Featured – Kevin Hursh

A different approach to upcoming annual farm group meetings

A different approach to upcoming annual farm group meetings

Nov 28, 2023 | 2:33pm
Some changes are coming to the meeting events organized by the crop commissions in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta over the next couple of months. There’s no longer one large meeting event with keynote speakers during Crop Production Week in Saskatoon. SaskCanola, Sask Wheat, SaskBarley, SaskFlax and Saskatchewan Pulse Growers are holding back-to-back annual business meetings […]
Farm Financial Data Released by Statistics Canada:  Kevin Hursh

Farm Financial Data Released by Statistics Canada: Kevin Hursh

Nov 28, 2023 | 2:17pm
Statistics Canada has just released a large amount of farm financial data. SaskAgToday.com’s chief agricultural editor Kevin Hursh has this analysis of the numbers: Most of the Stats Can data is up until the end of 2022 and covers income, expenses, government support payments and farm debt. It’s a blizzard of numbers, but here are […]
Forum being organized to discuss the future of agriculture

Forum being organized to discuss the future of agriculture

Nov 27, 2023 | 4:06pm
Nearly 10,000 randomly selected farms and ranches across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba will have received an invitation to participate in a Citizens Assembly on Agriculture. From those who apply, 36 lottery-selected producers will gather to work on climate and sustainability solutions for agriculture. Producers can register for the process even if they didn’t receive an […]
Moose Jaw home to a new pork processing plant

Moose Jaw home to a new pork processing plant

Oct 31, 2023 | 2:54pm
A new pork processing plant has been established at Moose Jaw. The plant plans to process the 200,000 cull sows that are currently exported to the U.S. Donald’s Fine Food owned by Donald Leung and his family already runs Thunder Creek Pork in Moose Jaw processing a little over 300,000 market hogs per year. Their […]
Commercial truckers face stiff competition from farmers

Commercial truckers face stiff competition from farmers

Oct 16, 2023 | 7:06pm
It has become increasingly attractive for farmers to own a semi to haul their own grain to market rather than relying on custom truckers. Everyone, including farmers, seeking to get a Class 1A driver’s licence to drive big trucks needs MELT, Mandatory Entry Level Training. As Susan Ewart, executive director of the Saskatchewan Trucking Association […]
Fertilizer purchases are tough decisions

Fertilizer purchases are tough decisions

Sep 19, 2023 | 1:56pm
By Kevin Hursh With an early harvest in most regions, there’s lots of time for soil testing to guide fertilizer application decisions for the next growing season. Unfortunately, that doesn’t tell you the best time to buy next year’s fertilizer and the best time for nitrogen may have been back in July. It’s tough to […]
Hursh: Grain market observations

Hursh: Grain market observations

Aug 21, 2023 | 9:52am
I don’t claim to be a market analyst, just an analyst of analysts. I follow several market commentaries quite closely and have a few observations about which crops seem to have upside market potential and which ones don’t. Wheat and durum prices have diverged and this could continue. Wheat prices have been steady to softer […]
Hursh: Your crop insurance bill has arrived

Hursh: Your crop insurance bill has arrived

Aug 14, 2023 | 4:25pm
As I combined a thin, low-yielding field of mustard, a call came from my spouse/office manager. Amongst her information to pass along was the arrival of the annual bill from Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation. “How much does SCIC want?” I asked. “It’s pretty big,” she said, quoting the amount. “No, no, that must be the […]
Opinion: Cattle sector pushes for AgriRecovery

Opinion: Cattle sector pushes for AgriRecovery

Aug 9, 2023 | 11:02am
What can be done to help cattle producers facing another year of drought and serious feed shortages? The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association has held well attended meetings in Kindersley, Perdue, Cabri and Cadillac to address the issue. I attended the meeting in my hometown of Cabri and I was impressed by how well the town hall […]
Recycling Lawrence MacAulay a poor choice

Recycling Lawrence MacAulay a poor choice

Jul 31, 2023 | 11:30am
It’s back to the future. Lawrence MacAulay has returned as federal agriculture minister. Despite the warm words of welcome from farm organizations across the country, I suspect the actual response was surprise followed by a collective groan. No farm organization wants to poison their relationship with the old/new agriculture minister by saying what they really […]