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Canola blooms in central Manitoba under an overcast sky.
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Building a better canola with broccoli

Traits from related species may punch up canola diversity

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Glacier FarmMedia – There’s little doubt that canola is a powerhouse crop. Nationwide, it covered nearly 22.1 million acres last year, more than 99 per cent of it on the Prairies. The Canola Council of Canada puts its economic contribution at nearly $30 billion a year. A University of Alberta researcher, backed by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Bayer Crop Science,
Canadian 2023-24 canola production of about 18.3 million tonnes was down slightly the 18.7 million tonnes grown the previous year.
Grain Markets, Markets

What’s putting pressure on canola?

Expert’s Radar: The short answer is that export demand just isn’t there

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After attempting to show strength for most of March and early April, the canola futures market took some hits, with the bias shifting lower once again. Old/new crop spread: Tightening stocks and the need to secure deliveries ahead of new crop availability often see old crop canola contracts trade at a premium to new crop
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Markets

Canola net short position edges lower

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The managed money net short position in canola futures edged lower in the latest reporting period, as fund traders covered some of their bearish bets, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Wheat bids in Western Canada are a far cry from where they were at this time a year ago, but unlike canola, the demand is still strong for Canadian wheat.
Grain Markets, Markets

Wheat prices stuck in sideways pattern

Minneapolis wheat has been hovering just above contract lows for two months

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North American wheat markets have been treading water for the past few months, with prices struggling to show much life. Minneapolis spring wheat, the most closely related futures contract to the Prairie cash market, has held in a sideways range just above contract lows for the better part of two months, with no indication that
Male (left) and female (right) waterhemp plants.
News

The gaps in Palmer amaranth, waterhemp prevention

There may be more getting done than producers realize, but more resources couldn’t hurt

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No one wants Palmer amaranth or waterhemp to become bigger weed worries in Manitoba, and there’s work focused on making sure that doesn’t happen, but local knowledge is still thin on the ground. The two boogeymen of the weed realm were recent subjects of a successful resolution brought before the Keystone Agricultural Producers. The motion, by ag diploma students
Verticillium wilt is the main culprit for potato early die complex.
Crops

Early bird may dodge verticillium woes in potatoes

Pushing a problem field to the front of the planting queue may help limit infection

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Verticillium wilt is a problem for a lot of crops in Manitoba, including canola, sunflowers and alfalfa. In potatoes, the fungus Verticillium dahlia is the main cause of potato early die complex. In a 2021 interview with the Co-operator, Mario Tenuta, University of Manitoba soil scientist and main investigator with the Canadian Potato Early Dying Network, suggested the condition
Just how big is Brazil’s soybean crop?
Markets, News

Just how big is Brazil’s soybean crop?

Expert’s Radar: Some perspective on this, and other issues

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On a recent trip to Toronto, I could see the CN Tower from my hotel room. It looked impressive, but not that impressive given the view of nearby buildings appearing much larger than the thin tower in the distance. Then, looking back toward the hotel from two miles away and 114 stories in the air,

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