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Together, Will and Jen grow loads of harvested beets from his and wife Jen’s organic vegetable CSA garden.

Online food fight grows into ag advocacy for local producer

Faces of Ag: Will Bergmann uses social media, his restaurant and relationship building to tell the story of agriculture to those who most need to hear

By Geralyn Wichers October 28, 2019

It started with fighting people on Facebook. Will Bergmann was figuring out where life would go. He’d gone to school for education, but he wanted to return to the land his family had farmed for generations. In the miasma of fights over GMOs and the evils of Monsanto, Will saw the potential in the platform

Crops, Markets

Alberta farmers well ahead of last year’s pace

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 28, 2019

With decent weather, Alberta farmers made good harvest progress for the week ended Oct. 22, according to the province’s latest weekly crop report issued Oct. 25. Province-wide progress vaulted from just under 59 per cent for the week ended Oct. 15 to almost 74.5 per cent. That said the overall harvest remains behind the five-year

Markets

Fund traders still bearish on canola as open interest falls

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin October 28, 2019

Commodity fund traders were back on the sell side in canola and corn during the week ended Oct. 22, but added to their net long position in soybeans, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (CoT) report compiled by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The net managed money short position in ICE

Standing soybeans under a blanket of snow following an early snowfall.

Crops, News

Manitoba farmers look for good weather to resume harvest

A wet turn after a dry summer has many farmers wondering if they’ll get the crop off

By Allan Dawson October 25, 2019

Beleaguered Manitoba farmers struggling to wrap up harvest are hoping for more good weather, and maybe a hard frost so machinery can travel on muddy fields. A major snowstorm Thanksgiving weekend just made fields, already soaked by above-average fall rain, wetter. As of Oct. 15, 26 per cent of Manitoba’s crop — 2.6 million acres

Crops, Weather

Hail, storm damage to crops during September, October

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team October 25, 2019

Despite temperatures largely below normal for September and October, there were some instances of hail damage to crops in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The Canadian Crop Hail Association (CCHA) said there were 53 cases of hail damage – as well as storm damage – in the two provinces. In Manitoba, storms that struck between Sept. 28

Crops

Saskatchewan farmers make good harvest progress

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 24, 2019

MarketsFarm – Farmers throughout Saskatchewan made good progress in their harvesting over the last week, according to the province’s latest weekly crop report. With little precipitation during the week ended Oct. 21, the harvest rose from 69 to 83 per cent complete province-wide. However, it’s still 10 points behind the average pace. Also, the report

Canola swaths under snow after a freak snowstorm in Manitoba Thanksgiving weekend.

Grain Markets, Markets

Canola prices remain subdued despite weather

Growers break single-week record for canola deliveries

By Marlo Glass October 24, 2019

Canola values remained “not exactly lifeless” but rangebound during the week ended Oct. 18, seemingly unfettered by a less-than-ideal harvest season. A cold front and Colorado low hit Manitoba over Thanksgiving weekend, delivering up to 70 cm of snow in some regions. That ought to have introduced a weather premium into markets, as the canola

A house and farmyard are obscured by blowing snow as tree branches weighed down by heavy snow bend under the strain.

Farmit Manitoba, Op/Ed, Opinion

Editorial: What if those weather forecasts are right?

By Laura Rance-Unger October 24, 2019

To say Thanksgiving weekend was a wake-up call for those of us living in rural Manitoba would be an understatement. The mid-October snowstorm that swept through the south-central zone between Brandon and Winnipeg is one for the memory books, ranking right up there with the Colorado low that shut down the region in March of

ICE January 2020 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Rangebound canola vulnerable to losses

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin October 23, 2019

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts moved lower during the week ended Wednesday and may have more room to the downside, despite persistent harvest delays across Western Canada. “Overall, we’re still rangebound, but we’re going to the lower part of the trading window,” said analyst Errol Anderson of Pro Market Communications in Calgary. “Canola is

An excavator works on Parliament Hill on the morning of Oct. 22, 2019, the day after the federal election. (Photo: Reuters/Patrick Doyle)

Markets

Industry reacts to divided vote, minority government

By D.C. Fraser, GFM Network News October 23, 2019

Ottawa — A regionally divided federal election resulting in a minority Liberal government leaves a clear challenge for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his caucus colleagues on how to handle the future of agriculture. Trudeau said clearly in his victory speech Monday night that Alberta and Saskatchewan are part of the country and will be

Daily Network News

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Canola

Alberta farmers well ahead of last year’s pace

Fund traders still bearish on canola as open interest falls

Manitoba farmers look for good weather to resume harvest

Hail, storm damage to crops during September, October

Saskatchewan farmers make good harvest progress

Canola prices remain subdued despite weather

Editorial: What if those weather forecasts are right?

ICE weekly outlook: Rangebound canola vulnerable to losses

Industry reacts to divided vote, minority government

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