Robert Arnason
Journalist at The Western Producer
Ag journalist, skeptic and Montreal Expos fanatic
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1 week ago |
producer.com | Robert Arnason
The data doesn’t lie — winter wheat is in a down cycle on the Prairies. Statistics Canada data for Saskatchewan shows that acres of winter wheat remaining in the spring were in the range of 50,000 to 100,000 from 2021 to 2024. Follow all our Ag in Motion coverage, here. Read Also China becoming a french fry superpower Chinese exports of french fries are grabbing market share in Asia and southeast Asia, cutting into North American exports of frozen potato products.
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1 week ago |
producer.com | Robert Arnason
WINNIPEG — Canada’s system of developing wheat varieties is both efficient and effective, says a University of Saskatchewan agricultural economist. Australia invests much more into wheat genetics and improving varieties, but the yield gains are similar to Canadian results. “In Australia, they’re spending three to five times what we are, right now, on wheat research and wheat genetics,” said Richard Gray, Canadian grain policy research chair at the U of S.
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2 weeks ago |
producer.com | Robert Arnason
WINNIPEG — In 2021, only 21.8 per cent of Canadians ate a sufficient amount of fruit and veggies per day. That data comes from a Statistics Canada survey to gauge how many Canadians (aged 12 and older) consumed fruits and vegetables five times or more a day. It’s down significantly from 2017, when 28.6 per cent of Canadians said they ate five servings of fruits and veggies daily.
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2 weeks ago |
producer.com | Robert Arnason
As of early June, 11 blacklegged ticks had been identified in Saskatchewan, based on reports to a monitoring service called etick.ca. Eleven tick sightings in a province the size of Saskatchewan is not a lot, but it’s much higher than 15 years ago, when three to five blacklegged ticks were reported in Saskatchewan in an entire year.
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2 weeks ago |
producer.com | Robert Arnason
WINNIPEG — With higher yielding varieties now on the market, barley growers on the Prairies have a few questions about fertility. One of those questions is how high is too high for a nitrogen rate? Related story: Saskatchewan growers test wheat and lentil varieties on their farms Read Also Weather less than ideal in many wheat-growing regions Weather issues are throwing into question forecasts for a record large global wheat crop this year, but wheat futures markets remain cautious.
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