was likely diesel or kerosene. Residents in […] Read more

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