One industry expert says Nebraska farmers and ranchers who are hoping to see a new Farm Bill come out of Congress this year will likely be disappointed.

Barry Flinchbaugh, an ag economist at Kansas State University, says with the elections in November, he doesn’t expect a lot of work to be done on the Farm Bill until next year. Continue reading →

While the growth of the U.S. and Canada sow herds is relatively flat, pork producers are doing a great job of saving piglets and feeding out pigs efficiently. A Canadian market analyst says that efficiency is a significant story in U.S., North America and European hog production. Continue reading →

Two of the biggest questions hanging over the market today are how much damage has the hot dry weather done to South American production and what will US farmers plant this spring. Continue reading →

Siemens Says –  If it wasn’t for technology, research, people willing to risk all, and of course resources, we’d be a backward people and deprived to say the least.

On Monday and Wednesday of last week, I spent parts of two days having a nuclear stress test. The first day, Monday, the technicians injected a dye into my bloodstream, so the x-ray technician could keep his camera rolling looking at the blood flow of my heart when resting. Continue reading →

This is Jonathan and Tim Elias thought you might get a kick out of this. We walked around AG Days dressed like this and got a few laughs!

Harry Siemens – Jonathon Elias who farms north of Morden, MB, his brother Tim and four relatives and friends took a felt marker to the

Red shirt is Tim Elias age 21 Grey shirt is Jonathan Elias age 32 - Both farm with their father John Elias north of Morden.

backs of their shirts writing, “Thanks Ritz” and took in day two of AG Days in Brandon.

Elias said the idea was to attract attention to and to thank federal agriculture minister Gerry Ritz for removing the monopoly and single desk selling system of the Canadian Wheat Board.

“We’ve been waiting for an open market for so long and our dad has been waiting for it so long, too I thought well what is the worst thing that that can happen to us,” he said. “I guess we can get kicked out. I wondered what could happen.”

Elias and the others that joined him for moral and bodily support felt there might still be much resentment from those who oppose the change to the Wheat Board and weren’t quite sure what the reaction would be. Continue reading →

JANUARY 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decisions of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton allowed abortion in all nine months of pregnancy.

23 years later, Norma McCorvey, who was the “Jane Roe” in the Roe v. Wade suit, was interviewed by USA Today. She stated that once, while employed at a clinic when no one was in: Read more 

HS: Here is, in part the results of cutting back and cutting back potato acres, making sure there is ample money for the few still left. We have a poor crop, and guess what, processing plants shut down, people hit the streets, and we import spuds from the US of A. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for farmers making a good living, but what if, we have have another wet year?   Continue reading →

HS: Branding two lies makes this man a hero to some. This shows exactly what’s wrong with today society and in particular, politicians. Yet, politicians reflect society in my opinion. This doesn’t in any way take away from the poor campaign run by the Progressive Conservatives. It just shows how poor their campaign team was letting this guy beat them on two lies. Had Hugh McFadyen stepped up to the plate and hit an occasional home run, instead of lofting softballs and bloopers, he’d be premier today. Continue reading →