Rainfall offers slight improvement for Manitoba crops

Rainfall offers slight improvement for Manitoba crops

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 7 (week 26)

Overview Rainfall was received in most regions of Manitoba this past week but amounts varied by region from low levels to excessive. Areas that did receive significant rainfall have commented the crops have improved slightly from the previous week. Crop development has been rapid but there is some concern for producers choosing to spray for

Soyoil futures recently found themselves in a near vertical uptrend, gaining more than 25 per cent.

Veg oil markets bubble up from depths

Expert's Radar: Dry conditions lift futures well off recent lows

Mini-donuts, churros, beaver tails, rollkuchen, funnel cake, corndogs, French fries, even Mars bars — they all taste better when fried in oil. The summer festival season of fried food from food trucks is just getting underway, while the markets for the vegetable oils filling all those deep fryers have also been heating up. Soyoil Since


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Net short drops in canola as funds cover positions

Traders expand net longs in soy, corn

MarketsFarm — Speculative traders were busy covering short positions in ICE Futures canola during the week ended June 20, taking the net short position in the market to its smallest level in four months, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As of June 20, the

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Analysts expect little change in new StatCan numbers

Weather was 'pretty conducive to plantings'

MarketsFarm — Dry conditions in much of the Prairies this spring may leave seeding areas relatively unchanged ahead of Statistic Canada’s (StatCan) principal field crop report, due to be released Wednesday. It will be the second survey-based acreage report for the 2023-24 marketing year, after the first one was released in April. While growing conditions


Crop Diagnostic School in 2022.

Good crowd expected for this year’s Crop Diagnostic School

New sponsors on board for Farmers’ Day

As many as 500 agronomists and farmers are expected to attend this year’s Crop Diagnostic School next month. “That’s the number that we’ve seen over the years,” said Marla Riekman, soil management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture and co-organizer of this year’s school. “It’s always great. We have a lot of experienced and junior agronomists that

Flea beetles can cause significant crop damage in canola.

Manitoba farmers get flea beetle reprieve

Faster plant establishment has helped canola get ahead of the pests

There is good news about flea beetles. “This year has definitely been a better story when it comes to flea beetles for Manitoba,” said Courtney Boyachek, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada. To say flea beetles have been a nuisance for canola farmers for the past several years would be an understatement. Normally,


A sprouted wheat kernel, with the sprout within the contour of the germ, is classified as “regular sprouted.”

Sprouted wheat gets grading revamp

Canada’s grain grading guide has a tighter definition of ‘severely’ sprouted wheat starting Aug. 1

The grading threshold will change this summer regarding severity of sprouted wheat. On June 13, the Canadian Grain Commission announced changes, effective Aug. 1, for how Canadian wheat is graded. It also issued a list of clarifications and new housekeeping rules for the grading of other crops it regulates. They include a shift in how

Soil cracks around corn plants below knee-high at Manchester Township, about 130 km west of Philadelphia in southern Pennsylvania, on June 6.

Dryness leads to spike in weather market

Several canola contracts punched up above $700

Growing concerns over dry conditions in North America, as well as parts of Europe, Argentina, Malaysia and elsewhere, led to a spike in oilseed and grain prices. That was particularly felt on June 15 when North American markets spiked upward and saw ICE Futures canola jump more than $20 per tonne for the most heavily-traded


ICE July 2023 canola with 20-day moving average (yellow line, right scale) and CBOT July 2023 soybean oil (dark green line, left scale). (Barchart)

ICE weekly outlook: Canola market rising into summer

New StatCan acreage estimates out next week

MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts have climbed steadily higher since their late-May lows, nearing chart resistance to the upside on the first day of summer. Updated renewable fuel targets released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to live up to expectations, sparking a speculative selloff in soyoil. While the limit-down move in soyoil

Figure 1 (left): Total accumulated precipitation; Figure 2 (right): Top 0-30 cm soil moisture.

Lack of rain concerns Manitoba producers, corn crops advancing quickly

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 6 (week 25)

Weekly Provincial Summary  Precipitation was variable across agro–Manitoba from June 12 to 18 with values ranging from 0 to 23.6 mm. Only the San Clara (23.6 mm) area in the Northwest received significant rainfall over the past seven days. Most other regions received less than 5 mm of rain. Total accumulated precipitation from May 1st