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Manitoba harvest 80 per cent complete, weather conditions favourable

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for September 29

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Southwest Region Mostly cloudy and some rainy weather last week in the Southwest region. Between 5 to 15mm rain fell in different areas of the region but strong winds allowed for rapid drying. Areas in the southwest corner of the region are reporting shortages of water for livestock due to lack of a substantial rain
Cabbage seedpod weevil.
Crops, News

What’s bugging you?

These three beetles are the latest addition to the pest spectrum in Manitoba

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Manitoba farmers have, in recent years, found themselves hosts to three new uninvited guests. That was the message from John Gavloski, Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development entomologist, to the Ag in Motion Discovery Plus virtual farm show this summer. He said all three of these new pests are types of beetle, and all three first
Heart Acres Farm is run by Laura Tait (left), Chad Wiens (centre), and staff Hillary (second from left), Hannah (centre, rear) and Maureen (right).
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Creative pivots help small-scale food producers, sellers weather pandemic

COVID-19, hot and dry weather, grasshoppers and flea beetles made for a challenging growing season for Manitoba’s small food producers

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COVID-19 threatened their markets and pests plagued their crops, but two small-scale vegetable growers say this has been a rewarding growing season. “In all regards, it’s been our best year,” said Chad Wiens, who, along with Laura Tait, runs Heart Acres Farm south of Winnipeg. When the pandemic hit Manitoba in March, it was unclear
What you see will change depending on how you look at things.
Columns, Markets, Other

Taking a new view of grain markets

Don’t get caught looking at any issue from just one perspective

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Every now and then you come across a story or analogy that really makes you think. Even if you know an area or subject matter well, you can still learn more about it when you look at it from different angles. This is especially true in the markets where the landscape is constantly changing because
Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)
Crops, Markets

AAFC lowers wheat carryout estimate, raises canola

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MarketsFarm — Updated supply and demand estimates from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada call for tighter wheat carryout for the 2020-21 crop year than previous forecast — and more canola. Tursday’s report provides the first adjusted balance sheet estimates from the government agency that account for the latest production numbers from Statistics Canada released earlier in
File photo of Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau speaking to media in Winnipeg in March 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)
Markets, Other

Canada not benefiting from CETA, Bibeau says

Ex-premiers write to Ottawa with critique of EU's continued trade barriers

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Canada is not benefiting from the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union (EU), federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau grants. Expected to spur $1.5 billion in new agri-food exports, the free trade deal has fallen short of those targets since its implementation in 2017. In a letter Monday to Prime Minister Justin
With canola prices on the rise, time to make a marketing plan
News, Oilseeds

With canola prices on the rise, time to make a marketing plan

Start by knowing your costs and break-even prices

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With canola prices the highest they’ve been in two years, and the added stress of harvest, it’s a good idea to have a marketing plan, says Darren Bond, farm enterprise management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development (MARD) in Teulon. “We have to take that step back when we are marketing our grain and
China’s near-insatiable appetite for canola won’t be met with domestic production.
Grain Markets, News

Political posturing can affect grain prices

China is still buying Canadian canola through the various back doors it’s found to exploit

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When you cut through the politics and posturing, China still needs some of what Canada is selling. “They are repopulating their hog herd so they need feed,” Darren Bond, a farm enterprise management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development, told the CropTalk Webinar Sept. 16. “They have developed a taste for canola oil. At
China’s interest in buying soybeans, particularly from Brazil and the U.S., has recently helped push soy futures above US$10 and in turn lifted ICE November canola.
Grain Markets, Markets

China’s demand for soybeans bodes well for canola values

Provinces’ estimates suggest lower canola yields than what satellites are seeing

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ICE Futures canola contracts continued their month-long climb during the week ended Sept. 18, hitting their strongest levels in two years. The November contract moved above $530 per tonne during the week, marking the first time the front-month contract had settled above that point since June 2018. The contract has risen by nearly $50 per

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