Crop Planning Guide

Manitoba Agriculture has released its 2025 cost of production analysis for crops and the picture isn’t rosy. All 16 crops in the Manitoba analysis show a return over operating costs, but only pinto beans show a return over total costs. That return is small and pinto beans are a minor acreage crop with only 111,000 […]

Crop prices varied dramatically throughout 2024. The agriculture portion of the Saskatchewan government website has graphs of farm gate grain prices over time. Note that prices vary from one location to another each day and also vary geographically depending upon access to processing facilities. However, the graphs show the relative ups and downs. Canola hit […]

Crop returns in the coming year look much more promising for some crops than others. Each year at the Crop Production Show, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture releases its Crop Planning Guide for the upcoming year. The guide details all the variable costs of growing each crop including seed, fertilizer and crop protection products as well […]