Kevin Hursh
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Ag journalist, consulting agrologist, farmer. Home-based business in Saskatoon. Farm at Cabri, Sask. Ag commentator for more than 40 years.
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Sunwing, we thank you. They had room on their direct flight to SK and allowed a bunch of us to hitch a ride at no cost.
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7/10 of an inch and still raining. What a blessing for this parched area. And it has come on a day with an Environment Canada forecast of only 30% chance of showers.
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I'm deeply honoured. Thank you SIA.
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Former Farmgate hosts at Bob Simpson’s retirement party. Pity that CTV is ending the show with Bob’s retirement. Last episode airs today. Farmgate has been running since early 80s.
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SASKATCHEWAN: An aviation term meaning you can't get there from here.
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Our ancestors didn't live as long as we do. Eating organic food is unlikely to extend your lifespan, but may expand your self-righteous attitude.
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One of the most dangerous harvest jobs must be cleaning combine windows.
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Enough runoff to fill the new dugout. It’s a beautiful site.
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Pleased and honoured to have soil scientist Les Henry pay us a visit at the farm to assess some salinity issues.
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I like to eat plants and I like to eat meat. I have no interest in plants pretending to be meat.
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You know it isn’t a great lentil crop when you can still see the rows at harvest time.
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Started combining maple peas today. An occasional green soft pea, but overall very dry. Could have started sooner.
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Pay up for low moisture grain and then no one will be tempted to add water.
Grain companies have the right to and should refuse grain deliveries that have been artificially watered prior to delivery as it may cause grain to go out of condition. More on rights and obligations regarding adding water to grain:
#CdnAg
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The newest hybrid brown mustard variety. Lots of height but not much yield after the dry, hot July.
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Ag Canada has come out with 2019 seeded acreage predictions:
Durum down 25%; Wheat up 9%; Barley up 7%; Oats up 5%; Canola up 1%; Flax up 15%; Peas unchanged; Lentils down 11%; Mustard unchanged; Canaryseed up 10%; Chickpeas down 58%.
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Larry Weber is estimating over $2 billion worth of crop still out in SK and over $1.7 billion still to harvest in Alberta.
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The Canadian Grain Commission has revoked the grain dealer license and primary elevator licenses of Purely Canada Foods affecting Avonlea, Kindersley and Lajord locations. Farmers owed money by Purely Canada Foods should be contacting the Canadian Grain Commission asap.
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Sask Crop Insurance 2022 prices: Canola - 17.01; HRS wheat - 8.71; durum - 11.16; oats - 5.63; flax - 19.05; peas - 11.57; barley - 5.77, LG lentils - 0.36; red lentils - 0.34; Canary - 0.36; brown mustard - 0.669.
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Harvest isn’t far away. For us, this brown mustard right by the yard will be first.
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Not if you have a whole beef in the freezer from a neighbour processed at a small local abatoir.
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Here’s what the path of the X-Steam-inator looked like after just 5 hours.
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The Crop Development Centre has announced the impending retirement of wheat and Canary seed breeder Pierre Hucl. Thanks Pierre for all your great work over many years.
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2024 seeded acreage forecast from AAFC.
Durum - up 1.4%
Wheat - down 3%
Barley - down 5%
Oats - up 27%
Canola - down 1.5%
Flax - down 19%
Peas - up 5%
Lentils - up 8%
Chickpeas - up 17%
Mustard - down 13%
Canary seed - up 6%
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You can blow a hydraulic hose on a farm implement and spill that much oil.
“Spill” = 100 litres, or about two fills of a Honda Civic. On company property and cleaned up within hours.
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Getting 2 inches of rain is marvellous, but it can create a few problems.
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SK has a drinking and driving problem that requires tougher laws and education. But are drivers at .04 causing the problem?
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How many days do we have before the dry conditions cause a full fledged crop disaster over a major chunk of Western Canada?
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Good to see BASF coming out with an urgent message to growers on herbicide residue issues for the 2022 crop. Canola, durum and Canary seed at particular risk. Many rotational restrictions added for areas with limited growing season rainfall.
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Socialist: Someone who had nothing in the past, doesn't have anything now, won't have anything in the future and wants to share it all.
"Socialists have nothing, and want to share it with everyone."
