Plant Innovation: Who Will Pay and How?
By Kevin Hursh
More
money needs to be invested in plant innovation and crop breeding or Canadian
agriculture will fall behind major competitors. This is not a...
Crop Input Investment and Replicated Data
I can’t keep up with all the new products being offered to farmers, often from companies new to Canada. Some of the products are...
Crop Returns Tighten
Profitable cropping options are few and far between heading into the 2018 growing season.
With a 50 per cent tariff on peas exported into India...
Does Agriculture Face Tough Times Ahead?
By
Kevin Hursh
For
many years, the story has been that the good times in agriculture were never
going to end. Now the story is increasingly negative with...
Seeking Solutions to Major Farm Concerns
By Kevin HurshGod, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the...
What You May Not Know About Crop Insurance
What you may not know about crop insurance
Crop insurance programs have some significant differences from one Prairie province to the next. Plus, there are...
Collaboration for Profit and Fun
By
Kevin Hursh
There
are ways to attain a better bottom line if we’d just quit being so damn
independent.
When
economic times are relatively good in farming, as they...
So, You Want to Try Intercropping
Kevin Hursh, P.Ag.
I received an email recently from a young producer in Alberta who saw me touch on the topic of intercropping at a...
Hogs versus Dogs
by Kevin Hursh
It’s amazing what enterprises make money and which ones are a low-margin grind.
At a recent producer meeting, I had the opportunity to visit with two different producers who...
Self-sufficiency isn’t commercial agriculture
by Kevin
Hursh
As I write this on March 18, we’re on holiday
in a small fishing village in southern Mexico. Our flight home was cancelled
and we’ve...