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About ben

Immigrated to Canada in 1980 and dairy farmed for 9 years, obtained real estate license in Alberta in 1989 and have been selling Farm Real Estate for 32 years. Specializing in Farm/land investment, farm relocation and farm families immigrating to Canada, organizing business and farm immigration seminars, sales of quota (milk, poultry), water rights, irrigated land, crop farms, farm corporations (shares) ranches, livestock (Cattle, hogs) and commercial farm investment.

Poor pollination problems

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

Don’t blame the corn variety if this summer’s high heat resulted in poor pollination. Despite decades of hybridization and genetic manipulation, corn by nature thrives in warm days and cool nights. Those were the conditions in which corn developed as … Continue reading →

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Corn, soybean markets explode

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

Though slightly off their daily highs, the CME Group corn, soybean and wheat markets stay sharply higher Monday. Crop-stressing weather keeps the farm markets underpinned. At mid-session, the July corn futures are trading 13 1/2 cents higher at $6.86, while … Continue reading →

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Adding value to his own ag products

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

Bruce Meinders’ dairy farm in Kossuth County is a success story sprouting from improbable roots. At a time when most dairy farms were struggling to survive or selling off their herds, Meinders started dairying three years ago on the family … Continue reading →

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The Royce’s snail farm at the Langham Huntington in Pasadena

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

Chef David Feau of The Royce at the Langham Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena is establishing a garden on the grounds where he can grow vegetables and herbs for use in his kitchen. It also features a small snail … Continue reading →

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Farmland is the new hot investment

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

Marc Schober likes to say that farmland is the new gold, a hot investment that offers protection from the whims of the stock market. In fact, it’s better than gold, the 25-year-old explains, tromping through a muddy field in southern … Continue reading →

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A celebration straight off the farm

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

There is a small but powerful time warp waiting to be discovered in the Great North Woods. At the Poore Family Homestead Historic Farm Museum in Stewartstown, visitors are transported back to a time before electricity in the rural northernmost … Continue reading →

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Harford Farm Fair to be preceded by carnival as board seeks more funding

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

The pigs, horses and sheep will all still be there, but for residents looking for something a little different, this year’s Harford County Farm Fair promises more than a few new events. Have a special skill? You can try out … Continue reading →

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Andreessen Horowitz Heads Down on the Farm With Latest Investment

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

Everybody eats. It’s one of those fundamental truths I learned from “Sesame Street” in the 1970s. Another is that most of what we eat comes out of the ground, unless it’s meat, in which case what it eats probably comes out of the ground. … Continue reading →

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Baltlogistics to Invest 7 Mln Euros in Moscow Region Rabbit Farm

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

Baltlogistics.Com, one of Russia’s largest logistics, distribution and merchandising firms, will invest nearly seven million euros in construction of a rabbit farm in the Moscow region, MITS investment firm, which sold the land for the farm, said on Monday. The … Continue reading →

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Crafar farm deal held up, Appeal Court hearing told

Posted on July 2, 2012 by ben

Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin has yet to complete the purchase of the Crafar farms, the Court of Appeal was told yesterday as the latest Sir Michael Fay-led legal challenge to the acquisition was heard in Wellington. The Independent Crafar Farms … Continue reading →

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