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Winter cereals, pea crop harvest nearly complete, canola harvest continues

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 28

By Manitoba Agriculture August 28, 2017

Rain fell throughout the province, but most areas received limited amounts. Rain is still needed in late season crops and on pastures. Winter cereal and pea harvest is complete in most areas. Harvest continues in spring cereals and canola. To date, winter wheat yields range from 50 to 80 bu/acre, fall rye 75 to 110

A Whole Foods store in Omaha. (WholeFoodsMarket.com)

Markets

Whole Foods slashes prices on some produce

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen, Lisa Baertlein August 28, 2017

Los Angeles/Chicago | Reuters — On its first day as part of Amazon.com, organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market slashed prices on popular items like avocados and apples on Monday by a third as it bid to shake off its “Whole Paycheque” reputation for high prices. In another sign of changes to come, a display

Rachel Evans showcases flax plots at the Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization site near Melita July 25.

Crops, Local news, Oilseeds

Flax agronomy in spotlight

Flax agronomy trials were one stop at WADO’s annual field day July 25

By Alexis Stockford August 28, 2017

Flax has become a rarer sight in Manitoba — covering only 85,000 acres last year, down from 125,000 in 2015 — but Rachel Evans, extension agronomist with the Flax Council of Canada, hopes more agronomic knowledge will help reverse that trend. Flax Council of Canada agronomy trials are now in their third year at sites

An early pasmo symptom is brown lesions on flax leaves.

Crops, Local news

Pasmo in flax every year, but severity varies

That makes decisions about applying a fungicide to protect the crop challenging sometimes

By Allan Dawson August 28, 2017

If you grow flax in Manitoba, it will have pasmo. The fungal disease, also known as Septoria linicola, can be found in every western Canadian flax field, every year. But the severity varies, making it tricky for farmers to decide whether to apply a fungicide, says Rachel Evans, the Flax Council of Canada’s extension agronomist.

A Whole Foods storefront in New York City. (WholeFoodsMarket.com)

Markets

Amazon to cut Whole Foods prices amid intense grocery turf war

By GFM Network News, Lisa Baertlein August 24, 2017

Reuters — Amazon.com said Thursday it will cut prices on a range of popular goods as it completes its acquisition of Whole Foods Market, sending shares of rival grocers tumbling over fears of even more brutal market share battles. Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods, which won antitrust approval from U.S. regulators on Wednesday,

A Whole Foods Market store in San Francisco. (WholeFoodsMarket.com)

U.S. FTC clears Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods

By GFM Network News August 23, 2017

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it has cleared Amazon.com’s planned US$13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market. The FTC said in a statement that it had reviewed whether the deal would substantially lessen competition or constituted an unfair method of competition and opted not to pursue its investigation

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Fair weather quickly advances crops, winter cereal harvest nearly complete

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for August 21

By Manitoba Agriculture August 21, 2017

Warm temperatures continue to advance crops quickly. Rain fell throughout the province, but most areas received limited amounts and more is still needed. Harvest of winter cereals and peas is nearing completion. Spring cereal harvest continues, and canola is starting to be harvested in the central region. Haying continues, but in dry areas there is

Representatives of Nuffield Canada visit Canada Malting in November 2016. (Nuffield.ca)

New crop of Nuffield scholars named

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 18, 2017

Canada’s agriculture sector has yielded four new scholars to join the international Nuffield community and receive funding for research in their fields of interest. Nuffield Canada, the Canadian arm of the international Nuffield organization since 1986, has named Ellen Crane, Josh Oulton, Gavin Robertson and Shelley Spruitt as its Nuffield scholars for 2018. The new

Field tour attendees July 25 take a closer look at an experimental hemp-legume intercrop plot.

Crops

Pushing the boundaries of intercropping

Flax and soybeans is just one combination under investigation

By Alexis Stockford August 18, 2017

There are some unusual crop combinations springing up southwest of Melita. Experimental intercrops are among the Westman Agricultural Diversification Organization (WADO) projects this year, including flax intercropped with soybeans and hemp intercropped with legumes. Pea-canola, an emerging combination already used on some Manitoba farms, and the already established wheat-legume mix are also under the microscope,

Cereals, News

Heat LQ, OK for pre-harvest application on wheat, durum and barley

Maximum Residue Limits have been set for Heat LQ applied on wheat, durum and barley

By Allan Dawson August 17, 2017

BASF’s Heat LQ herbicide can now be used pre-harvest in Canada on wheat, durum and barley without potentially hurting export markets, BASF Canada said in a news release Aug. 17. Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for Heat LQ as a harvest aid in cereals has been set by the CODEX Alimentarius Commission (CAC), a United Nation’s

Daily Network News

Feds pause update on food from cloned livestock

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end limit down

AAFC makes few changes to November S/D report

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