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Farmer Brian Derksen seeds wheat on May 2, 2017 near Miami, Man., about 80 km south of Portage la Prairie. (Screengrab from Allan Dawson video)

Trade, weather top of mind for 2019 acres

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News December 4, 2018

CNS Canada — As Canadian farmers start thinking about what to plant next spring, global trade patterns and weather will play into decision making. “It’s very difficult to decide where this all is going. That obviously also has implications on where the futures prices go and what signals the farmers are taking from that,” said

Crops, Markets, Weather

December StatsCan report could vary from years past

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News December 4, 2018

CNS Canada — After this fall’s long, drawn-out harvest, some analysts predict Statistics Canada’s final Production of Principal Field Crops numbers could vary from the usual pattern. StatsCan’s report, due out Thursday, is a “very uncertain” report “because that was probably one of the most bizarre falls we’ve ever had on the Prairies,” said Ken

The decline in wheat acres compared to the increase in canola acres reflects their supply and demand, Stonewall farmer Bill Matheson told the first consultation meeting on proposed new royalties for cereal crops.

Crops, Local news

Why is canola beating wheat?

The prevailing wisdom could have it all wrong

By Allan Dawson December 3, 2018

Wheat needs more research money to compete with crops like canola. That’s the message organizers delivered at the first consultation meeting on two new proposed royalty options in Winnipeg Nov. 16. “Cereals are necessary in crop rotations to prevent pest and disease pressures from emerging,” a government slide presentation said. “However, due to declining profitability

International news, News, Other

China trade can be boosted

Agri-food exports could thrive but Canada needs to push to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers

By Alex Binkley December 3, 2018

China is a growing market for Canadian agri-food exports and could become even more important if it reduces tariffs and other trade barriers, says the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance. The call came as four federal cabinet ministers were in China to discuss improved relations. While a free trade deal with China seems far away, proposals

Panelists Laura Lazo of Manitoba Women in Agriculture, Pam Bailey, chair of Ag Women Manitoba and Arenda Vanderdeen of the Manitoba Women’s Institute told the recentManitoba Farm Women’s Conference that technology can trump geographic isolation.

Country Crossroads, Local news, Other

Linked by technology

Manitoba Farm Women’s conference panel says technology can connect women in agriculture into powerful networks

By Lorraine Stevenson December 3, 2018

Women who farm and live in rural Manitoba need relationships with each other, not merely ‘connections,” — not easy to establish or maintain given provincial geography. But organizations well established and new are working hard to change that, and with a high-tech twist. Why it matters: Manitoba women in the agriculture sector can be geographically

Farmers pay royalties on certified seed, but the seed industry says it’s an insufficient amount because farmers sow such a high percentage of farm-saved seed.

Crops, News

NFU rejects proposed cereal seed royalties

It says the seed industry wants more money from farmers with no guarantees it will make farmers better off

By Allan Dawson November 30, 2018

Proposals for new royalties on cereal seed, if adopted, will extract more money from Canadian farmers without guaranteeing they’ll benefit, according to Terry Boehm. He is chair of the National Farmers Union’s (NFU) seeds committee and a former NFU president. “This is the end-game,” Boehm, who farms bear Colonsay, Sask., told reporters during a telephone

Onions come in all sizes, shapes and colours and with different flavour profiles.  They’re all tasty and are underrated for their nutritional value.

Recipe Swap

Enjoy an onion

They’re tasty with flavours that run from spicy to sweet and surprisingly nutritious

By Getty Stewart November 30, 2018

Raw, sautéed, grilled, caramelized, fried or boiled, onions can be used in many different ways in an endless variety of dishes. In fact, onions are the most commonly used vegetable across the globe. We enjoy them for the crisp, spicy bite they provide when raw and the sweet, savoury depth they add when cooked. And

Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Markets

Total Canadian grain exports running well ahead of average

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin November 30, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian canola exports may be slightly behind the year-ago pace, but wheat movement is very strong and total crop exports to-date are running well ahead of average for this time of year, according to the latest statistics from the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). Canada exported 219,800 tonnes of canola during the week

Crops, Markets

Net fund short position grows in canola

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin November 30, 2018

CNS Canada — Fund traders added to their net short positions in canola during the week ended Tuesday, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to the latest report, managed money and other reportable speculators increased their net short position to roughly 44,000 contracts

Grain Markets, Markets

Canola finds some support in thin, choppy trading week

Early planting in Brazil boosts the soy supply outlook

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 29, 2018

ICE canola futures touched their lowest levels in more than a year on Nov. 20, but managed to uncover some support to the downside and were relatively steady on the week by Friday, Nov. 23. Activity, however, was thin and choppy, with markets in the U.S. closed for part of the week due to the

Daily Network News

Pulse Weekly: India to make pulse tariff announcement on Tuesday

“Major setback for global trade”: WTO suffers fresh blow after reform push hits wall

New U.S. biofuel rules please canola industry

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