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"Winter wheat has an amazing ability to produce a lot of tillers,“ says Lionel Kaskiw with Manitoba Agriculture.

Green winter wheat no guarantee it’s alive

Dig up a few plants and look for white roots as a sign they survived winter

By Allan Dawson May 2, 2018

Green-leaved winter wheat this time of year is a promising sign, but no guarantee the crop survived the winter. “Some of those plants are still green from last fall,” Lionel Kaskiw, Manitoba Agriculture’s Souris-based Farm Production Advisor said May 1 during the Westman Crop Talk webinar. “But it definitely is nice right now to see

Data represents reported seeding date and crop yields of fields >200 acres (2005-2013).

Crops, Local news

Cool soils? Seed cereals, field peas first

Manitoba soil temperatures are increasing, but vary with soil type and location

By Allan Dawson May 2, 2018

If soil temperatures are cool plant cereals and field peas first, says Manitoba Agriculture Farm Production Advisor Lionel Kaskiw, based in Souris. Soil temperatures are warming, but are still variable depending on soil type and location, he said during the Westman Crop Talk webinar May. 1. Soil temperature readings are available at 109 Manitoba Agriculture

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Limited upside seen for U.S. soybeans

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News May 2, 2018

CNS Canada — It’s a fluid set of circumstances for the U.S. soybean market these days as U.S. negotiators head to China in a bid to get proposed tariffs lowered on U.S. imports — but the potential for any major rally appears limited. “I would say the beans have a more limited upside than the

Emergence in an Ontario soybean field. (File photo by John Greig)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on bleak export view

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub May 2, 2018

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures fell on Wednesday on concerns about decreased export demand from China as well as rising expectations for a bumper crop in Brazil, traders said. Wheat futures were mixed. Soft red winter wheat offerings eased after a rally on Tuesday while hard red winter wheat contracts rose due to

The Elbe River at Oberrathen, southeast of Dresden. (CIA.gov)

Crops

Germany plans to toughen conditions for insecticide use

By GFM Network News, Reuters May 2, 2018

Berlin | Reuters — Germany plans to make it more difficult for farmers to use crop insecticides in a bid to preserve biodiversity, an environment ministry document showed. “Insect biomass has fallen by more than 75 per cent in the last 27 years in Germany,” according to the paper seen by Reuters on Wednesday, saying

The Andersons’ ethanol plant at Denison, Iowa. (AndersonsEthanol.com)

Crops

U.S. ethanol makers snap up cheap sorghum after China tariffs

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer, Tom Polansek May 2, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. ethanol makers have joined global livestock producers to snap up discounted American sorghum supplies after buyers in China backed out of deals due to stiff anti-dumping tariffs on the grain imposed by Beijing in a mounting trade dispute. Sorghum is used to feed animals and represents a fraction of the

Crops

Voting scheduled for CP employees on verge of strike

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 2, 2018

Engineers, conductors and signal maintainers who’d been poised to walk off the job at Canadian Pacific Railway almost two weeks ago will instead continue business as usual until at least May 26. The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) this week informed CP and two of its employees’ unions — the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC)

Markets

U.S. trade chief says NAFTA approval on ‘thin ice’ without deal soon

By Dave Graham, David Lawder, GFM Network News May 1, 2018

Washington/Mexico City | Reuters –– U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Tuesday that if a deal to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement cannot be reached with Canada and Mexico in about three weeks, its approval by the U.S. Congress could be in jeopardy. Lighthizer said at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event

Crops

POET unseats ADM as top global fuel ethanol maker

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer May 1, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Privately held, U.S.-based POET has overtaken industry pioneer and global grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland to become the top ethanol producer in the world, the companies told Reuters. ADM had been the biggest ethanol maker since the U.S. began requiring refiners to mix billions of gallons of biofuels into the nation’s

Environment Canada on April 30 released this forecast map for the probability of above-normal precipitation for the period of May through July 2018.

Crops, Weather

May showers likely to leave growers unsatisfied

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 30, 2018

CNS Canada — Canada’s Prairies can expect to see regular rainfall in most regions during May, but it likely won’t be enough to offset dry conditions recorded over the past several months. According to Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. in Kansas City, the first half of May should see average rainfall amounts in most

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Cereals

Green winter wheat no guarantee it’s alive

Cool soils? Seed cereals, field peas first

CBOT weekly outlook: Limited upside seen for U.S. soybeans

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on bleak export view

Germany plans to toughen conditions for insecticide use

U.S. ethanol makers snap up cheap sorghum after China tariffs

Voting scheduled for CP employees on verge of strike

U.S. trade chief says NAFTA approval on ‘thin ice’ without deal soon

POET unseats ADM as top global fuel ethanol maker

May showers likely to leave growers unsatisfied

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