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 ...

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.

Jan 20, 2025 · Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers will plant more wheat and coarse grains in 2025 at the expense of oilseeds, according to the first supply/demand projections for the 2025/26 marketing year from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released Jan. 20.. The government agency estimated all-wheat seedings, including durum, at 27.25 million acres, which would be up two per cent from ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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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.

Dec 13, 2024 · “I mean books for readers in just about every other economic sector because of the great value their thinking would bring.” Farming is fundamentally a job of decision-making, and increasingly, as we know, those decisions are big, and they are more complex than our city cousins have any idea about.. I get why farm groups portray farmers as gentle neighbours rather than as professionals, but ...

Dec 9, 2024 · Glacier Farm Media | MarketsFarm – Meteorologist Drew Lerner said he expects colder than normal temperatures across the Canadian Prairies and much of the United States Midwest in January, while a good portion of South America is to be hotter than normal.. Lerner, the president of World Weather Inc. in Overland Park, Kan., also expects above-normal precipitation for the Prairies for the ...