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Seed industry applauds PBR consultations

Sessions will be held in four cities — including Winnipeg — with seed growers and other groups

By Alex Binkley October 22, 2018

Agriculture Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be consulting with seed trade groups in the coming weeks on proposed Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations released in April. Those sessions in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Ottawa will be followed up with sessions in November that will include the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Grain Growers of

Propane deliveries have hit a frenzy in Saskatchewan, although the same service delays have not been noted in Manitoba so far.

Crops, News

Wet weather fuels propane demand for grain dryers

Co-op says propane deliveries have hit record highs in Saskatchewan and are elevated elsewhere, although there have not yet been widespread service issues in Manitoba

By Alexis Stockford October 22, 2018

Propane demand has skyrocketed across the Prairies as more farmers look to their grain dryers, but Manitoba has so far avoided the service crunch. Demand for drying capacity has seen a sharp rise given the region’s early taste of winter. In the western Prairies, photos of producers checking standing crops via snowmobile have streamed over

As the weather window opened up, a Manitoba soybean producer near Bagot takes to the field on Oct. 17, 2018. Photo: File/Greg Berg

Crops, Markets, Weather

Manitoba harvest nearing completion

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News October 22, 2018

CNS Canada – Warm and dry weather helped advance harvest across Manitoba during the week ended Oct. 22, according to the provincial report. Harvest progress was 91 per cent complete as of Oct. 22, up seven percentage points from the previous week. The spring wheat, barley, oat and dry bean harvests are 99 per cent

Agriculture Canada’s market analysis branch forecast canola ending stocks for 2018/19 is double the September estimate. Photo: File

Agriculture Canada ups canola carryout forecast sharply

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team October 22, 2018

Winnipeg | CNS Canada – Canadian canola carryout stocks at the end of the current marketing year (2018/19) will be considerably larger than an earlier estimate, according to updated supply/demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released on Oct. 19, 2018. Agriculture Canada’s market analysis branch forecast canola ending stocks for 2018/19 at 2.500 million

Last week in Rome a Canadian delegation led by Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay met with officials from ANACER (Associazione Nazionale Cerealisti), Italy’s grain trade association, to address Italy’s unfair barriers to Canadian durum wheat imports. Cereals Canada president Cam Dahl (l to r), MacAulay, Fabrizio Ricci, ANACER, Andrea Galli, ANACER and Canada’s Ambassador to Italy, Alexandra Bugailiskis.

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Canada pushes for end to durum dispute

Agriculture Minister MacAulay pushes Italy to end barriers to Canadian durum imports

By Allan Dawson October 19, 2018

Regaining Canada’s traditional durum wheat export market to Italy requires a two-pronged approach — diplomacy and legal action through the World Trade Organization (WTO), says Cereals Canada president Cam Dahl. But Canada’s Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay wouldn’t commit to the latter, when speaking to reporters from Rome Oct. 11, after the high-level Canadian delegation he

Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay says U.S. wheat will be treated exactly like Canadian wheat which means unregistered varieties will automatically receive the lowest grade.

News

MacAulay clarifies USMCA, wheat grading, dairy compensation

The minister also briefed reporters on his EU trade mission last week

By Allan Dawson October 19, 2018

American wheat entering a Canadian elevator will be graded like Canadian wheat under terms of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), says Canadian Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay. That means to be eligible for a Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) grade, wheat, whether grown in the U.S. or Canada, must be from a variety registered in Canada.

CBOT December 2018 corn (in black) and November 2018 soybeans (in green). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit one-week low on export woes

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen October 19, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell to a one-week low on Friday and recorded a second straight weekly decline, pressured by fresh cancellations of U.S. soybean sales, traders said. Corn futures fell for a fourth straight session and also notched a weekly drop, while wheat futures firmed after a three-session slide. Chicago Board

CBOT November 2018 soybeans with 20-day moving average. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans down as exports disappoint, weather improves

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen October 18, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell more than two per cent on Thursday, with the benchmark November contract recording its largest single-day decline since August, on disappointing weekly export sales and improving U.S. harvest weather, analysts said. Corn and wheat followed the weak tone. Chicago Board of Trade November soybeans futures settled down

Grain Markets, Markets

Dropping dollar pushes Prairie wheat bids higher

The MGEX December spring wheat contract rose 4.75 U.S. cents on the week

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm October 18, 2018

Wheat bids in Western Canada were higher for the week ended Oct. 12, taking support from a weaker Canadian dollar. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were up by $11-$13 per tonne, according to price quotes from a cross-section of delivery points compiled by PDQ (Price and Data Quotes).

Farmers need to call crop insurance before destroying crops, even if they don’t think they are in a claim position because the yield counts as part of a farmer’s long-term average, resulting in higher crop insurance coverage.

Crops, Local news

No rush to crop insurance yet

Before destroying a crop be sure to contact MASC even if you don’t expect a payout

By Allan Dawson October 18, 2018

Farmers should contact their crop insurance representative before destroying unharvested crops — even if they don’t expect to qualify for a payment, a Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation official says. David Van Deynze, MASC’s vice-president of insurance operations, said if the crop is badly degraded, or impractical to harvest, adjusters will still estimate the yield that

Daily Network News

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

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