Philip Shaw

One of the biggest decision I make in the spring is deciding when my soils are “fit”. It’s something that all of us do as crop farmers. In the deep SW of Ontario, every April and May, that is decided as we first put equipment in the field. Of course, “fit” might mean different things…

It was a mild January in SW Ontario but starting tonight we’re supposed to get heavy snow moving in dropping an inch per hour. For those of you in more northern climates, I’m sure you might laugh at that. However, in the deep SW of Ontario, we don’t get a lot of snow. Needless to…

I’m short selling GameStop. What you say? Well, it’s been kind of a big deal over the last few days and weeks as business pages have been tied up with trying to explain how seemingly poor stock buys like GameStop, Blackberry and AMC have suddenly caught fire on the stock market egged on by an…

The earth shifted Ea. You can feel it with the inauguration of a new American President. Nobody knows the future, but tone is important, and it seems things are more even. Two weeks ago, we had insurrection in the US capital and now things are calm. How this will play out within North American farm…

The earth shifted Ea. You can feel it with the inauguration of a new American President. Nobody knows the future, but tone is important, and it seems things are more even. Two weeks ago, we had insurrection in the US capital and now things are calm. How this will play out within North American farm…

January weather has been benign. Mid-January is good for me as it always represents another trip around the sun. Its kind of spooky, a January without snow or freezing temperatures, but that’s what I got. I had a non-farmer exclaim to me the other day about farmers preferring a hard winter. I said, yes, there…

Have you ever heard the old joke about the price of soybeans and the 1973 all time high (then) of $12.90 cents. The story goes that an old farmer walked into the elevator a few days after soybeans hit their high and beans were down to $11 and change. The farmer said, I’m not selling…

It is a new year, but as hard as I try, it hardly feels like a new day. As 2021 dawns there is faint light at the end of the tunnel which we are all hoping is 2021. Covid 19 dominated 2020 like we could have never imagined. I started the year off in Bangladesh…

It is that time of year again, and of course this Christmas is so different than ever before. It’s usually a time when families get together, a religious celebration for some, a cultural celebration for others. However, this year with Covid 19 continuing to stalk our land, governments are encouraging us to stay home. The…

I heard from Manitoba this past week over last’s week’s column on “Orderly Marketing”. It came from a DTN reader who has read this column for many years and actually showed up on my door once near Dresden Ontario and asked, are you Phil Shaw? We had a brief discussion on wheat marketing but ended…