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With fertilizer costs high and seed scarce, U.S. farmers turn to soy

'These prices are just crazy'

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen, Mark Weinraub February 23, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — North Dakota farmer Jennifer Meyer typically devotes at least 20 per cent of her 2,500-acre farm to corn, which provides a convenient feed for the cattle she raises with her husband. But this year she is looking to find another crop for those 500 acres near Wilton as she has been

Canada exports organic wheat around the world.

Markets, News

Organic grains snapshot

Climbing acreage, high prices, good contracts, but expansion may be a tough sell in 2022

By Geralyn Wichers February 22, 2022

With timely rains, organic farming could be a good place to be in 2022 — but it may not be enough to drive expansion of organic acres, said Laura Telford and Stuart McMillan. In a talk during the Prairie Organics Conference on February 9, Telford, the provincial organic specialist, and McMillan, an organic farmer and organic inspector, shared

Greenhouse manager Carmen Grey lifts a raft of lettuce to show the roots underneath.

Farmit Manitoba

Synergistic farming system teaches kids business, science

MBTI’s aquaponics operation grows fish and fresh produce in the heart of Winnipeg

By Geralyn Wichers February 18, 2022

Outside snow is piled high and despite the bright sun, it’s a frigid Winnipeg afternoon. Cars whiz by on McPhillips Street. But out of sight of traffic and the railway tracks, fish swirl past the windows of two blue tanks and lettuce, chard and herbs dangle roots from bobbing Styrofoam rafts. In a warm, sunlit

Nutrien’s potash mine at Lanigan, Sask., about 100 km southeast of Saskatoon. (Nutrien.com)

Crops

Nutrien takes cautious potash approach as rival copes with sanctions

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel February 18, 2022

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s Nutrien, the world’s biggest fertilizer company, is bumping up potash production as sanctions restrict its rival in Belarus, but is holding off on bigger expansion, its interim CEO said on Thursday. Potash prices have climbed to decade highs as state-owned Belaruskali, the second-largest producer after Nutrien, copes with U.S. and

Paragon Ag Service’s site west of Melfort. (Lakecountryco-op.crs)

Crops

Two Saskatchewan co-ops to buy ag input retailer

Paragon Ag Service assets to be divvied up

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 17, 2022

A pair of Saskatchewan co-operatives are expanding their reach in the crop input retail sector in that province’s northeast, with a deal to buy an independent dealership chain. Lake Country Co-op and Prairie North Co-op announced Tuesday they have agreements in place to buy the assets of Melfort-based Paragon Ag Service from owners Sherman Boland

Markets, Other

Gasoline, diesel prices set to continue rising

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 17, 2022

MarketsFarm — The steady rise in crude oil prices is based on three factors, according to Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for Oil Price Information Service at Lakewood, N.J. One of those factors is the amount of crude oil produced by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), along with some

Soil biology is garnering more attention as crop input costs rise.

News

Farmers test microbes to nourish crops as climate pressure grows, costs rise

Soil biologicals are getting a lot of attention — and research money — in the past couple of years

By Karl Plume, Rod Nickel February 16, 2022

Reuters – Tech companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars, including backing from agriculture heavyweights like Bayer AG, in developing farm products that use living things like microbes and seaweed to nourish crops and lessen the need for synthetic fertilizer. Microbes, including fungi and viruses, have been available for decades as treatments to protect

RCMP on Feb. 14, 2022 reported seizing the guns, ammunition and other items shown here during a search of three trailers "associated to" a group involved with the Coutts, Alta. border blockade. (An earlier version of this caption incorrectly quoted RCMP as saying the trailers were at the blockade.) (Photo courtesy Alberta RCMP)

Markets

Alberta border blockade expected to disperse Tuesday

Decision comes amid arrests, reported violence at blockade

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News February 15, 2022

Amid reports of violence involving a farm tractor and trucks — and seizures of weapons — the protest blockade that shut Alberta’s busiest U.S. trade corridor is reported to be winding down starting Tuesday. Several media outlets on Monday quoted organizers of the blockade at the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Coutts, Alta. as saying they

News

Kremlin says shipping Belarus potash via Russian ports being discussed

By Reuters February 14, 2022

Moscow is discussing the possibility of shipping Belarusian potash via Russian ports, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters February 2. Sanctions-hit Belarus said it had diverted its potash shipments from Lithuania’s Klaipeda port to Russian ports after Vilnius decided to halt the use of its railway for Belarus exports of the crop nutrient. “This

Agronomists say the drought has left a lot of variability out there, so careful soil testing will be a valuable tool.

News, Other

This is a year for a plan when planting

Have Plans A, B and C in place this spring, agronomists say

By Gord Leathers February 14, 2022

This is going to be the year for cagey planning, according to Manitoba agronomists Wendy Kostur of Gilbert Plains and Jason Voogt of Carman. The two big factors are last year’s drought, which has left moisture levels low, combined with this year’s input costs, they told the Manitoba Agronomist Conference earlier this winter. “This is

Daily Network News

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

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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