Canola model costs more, delivers less

(November 25, 2015)  Last week I was heading to town and saw my neighbour’s two combines and a truck out in the field straight combining some standing canola.  This is a relatively new practice and doing so next to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains near the end of November certainly says something about climate change and so-called technological progress.  In this case it is claimed...

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Farmers support public plant breeding

(December 18, 2013) Anyone who supports farm-saved seed and public plant breeding should be pleased by the results of the elections for the Saskatchewan Wheat and Barley Commissions.  These commissions will allocate millions of dollars of farmers’ money into wheat and barley research now that the Federal Government has trashed most of its facilities and fired the scientists who did the...

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