By Karen Briere Glacier FarmMedia staff Cody Straza encourages organic growers to use five soil health principles to improve their systems. Trying to implement all five is a challenge, he told a recent organic and low-input field day in Swift Current, but it can be done. Straza and his family operate Upland Organics on 2,100 […]
By Terry Fries Commodity News Service Canada Farmers growing organic wheat will likely have to accept the crop’s best prices are behind it, at least for the near future. Prices for organic, large-green lentils are also likely to struggle, said Jason Freeman, general manager of Farmer Direct Co-op in Regina. “Coming into the new crop […]
*[UPDATED: July 9, 2018] Read more: How the organic market is heading into the summer doldrums *[UPDATE] Spot price and premium for “Wheat – feed” updated
By Brenda Tjaden OrganicBiz contributor There’s an old adage in farming: half of the trick to success in grain marketing is planting the right crop in the first place. To that end, we can look at new-crop production contracting opportunities to guide seeding decisions. Unfortunately for organic growers, these are less common than in the […]
High price of crop inputs drives decision to convert to organic production By Robert Arnason Glacier FarmMedia staff There are 25 grain bins in Travis Heide’s farmyard, including six massive ones with a capacity of 70,000 bushels each. In total, the bins can store around 550,000 bu. of grain. That’s enough for 10,000 acres of […]
Read more: Organic markets steady, more wheat, oats acres predicted in 2018
Read more: Canada’s organic sector books better-than-expected year (See our year-end organic summary price chart of our top five commodities in 2017 below)
Read more: Organic markets quiet heading into the holiday season
Read more: Good quality harvest now looking for a market
By Phil Franz-Warkentin Commodity News Service Canada Another harvest is in the books across most of Western Canada and the winter marketing season is just getting underway. Organic prices were steady to higher for most of the major crops in October, with attention now focused on determining the quality of what came off the fields. […]