@JohnGormleyShow
#DadQuotes
#FathersDay
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Not much fanfare, but great news that Agrocorp Processing is well along in its building of a protein extraction plant at Cut Knife for peas, lentils and chickpeas.
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Thank you Dr. Bifang Cheng for the hybrid brown mustard variety that you and your team at AAFC developed.
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So my wife said, "You sure the combines will be all right there?" I assured her they'd be fine.
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Sask Crop Ins prices: canola - 18.83; HRS wheat - 10.21; barley - 6.42; durum - 11.16; peas - 12.17; red lentils - .30; LG lentils - .40; B & O mustard - .80; Y mustard - .85; Canary - .36.
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Unbelievable! CN supplied only 17% of the hopper cars requested by shippers in Grain Week 29. CP was at 66% for a combined performance of only 38%, according to the most recent report from the Ag Transport Coalition.
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Fairly happy so far with intercrop of maple peas and barley. Hoping barley will limit lodging of the peas.
#intercrop
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Ag Canada has released 2023 seeded acreage projections:
Wheat - up 4%; Durum - dn 6%
Barley - up 5%; Oats - dn 22%
Canola and Flax both up slightly
Peas and Lentils both down slightly
Chickpeas - up 10%
Mustard down 11%
Canary seed - down 2.5%.
What does everyone think?
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I may be the only damn fool buying some fertilizer for spring use. Locally, phos is $1070 a tonne and urea is $750.
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Many (most) men are happy to have women involved. Women need to step up rather than just attending their own women in ag events.
In
#ag
, 80-100% of our organizations are led by white, gray hair men. We need those men to ask women to join and lead. Men need to take an active role in promoting women in the industry -
@SavvyFarmgirl
at
#BIGDISH
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Manitoba’s insured price for canola this year is $16.44 a bushel. Manitoba uses a December price forecast from AAFC. Saskatchewan uses a price forecast generated in January. I’ll bet the Sask canola price will be significantly lower.
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I regret to inform my detractors that this isn’t a real crocodile. Any guesses as to where this is?
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Crops have been ruined by adverse weather, not much different than what has happened many times before.
"We all know about what went on in B.C. a few weeks ago with temperatures of almost 50 degrees... We're seeing a lot of crops being ruined and scrapped as a result of climate change,"
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Both the chickpeas and the Canary seed in this intercrop are flowering. All the crops need rain, but reasonably pleased with how this is looking.
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X-Steam-inator and Honey Bee Manufacturing have signed an MOU whereby Honey Bee will assist in development and then have manufacturing rights. See the news release and videos of the prototype at .
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You know crop conditions have improved when you need to swat mosquitoes while crop checking. These maple peas are my best crop. I also have crops that aren’t very pretty.
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You hurt your grain marketing credibility by selling unproven wonder products.
Plant Growth Stims: If you're getting out to spray flea leaf beetles contact us about also doing an application of stimulant. Tank mixes with any herbicide/insecticide/fungicide and only costs $3.25/acre per pass. Great option to increase root growth and yield. 844.324.7778
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Sask Crop Insurance prices available ahead of official announcement if you are set up for CropConnect on SCIC website. Spring wheat - 8.55; Durum - 10.86; Canola - 15.08; Peas - 9.58; LG Lentils - 44 cents; Red Lentils - 28 cents, Barley - 5.44.
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See the X-Steam-inator at Farm Progress Show. High temp steam to terminate weeds. Grass in picture was sprayed preceding day. Agricultural game changer.
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Finally, a voice of reason on the climate change issue.
Wow,
@FriendsOScience
spokesperson Michelle Stirling gets more than 250K views on Petition to EU signed by 500 scientists making it clear there is no climate emergency. Please watch it.
No Climate Emergency say 500 Scientists to UN via
@YouTube
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Leaving Ixtapa later today for Mexico City, then Toronto and then back to Saskatoon. Wish us luck.
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Gift from my wife. Keeping it at the farm where I don’t really need reserved parking, but where fewer people will see it and poke fun.
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Dear Birds; please stop making your nests on the machinery. All your hard work and family plans are wasted.
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If farmers actually believed this, land prices would not be rising.
“I would say that climate change is to agriculture as the pandemic was to retail.”
– Sylvain Charlebois, Dalhousie University
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
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Canary seed producers attending their AGM have voted 25 to 2 in favour of having the crop licensed and bonded by the Canadian Grain Commission. The board of directors for the Canary Seed Commission will work to make that happen.
