Federal Carbon Credits are Coming, but it Won’t be Easy Money
By Kevin Hursh
If you’re expecting payments because you sequester carbon through direct seeding and minimum tillage, don’t hold your breath.
On March 5, the federal...
The changing crop mix
You really don’t know what you can grow until you try. That’s why the mix of crops continues to change across Western Canada.
At one...
Livestock Lessons
Kevin Hursh
As
Canadian grain farmers, we need a code of practice. Before you see red and
start calling me names to suggest yet another useless, bureaucratic...
Wide-ranging Drought Ramifications
By Kevin HurshThe growing season of 2021 will be indelibly etched in the minds of farmers and in the pages of record books. Not...
Hiring Outside Expertise
According to the old adage, a farmer is a jack of all trades but a master at none. While that’s perhaps truer than ever,...
Getting a Farming Start
Kevin
Hursh, P.Ag.
Many
young men and women would love to farm. In fact, some are obsessed with it.
It’s their lifelong dream and has them exploring non-conventional...
Farming In An Uncertain World
By Kevin HurshTwo years of worldwide pandemic followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine has created an extremely uncertain and volatile situation for farmers...
Intercropping Warrants More Research
This year, I experimented with a quarter section of chickpea/flax intercrop. Unfortunately, with such a dry May and June in my region of southwest...
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...
