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“Typically the (FHB) symptoms start to appear anywhere from 14 to 21 days after infection.” Pam de Rocquigny, Manitoba Agriculture.
Cereals, Crops

Low levels of fusarium head blight are being observed in some crops

Manitoba Agriculture cereals specialist Pam de Rocquigny has some management tips

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Fusarium head blight (FHB) symptoms were appearing in unprotected winter wheat and spring cereal variety trials last week, but at low levels. “Typically the symptoms start to appear anywhere from 14 to 21 days after infection,” Manitoba Agriculture cereals specialist Pam de Rocquigny said during the Westman CropTalk webinar July 27. “For the most part
More than 760 registered threshing team members and 139 threshing outfits are the new world record holders for the largest threshing event in history. Harvesting Hope at the annual threshing event in Austin was a fundraiser for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.
Local news

Threshers break world record at Austin


Thousands of spectators at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum July 31 
witnessed threshing outfits from across Canada and the northern 
U.S. stage the world’s largest threshing bee

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Hundreds of volunteers donned overalls and heaved sheaves on Sunday to re-enact a Prairie harvest scene on the grandest scale the world has ever seen. More than 148 antique threshing outfits rattled, hissed and ‘chuff-chuff-chuffed,’ tended by 700 participants, in the Guinness World Record attempt at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum for the most threshers operating
Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 14

Conditions as of August 2, 2016

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Winter wheat and fall rye harvest is underway in Manitoba. To date, preliminary reports indicate winter wheat yields range from 60 to 95 bu/acre, and fall rye yields range from 40 to 90 bu/acre. Weekend thunderstorms resulted in variable amounts of precipitation, hail activity and lodging of crops across some areas of Manitoba. The majority
An aerial photo shows 25 to 30 of the antique threshing machines at the July 31 Harvesting Hope world record attempt at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. (Shaylyn McMahon photo courtesy Harvesting Hope)
Crops

Manitoba threshing bee yields new world record

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Owners and operators of antique threshing machines unofficially cracked the world record for a threshing bee at a fundraising event Sunday for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Manitoba Agricultural Museum. The Harvesting Hope event, held at the museum site at Austin, about 45 km west of Portage la Prairie, saw 139 threshing machines run simultaneously
(Country Guide file photo)
Crops, Markets

Prairie wheat bids tick downward

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CNS Canada –– Spring wheat cash bids across Western Canada recorded minor losses during the week ended Friday. The declines were traced to weakness in U.S. futures and some minor strengthening in the Canadian dollar. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down $3 per tonne, according to price
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets

Japan, Korea block certain U.S. wheat varieties

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Chicago | Reuters — Japan and South Korea have both taken steps to block certain imports of U.S. wheat after unapproved genetically-modified (GMO) plants from Monsanto seeds were found growing in Washington state, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Monday. Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry said it will
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy tumbles on favourable weather

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures slipped about four per cent on Monday as forecasts for favourable weather in the Midwestern crop belt prompted investors to liquidate long positions, traders said. Corn and wheat followed soybeans lower, and declines in the energy sector pressured the broader commodity sector. The 19-market Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB

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