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Nodding thistle is largely found in southwestern Manitoba.

Don’t yield to weed invaders

It’s important to stop Palmer amaranth and waterhemp in their tracks

By Manitoba Weed Supervisors Association April 23, 2024

Invasive Species Awareness Week occurs during the last week of April in Manitoba. The Manitoba Weed Supervisors Association (MWSA) recognizes this week by highlighting a few of the invasive plants considered to be a significant threat to the landscape of our province. Many of these invasive species are mistaken for wildflowers, but unlike native wildflowers,

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

By Geralyn Wichers April 23, 2024

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

EU lawmakers back Ukraine food import extension, with curbs

By Philip Blenkinsop, Reuters April 23, 2024

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to back a year-long extension to tariff-free trade for Ukrainian farm produce, while introducing new curbs on the level of imports to assuage protesting EU farmers.

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat futures rally as weather risks rattle markets

By Reuters April 22, 2024

U.S. wheat futures rallied to their highest point in more than two months before the session closed on Monday as crop weather concerns in the Northern Hemisphere supported prices and triggered technical buying and short covering, which accelerated the climb, analysts said.

Markets, News

Just how big is Brazil’s soybean crop?

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

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 22, 2024

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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Markets

U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures rally on bargain buying, geopolitical tensions

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 19, 2024

U.S. corn and soybean prices rose on Friday as heightened geopolitical tensions spurred a round of bargain buying after the benchmark contracts in both markets fell to their lowest levels in more than six weeks, traders said.

Poland is trying to move Ukraine grain by rail due to Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian sea ports on the Black Sea. Photo: IanChrisGraham/iStock/Getty Images

Crops, Markets

AAFC makes a few tweaks in Apr S&D report

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 19, 2024

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada made a small amount of changes in its April supply and disposition report released on Apr. 19. Of the changes made, nearly all were slight adjustments to its pulse and special crop numbers.

Markets, News

China cancels large Ukrainian corn purchases

It’s the latest cancellation, as China lowers imports in face of low prices

By Reuters April 19, 2024

Chinese buyers have cancelled shipments of Ukrainian-origin animal feed corn totalling several hundred thousand tonnes, traders said April 11. The precise volumes were unclear, but some traders spoke of about 300,000 tonnes cancelled in up to five Panamax shiploads that had previously been bought for April/May shipment. Most of the cancellations were in the last

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Markets

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices in holding pattern for now

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 19, 2024

With farmers across Western Canada getting ready to plant their crops or they have already made a few rounds in the field, feed grain prices across the Prairies remained in a holding pattern, according to Jerry Klassen of Resilient Capital in Winnipeg, Man.

A farmer in China piles wheat. Photo: Reuters/File

Markets

China set for bumper harvests of grains and oilseeds, ministry says

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 19, 2024

China is set for another year of bumper harvest of grains and oilseeds, helped by expanded planting of winter wheat and rapeseed and healthy growth of seedlings, the country's agriculture ministry said on Friday.

Daily Network News

U.S. to seek more foreign tariff cuts, CUSMA improvements in 2026

Iran conflict drives up urea prices

Speculative net long position grows in canola

Corn

Don’t yield to weed invaders

The gaps in Palmer amaranth, waterhemp prevention

EU lawmakers back Ukraine food import extension, with curbs

U.S. grains: Wheat futures rally as weather risks rattle markets

Just how big is Brazil’s soybean crop?

U.S. grains: Soy, corn futures rally on bargain buying, geopolitical tensions

AAFC makes a few tweaks in Apr S&D report

China cancels large Ukrainian corn purchases

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices in holding pattern for now

China set for bumper harvests of grains and oilseeds, ministry says

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