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Fusarium fight goes high-resolution

Fungal infection will now be monitored by new Prairie-wide model

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A new, made-in-Manitoba tool to assess the risk of fusarium head blight will be available to farmers across the Prairies this spring. After five years in development, the University of Manitoba agriculture department will make the tool available for use after an April 12 launch. “We wanted to embark on a project with a specific
CBOT May 2023 soybeans with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Crop futures slide on disappointing export sales, improved weather

Traders adjust positions before Easter weekend

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade grain and soybean futures crumbled on Thursday on disappointing U.S. export sales and an improved weather outlook for U.S. spring plantings, analysts said. U.S. soybean export sales for 2022-23 were 155,300 tonnes for the week ended March 30, down 42 per cent from the prior four-week average,
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Crops, Markets

Prairie cash wheat: Bids drift lower

U.S. wheat futures down on week

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MarketsFarm — Spring wheat bids in Western Canada softened during the week ended Wednesday, as choppiness in U.S. futures and strength in the Canadian dollar weighed on values. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were down by $1.60-$6.90 per tonne across the Prairies, according to price quotes from a
Parrish and Heimbecker says this view of its Kincardine, Ont. site, pre-construction, shows where a new truck receiving area will be set up. (ParrishAndHeimbecker.com)
Crops

P+H upgrading southwestern Ontario elevator

Improved unload times expected for wheat deliveries

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Updated, April 6 — Agrifood firm Parrish and Heimbecker has started “major” upgrades on one of its southwestern Ontario grain elevators, with plans to dedicate the site to milling wheat. Winnipeg-based P+H said Tuesday the work already underway at its inland facility on Highway 21 just south of Kincardine will boost unloading speeds on grain
Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago. (Vito Palmisano/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. planted acres in flux

USDA's next WASDE due out Tuesday; ending stocks expected to increase

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MarketsFarm — Ahead of the April supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Scott Capinegro of Barrington Commodities said he expects ending stocks to increase — while planted acres are likely to change. “After looking at the [quarterly grain] stocks numbers, you would think they would be lowering ending stocks just
CBOT May 2023 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. grains: Chicago futures lower on U.S. weather outlooks

Traders keep eye on warming trend for northern states

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Mexico City | Reuters — Chicago corn futures closed lower on Wednesday after a day of ups and downs on improved weather outlooks for planting season in the U.S. and market readjustments from technically oversold positions, traders said. The prospect of a drier, warmer spell boosting spring field work in the northern farm belt that
CBOT May 2023 soft red winter wheat with 20-day moving average, MGEX May 2023 hard red spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. May 2023 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago grains down on better weather, profit-taking

U.S. winter wheat crop rating reported at lowest since 1989

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Mexico City | Reuters — Chicago grains futures closed lower on Tuesday as traders took profits, analysts said, while improving weather forecasts eased concerns about planting in the United States. Blizzard warnings were posted on Tuesday across most of the northern Plains spring wheat belt, but forecasts called for a turn to warmer and drier
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Farmit Manitoba

Beneficial insects bring farmer benefit

They’re an often overlooked limiting factor for crop eating pests

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Insecticides do a lot of good work in fields but they’re also a measure of last resort. The first line of defence is frequently an unpaid and overlooked army of beneficial insects that protect the crop by feasting on its insect foes. John Gavloski, Manitoba’s provincial entomologist, told a recent Crop Talk webinar that often when pest populations
File photo of an irrigated alfalfa stand in Saudi Arabia. (JohnnyGreig/E+/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Saudi Arabia highly dependent on grain imports

Alfalfa more profitable for domestic growers

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MarketsFarm — While Saudi Arabia is a giant among the oil-producing countries of the world, the desert kingdom does produce small amounts of grain. With a population that’s about one million less than Canada’s, Saudi Arabia is extremely dependent on importing its grain from overseas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) attaché in Riyadh explained
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Crops, Markets

Canola short position finally subsiding

CBOT wheat, corn also net short

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MarketsFarm — After hitting the largest speculative short position in canola on record, managed money fund traders were finally covering those bearish bets in late March, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). As of March 28, the net managed money short position in canola futures

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