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How much diversity in a cover crop is too much?

The making of a cover crop mix

How ‘multi-species’ should a multi-species mix get?

By Alexis Stockford January 26, 2023

Michael Thiele wants farmers to design their cover crops for whatever they don’t have in their system. The soil health presenter said during an early January workshop in Minnedosa that for some farmers, that might be soil carbon. For others, it might be nitrogen or soil structure or other soil health traits. On the business

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: How roots are shaped for success

The amazing development of root shape and why it could help protect crops from climate change

By Malcolm Bennett, Poonam Mehra January 24, 2023

Plants may live rooted in one place, but the more scientists learn about plants, the more complex and responsive we realize they are. Plants are specialists, making the most of what is near where they germinate. Learning about the intricacies of plant life is about more than inspiring wonder in people, though. Studying plants is

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Prices slip during quiet January

Shortages of trucks, drivers still trouble cattle sector

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 20, 2023

MarketsFarm — With January being a quiet time there’s isn’t a whole lot of direction for feed grains, according to Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. Prices for feed barley and wheat have been slowing slipping, he said — especially with feedlots not having to buy and farmers not needing to sell —

In a refrigerated greenhouse that mimics winter, individually tagged hybrid wheat sprouts grow in 7C temperatures at the Syngenta research farm near Junction City, Kansas.

Cereals, Crops, News

The dawn of hybrid wheat

U.S. farmers gain access to new technology as war, climate threaten global food supplies

By Julie Ingwersen, Tom Polansek January 12, 2023

Global seed maker Syngenta plans to release a new type of wheat developed with complex cross-breeding techniques in the United States next year, beating out rival companies that are also trying to develop higher yielding wheat at a time of diminishing global grain supplies. The hybrid wheat, which combines positive traits from two parent plants,

News

How hybrid wheat could lead to more food without GMO fears

By Tom Polansek January 12, 2023

Reuters – American farmers are gaining access to a new type of wheat developed by agrichemical giant Syngenta without genetic engineering, as the world’s biggest seed companies seek to boost yields amid dwindling supplies of grain. Chinese-owned Syngenta is releasing hybrid wheat on 5,000 to 7,000 acres next year, a fraction of total U.S. plantings,

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Corn imports still weigh on domestic feed market

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 11, 2023

MarketsFarm — Ample corn imports from the U.S. continue to keep the western Canadian feed grain market under pressure, with barley bids in Lethbridge trending lower through the early days of 2023. “We started the year with cash barley trading at roughly $450 (per tonne) in Lethbridge, it’s since declined to roughly $435,” said Jim

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Little price movement for feed grains

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News January 6, 2023

MarketsFarm — With the holiday season come and gone, feed grain buyers were getting back into the swing of things at the start of 2023, according to one trader. “I think January will probably fill up pretty quickly as we’re in the first week of January and we’ve been booked into January for a bit,”

News

Coceral expects European grain output to rise in 2023

By Reuters January 4, 2023

Grain production in the European Union plus the United Kingdom is expected to rise in 2023, grain industry lobby group Coceral said recently, recovering after dry and hot weather caused crop damage in many parts of the region this year. Harvest prospects in the EU are being monitored closely as grain markets wrestle with supply

Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market to start 2023 on firm tone

Counter-seasonal behaviour expected

By GFM Network News, Jerry Klassen January 3, 2023

There were no market reports last week due to the holiday season; however, I still received a few calls from cattle producers regarding the feeder market outlook for the first quarter of 2023. The feeder market finished 2022 at 52-week highs. Steers averaging 500 lbs. were readily trading over the psychological $300 level while 900-lb.

Grain bins in a Saskatchewan field. (MysticEnergy/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Grain, price movement ongoing over holidays

Colder weather stymies deliveries

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News December 31, 2022

MarketsFarm — With the Christmas break come and gone, more grain is being delivered to feedlots, according to one Lethbridge trader. Mike Fleischhauer of Eagle Commodities Ltd. said that despite the holiday season, in which lighter activity is expected, there was still some movement in feed grain prices. Wheat and barley were both valued at

Daily Network News

Chicken, eggs benefit from demand for economical protein

Spain detects first swine fever cases outside initial Barcelona outbreak zone

Canadians worked first 39 days of 2026 to pay for year’s grocery bill says CFA

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