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A sunflower crop in bloom near Rathwell in central Manitoba in late July 2025.

Made-in-Manitoba sunflower hybrid heads to market

Manitoba Crop Alliance lands U.S. co-operative CHS to commercialize the first confection sunflower variety to come out of their homegrown breeding program

By Don Norman October 26, 2025

Manitoba’s confection sunflower growers will have a new seed option next spring that was developed specifically for perform in the province. The pending commercialization of one of their hybrids is a milestone for the Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), the commodity group that represents the province’s sunflower growers. The organization has invested in its own sunflower

canola, Cereals, Crops, Markets, pasture, peas

Manitoba farmers focused on harvesting

September 10, 2025

Combining in Manitoba advanced 11 points during the week ended Sept. 9, which brought the harvest to 40 per cent complete provincewide, Manitoba Agriculture reported.

According to one grain trader, Ontario organic grain prices have been mostly steady but with some harvest pressure on corn and soybeans. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

Crops, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report: Harvest nearly one-third complete

Fall rye, winter wheat near completion

By Adam Peleshaty September 4, 2025

Despite varied amounts of rainfall, Manitoba's harvest advanced to 29 per cent as of Sept. 1, 2025.

Red-winged blackbirds fly over a U.S. sunflower crop in 2017. Pic: Supercaliphotolistic/iStock/Getty Images

Crops, News

Bird repellent gets emergency approval for sunflowers

Manitoba sunflower growers can now apply Avian Control repellent to keep blackbirds away during their 2025 harvest season

By Miranda Leybourne August 28, 2025

A product called Avian Control has received emergency-use approval to become the first chemical bird repellent available to Manitoba sunflower growers, in time for use this harvest.

News, Reuters

Locusts spread in Ukraine’s south as war disrupts control measures

By Reuters July 30, 2025

A massive locust invasion is threatening sunflower and other crops in Ukraine's southern regions, largely caused by the war against Russia's invasion that makes it impossible to use traditional pest control methods, officials and producers say.

canola, Cereals, Crops, Markets, Pulses, spring-wheat, winter-wheat

Spring planting in Manitoba close to finished

Province gets very little rain over the week

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm June 4, 2025

Dry conditions continued to spur quick seeding progress in Manitoba, as the provincial agriculture department reported spring planting reached 95 per cent complete as of June 3.

Crops, Markets

Manitoba seeding 12 points ahead of pace

Most spring wheat in the ground

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm May 21, 2025

Manitoba farmers pushed their spring planting to 57 per cent complete as of May 21, up 24 points from a week ago, the province's agriculture department reported.

Crops

Manitoba farmers ride spring weather flip-flop

The first crops planted in Manitoba were seeded into dust, but that was before the weather traded heat warnings for cold and heavy rain

By Miranda Leybourne May 17, 2025

The first crops planted in Manitoba were seeded into dust, but that was before the weather traded heat warnings for cold and heavy rain going into the May long weekend.

Cereals, Forages, Markets, News, Pulses

Seeding in Manitoba picking up the pace

Most fields still have good soil moisture

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm May 7, 2025

Overall spring planting in Manitoba reached eight per cent complete as of May 6, with some areas of the province much further along, the latest provincial crop report said.

File photo of a combine harvesting a wheat crop in Ukraine. (SergBob/iStock/Getty Images)

Cereals, Reuters

APK-Inform issues Ukraine forecast for 2025/26

Cold snap halts spring seeding

By Reuters April 14, 2025

As spring planting continues in Ukraine, its agriculture ministry and consultancy APK-Inform issued their respective crop forecasts. The reports were issued just as Ukraine was still in a bitter cold snap that brought snow to most parts of the country.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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