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CHS says Viterra intriguing at right price

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farm co-operative and grains trader CHS Inc. would be interested in the Canadian grain handling assets of embattled commodities trader Glencore, but only if they came at a discounted price, CHS CEO Carl Casale said in an exclusive interview. As part of a debt-reduction plan, Swiss-based Glencore has said it
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Crops, Markets

Next StatsCan survey expected to show larger canola, wheat crops

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CNS Canada — Yields are generally beating earlier expectations as the harvest progresses across Western Canada, which should lead to upward revisions to canola and wheat when Statistics Canada releases its latest production survey results Friday. However, those numbers still may be underreported, and further revisions are expected in subsequent reports. “As the harvest is
Favourable weather, warm temps make for good harvest progress
Crops, Local news, Weather

Favourable weather, warm temps make for good harvest progress

Conditions as of September 28, 2015

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Favourable weather conditions of warm temperatures and minimal rainfall allowed for good harvest progress across most of Manitoba. Winter wheat and fall rye is emerging with excellent germination and stand establishment reported. Fall field work including post-harvest weed control, fall fertilizer applications, tillage and soil testing is on-going. Click here for the Crop Weather Report
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Crops, Weather

Flax crop could average 30 bushels an acre

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CNS Canada –– Canada’s 2015-16 flax crop could be about 30 per cent bigger than last year’s, according to an expert in the industry. “A million tonnes is what they’re talking about for Canada,” said Richard Zacharias, general manager of Prairie Flax Products near Portage la Prairie, Man. While the majority of the crop still
sunflower head at harvest
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 21

Conditions as of September 21, 2015

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Above normal temperatures allowed for excellent harvest progress over the past week in Manitoba, with harvest of spring cereal crops nearing completion. Harvest of canola, flax, edible beans and soybeans continues. Sunflower harvest has also started in the Central and Eastern Regions, and grain corn harvest is expected to start shortly in some areas of
U.S. consumers’ demand for organic foods, such as this California lettuce, has risen steadily in the past decade — particularly in California, which alone accounted for 41 per cent of U.S. organic sales in 2014. (Eric Brennan photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
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Sales from organic U.S. farms reached $5.5B last year

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Chicago | Reuters — Sales from organic U.S. farms reached US$5.5 billion last year, a 72 per cent increase from 2008, the U.S. Agriculture Department said in a report on Thursday that highlighted the consumer trend toward such products. The USDA data, compiled through farmer surveys, showed that milk was the top organic commodity in
ripening soybeans
Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 19

Conditions as of September 8, 2015

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Harvest 2015 continued across Manitoba over the past week, but wet weather over the weekend temporarily halted harvest progress. Harvest operations have since resumed in areas that received lower rainfall amounts and where field conditions allowed. Winter wheat seeding is underway in the Central and Eastern Regions of Manitoba. Fall field work, including tillage, baling
Former Morden Research Station ornamental breeder Wilbert Ronald of Jeffries Nurseries Ltd. says Canada’s nursery and landscape industry owes a lot to research conducted at the Morden Research Station, which celebrated its 100th anniversary Aug. 12.
Crops

Dawson: One hundred years of research at Morden

Although a long list of new field crops continues to be developed at the station, 
Morden is still famous for its work in ornamentals

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While visiting a remote village in India several years ago, I watched women hand-pollinating a field of sunflowers — it was too dry and hot for bees. But even more surprising was the name of the variety — Morden. It was an open-pollinated cultivar developed by Eric Putt at the Morden Research Station half a

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