Farmers who need to reduce the moisture content in their grain should steer clear of advice to run their aeration fans only at night, three grain-drying experts say after comparing different methods. Chandra Singh and Ronald Larson of OPI Systems Inc., in Calgary and Digvir Jayas, the distinguished professor and Canada Research chair in stored
Night-only aeration not the best approach, three experts conclude
Veteran trader says canola futures on the decline
While Western Canadian farmers are harvesting their biggest crop of canola ever, a veteran grain trader is warning the Winnipeg canola futures contract they rely on for price setting is in decline and could disappear. “In the end all of the futures contracts (traded in Winnipeg) that have gone before have been delisted and there’s
Where have all the stubble fires gone?
Winnipeggers might be wondering where one of the autumn’s most familiar, although often unpopular, smells has gone. A sharp drop in stubble burning fires in the Red River Valley has made the smell of smoke in the fall air all but non-existent this year. As of Oct. 1, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI)
Manitoba feed wheats yielding 100 bushels an acre plus
Plantings tripled this spring and with those big yields farmers will be more interested in growing them than ever
Manitoba farmers are poised to push feedwheat acres to new highs for 2014 after this year’s harvest brought in yields as high as 100 bushels per acre. But industry officials are warning farmers to keep an eye on protein as they consider their cereal planting options. While the higher-yielding but lower protein winter wheatsProduct reduces potentially toxic corn dust
Canadian corn growers will have access next spring to a new product from Bayer CropScience that reduces dust emissions by 90 per cent. Dust from corn and soybean seed coated with neonicotinoid insecticides has been blamed for widespread bee deaths in Ontario and Quebec. “There will be no limitation on the availability of the product
NFU fears more powerful seed companies with privatized pedigreed seed inspection
Farm group argues change will eventually spell the end for independent seed growers and hand control of seed production to multinationals
The National Farmers Union is warning that the privatization of seed inspection in Canada starting next year will hurt seed growers and farmers, while making multinational seed companies even more powerful. “Independent seed growers will find themselves phased out as the seed crop inspection system, along with other essential seed-related systems such as plant breeding
Manitoba can nip clubroot in the bud
The Alberta experience doesn't need to be repeated as the disease moves east
Manitoba can nip clubroot in the bud ACanola Council of Canada agronomist is urging Manitoba farmers to act now to prevent a few isolated cases of clubroot from becoming an epidemic like it has in Alberta. Alberta might have kept clubroot, a soil-borne, yield-robbing canola disease, in check had it quarantined the first infected fields
Selling to CWB now earns farmers future equity in privatized CWB
For every tonne a farmer delivers this crop year he or she will earn $5 of equity down the road
Western Canadian farmers will get $5 of equity in a privatized CWB for every tonne sold to the CWB this crop year. The offer was recently posted on CWB’s website, Gord Flaten, CWB’s vice-president for grain procurement, said in an interview. Details were issued to grain companies Sept. 19 and information is also being sent
Dawson: Crop sales to yield equity stakes in privatized CWB
Western Canadian farmers can expect to get $5 of equity in a privatized CWB, for every tonne sold to CWB this crop year. The offer was recently posted on CWB’s website, Gord Flaten, CWB’s vice-president for grain procurement, said in an interview. Details were issued to grain companies Thursday and information is also being sent
Manitoba watershed initiative praised
The south branch of Tobacco Creek murmurs in the background as Don Cruikshank, standing on a weir, addresses a group of 30 who stand in the dark coolness of a thick canopy of trees on the bank. “From the top of the watershed, the elevation drops 600 feet in five miles,” the manager of the