HAPPY NEW YEAR
By: Shaun Haney
December 31, 2008
I would like to wish everyone a happy new year and thank you for taking the time to visit this site. The traffic on the site continues to grow...Read more »
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Year: 2008
Fertilizer Buddy Gains Attention
By: Shaun Haney
December 31, 2008
In the short life of RealAgriculture.com, by far the most interest has been in the fertilizer stories. Fertilizer prices are a very hot topic...Read more »
Mexico Cuts Off Beef Trade
By: Shaun Haney
December 30, 2008
Last week, Mexico cut off the imports of US pork and beef from 30 US plants owned by Tyson, Smithfield Foods, JBS and Cargill. This is in addition to...Read more »
Hon. George Groeneveld Discusses 2008
By: Shaun Haney
December 23, 2008
Yesterday on Call of the Land, an Alberta Radio Show, there was an interview with the Honorable George Groeneveld, the Alberta Agriculture Minister....Read more »
Tom Vilsack Gets Interviewed by Rick Mercer
By: Shaun Haney
December 19, 2008
I stumbled across this today while I was scanning my news feeds. This video is several years old because it was taken when Tom Vilsack was the...Read more »
Tom Vilsack is Appointed Ag Secretary
By: Shaun Haney
December 17, 2008
It is official, Tom Vilsack is the new Ag Secretary in the United States. Vilsack is the former governor of Iowa and Presidential candidate. Iowa has...Read more »
NFU is Critical of Agricultural Trade
By: Shaun Haney
December 16, 2008
Sometimes when you are trying to get a point across you stretch the fabric of reality to invoke thought. Many speakers and writers do this...Read more »
Agrium Confirms the Fertilizer Perfect Storm
By: Shaun Haney
December 15, 2008
There are signs developing which indicate much higher fertilizer prices come this spring. The biggest being last weeks announcement to halt...Read more »
R-Calf Sits Down With the Obama-Biden Transition Team
By: Shaun Haney
December 12, 2008
Bill Bullard, CEO of R-Calf, was in Washington earlier this week trying to mold the future of the USDA and US trade policy. The meeting was with the...Read more »
More Time To Repay CAIS Overpayments
By: Shaun Haney
December 11, 2008
Jay Whetter, Editor of Grainews, wrote on his blog this week about some recent announcements from the Growing Forward administration. I think that it...Read more »
Barley is Bearish
By: Shaun Haney
December 9, 2008
I met a very knowledgeable grain merchant yesterday that discussed the grain markets with our management group. The main thing that I took out of the...Read more »
Transgenic Wheat Will Provide Benefits
By: Shaun Haney
December 6, 2008
Several years ago, farmers debated the possible benefits that Round up Ready wheat would or would not bring to the market place. Based on the result...Read more »
Coalition Govenment Means the CWB Single Desk Stays
By: Shaun Haney
December 2, 2008
The formation of a Liberal / NDP coalition government is going to shake the political foundation of Canada. Between the fact that a man that is...Read more »
Haney Farms has GIANT VIEWS
By: Shaun Haney
December 1, 2008
Recently I did an interview with the Owner of Germination Magazine, Robynne Anderson. In terms of my writing interests, Robynne has been a strong...Read more »
Beef Tracing Is a Reality
By: Shaun Haney
November 26, 2008
IBM has developed a system to fully track a steaks movement through the supply chain. This really is the ultimate in providing information to the...Read more »