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...
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...
Support Agriculture When Required
By
Kevin Hursh
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a river of money has been
flowing from Ottawa. The agriculture sector has received a relative pittance.
While...
Carbon Tax Hurts Custom Trucking
By
Kevin Hursh
An ever-increasing carbon tax that hits $170 a tonne
by 2030 is going to cost farmers a lot of money, but it will also...
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...
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...
Emission reduction that could work
Carbon taxes and/or cap and trade systems will be implemented across the country. Everyone has their own opinion on whether this makes sense, but...
The Good and Bad of Niche Crops
By Kevin Hursh
I always encourage farmers to look for profitable market niches.
Niches exist for many crops, but you have to remember that they are...
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...