#WCCPS2020
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Our best brown mustard field. (We also have some that look rather sketchy.)
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In dry years, rain in the forecast usually evaporates. In wet years, you get what's forecast and more. Many crops getting screwed.
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Check out our progress with the X-Stream-inator. High temperature steam on demand for weed control, soil pathogen control and crop desiccation. Watch the video posted at .
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Progress has been slower than hoped, but development of the X-Steam-inator continues. High temp steam for non-selective weed control.
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Damn. When belly button lint doesn't easily dislodge and you realize that it's a tick and it's attached.
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Deepfield Robotics, Bosch startup company has a robot that identifies and stomps on weeds within crop.
#Agritechnica
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Lots of reaction to this column. Climate action becomes a religion.
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No rain tonight. Crops are burning up. For me, brown mustard is holding up as well as anything.
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Chickpeas riddled with disease. Three fungicide apps, but still losing the battle. Need lower humidity and an end to the showers. How are chickpeas doing elsewhere?
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What do you think of these seeded acreage projections from Ag Canada?
Canola - up 3%
Durum - up 6%
Other wheat - steady to last year
Barley - down 7%
Oats - down 11%
Flax - up 22%
Soybeans - up 12%
Peas - up slightly
Lentils - up 5%
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French supermarkets are out of mustard. Yesterday, a TV journalist from Paris arrived at my farm to talk about why this has happened and whether France should grow its own brown mustard.
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I’ve talked to a number of producers having trouble getting specific inputs - some fall herbicides and even some common tractor tires. Is anyone else having similar supply troubles?
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Thanks Twiterverse. Mike’s Hydraulics in Saskatoon had exactly the hydraulic pump we needed and helped us out even though they were technically closed.
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Why build pea processing plant in MB when the vast majority of the peas are grown in SK?
A happy
#GlobalPulseDay
! Many thnx to
@RoquetteAmerica
for announcing a $400M pea processing plant in
#MB
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#MBAg
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I agree. The climate has always changed. I've never seen anything credible on how much of the current change is man made.
@KevinHursh1
kevin, do you have access to any data that would differ between naturally occuring climate change and man made climate change? i never hear any 'climate scientists' refer to this difference and am confused by it. our climate has changed forever, even before man.
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Sask Crop Insurance prices are out and with the run-up in the market, many are much lower than new crop values. Durum - $6.94; field peas - $7.50; flax - 13.97. If you have new crop contracts that are higher, consider using the Contract Price Option to increase your coverage.
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The real focus for the retailer is to get you to keep spending money.
I just got an email from a retailer saying there are 3 areas of plant health to focus on in drought:
1. can't take up nutrients without water so apply foliars
2. control weeds so they don't compete for resources
3. drought stressed plants still get disease so spray fungicide
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Some huge increases in Sask Crop Insurance premiums. The premium rate for my brown mustard is more than double canola. Haven’t been growing canola through the past couple dry years. Overall lack of transparency in how premiums are derived.
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Don't always agree with Cam, but I do on this.
As a farmer, I think the 'thank a farmer' movement is complete nonsense
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This was a marvellous surprise that helped get us home.
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And maybe if their advertising wasn't so self-serving and deceitful.
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Sheets of rain. The yard has become a river. So far only a few hailstones.
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Carbon tax is a drag on all export oriented industries and it goes far beyond grain drying costs. Agree with John Barlow, but an exaggeration when he says it has cost farmers "billions" of dollars.
Liberal AG Minister admits she and her department “...does not have information concerning the administration of the federal carbon tax.” No data.. no information.. but they'll tax farmers hard earn money from them just the same, because they can.
#cdnAg
#carbontax
#cdnPoli
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The opening of CropMaxx, a farm input supply business at Fort Vermilion, in the Peace River region of Alberta. Complete with entertainment for the little ones.
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We were told the premiums for Sask Crop Insurance in the spring, but did anyone else have sticker shock when the recent bill arrived?
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Congrats Laura Reiter on becoming the new chair of Sask Wheat.
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"Disarray in Agricultural Markets" - This is the best analysis I've seen. A recommended read for trying to understand the implications of all the current trade disruptions -
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Significant chunk of SW Sask in the dry to very dry category. Not much fun watching the crops dry up. Some are already toast.
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