Category Archives: Featured – Kevin Hursh
Canola production estimate lower than 2023: Stats Canada
Statistics Canada has dramatically lowered its canola production estimate for 2024. This latest estimate is based on a November survey of Canadian farmers while previous reports in July and August wer...
Harvard Media Dec 05, 2024
Sask. Ministry of Agriculture releases new crop pest maps
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture has developed new survey maps for various crop pests including pea leaf weevil, wheat stem sawfly, grasshoppers and cabbage seedpod weevils. The 2024 pea leaf ...
Harvard Media Nov 25, 2024
$230 million paid in crop hail claims
Member companies of the Canadian Crop Hail Insurance Association paid out $230 million to Western Canadian grain farmers on nearly 11,000 hail claims this year. The Canadian Crop Hail Association repo...
Harvard Media Nov 14, 2024
New Grain Company getting into the pulse & specialty grain market
A newly-incorporated, Saskatchewan-based company is expanding its reach in the pulse and specialty grain market. Harvest Grain Ltd is combining existing assets with new Saskatchewan acquisitions. Born...
Harvard Media Nov 13, 2024
Producers will be mostly compensated due to inadequate security from Global Food and Ingredients Inc.
Producers who were not paid for grain delivered to Global Food and Ingredients Inc. will not receive full compensation from the Canadian Grain Commission's payment protection program. The company's se...
Harvard Media Oct 22, 2024
Financially troubled grain broker leaves producers unpaid
A grain broker operating in Western Canada has hit a financial squeeze resulting in a number of producers being unpaid for grain deliveries made many months ago. The broker is not licensed to buy grai...
Harvard Media Oct 11, 2024
Another step to be added in AgriInvest program for next year
An extra requirement is coming for the AgriInvest program for 2025. Producers with allowable net sales of a million dollars or more per year will require an environmental assessment to receive the mat...
Harvard Media Oct 02, 2024
AAFC price projections not kind to chickpeas and mustard
The latest field crop market outlook from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has large declines in the expected prices for many pulse and specialty crops. The monthly Outlook for Principal Field Crops r...
Harvard Media Sep 26, 2024
Crop yields up, but prices down
Crop yields in Saskatchewan are better than last year, but the decline in prices will mean lower overall returns. Using Statistics Canada estimated yields and comparing them to the estimated yields fr...
Harvard Media Sep 06, 2024
Grain farmers made less money in first half of 2024 compared to livestock producers
Farm cash receipts from crops decreased in the first six months of the year as compared to 2023 while livestock receipts were higher. According to Statistics Canada, farm cash receipts for Canadian fa...
Harvard Media Aug 30, 2024