Philip Shaw

       The weather is changing across Southwestern Ontario.  Gone are those glorious long days with bright sunshine and warm temperatures.   It has taken a bit of getting used to but I’ve had rain on my farms almost every day this week.  In any case, the good weather has led to some great harvest…

         In Ontario there are lots of combines rolling through cornfields across the province. Much of this is happening east of London Ontario and in eastern Ontario where severe drought impacted the crop this year. Yields are variable in the extreme with some yields being off the chart bad while others are possibly…

          It’s been another solid week of harvesting in southwestern Ontario.  About 80% of the Ontario soybean crop has been harvested. In some areas of the province, it has been a bitter harvest as dry weather gave very poor yields. In other parts of the province such as the deep SW where your…

         It has been a busy harvest week here in southwestern Ontario. Yes, your loyal scribe was able to get his combine in the fields joining the soybean party.  The weather’s been unbelievably beautiful very hot and dry good for harvesting soybeans and planting wheat.  I heard from my friend and DTN subscriber…

      The crop is moving along in my part of southwestern Ontario. Combines had just got rolling when rain game putting a stop to progress here.  In fact, there are some areas of southwestern Ontario that got catastrophic rains.  Needless to say, it’s that time of year when fall harvest starts up and there…

         We have had a lot of headwinds for the Canadian economy this year and it came to a bit of a head this past week when the Bank of Canada cut interest rates by 25 basis points putting the overnight rate at 2.5%. You might remember your loyal scribe musing openly earlier…

        Our world seems to be growing a little bit more dangerous. This past week we had some Russian drone incursions onto NATO territory in Poland that had the potential to go the wrong way. I had one producer tell me that he was thinking that markets would be limit upon this occurrence….

           Over the last few days, I had the opportunity to make my annual sojourn to Tobermory Ontario. With that I got to travel to some of the farm country north of me which has suffered quite a bit from drought this past summer. Most of Ontario has received rain lately which…

           This week we had a little bit of a wakeup call with cooler temperatures across the board. Your loyal scribe was hoping for stinky hot weather deep into September to help out his replanted soybeans.  Having temperatures dip into the single digits this time of year in southern Ontario is unusual….

Today and you could hear a little bit of a sigh of relief across southwestern Ontario farm country. In many ways it’s a bit like grasping at straws because we’ve had such a tough year of commodity pricing. At the present time we have what they call a bull flag pattern in soybeans which often…