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Better Farm Input Price Information Needed
By Kevin Hursh
I’m a fan of the farm input price information published monthly by Alberta Agriculture, particularly the fertilizer prices. I only wish it was...
Carefully choose your intercrops
By Kevin Hursh
I believe in the potential of intercropping to generate higher revenue per acre, but there are many pitfalls and I stumbled into...
High Land Prices and Exorbitant Cash Rents
By Kevin Hursh
In farming circles wherever you travel, there’s a commonality to conversations over land prices and cash...
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...
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...
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...
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...
