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Feed weekly outlook: Declining prices not raising buyers’ interest

By Adam Peleshaty – MarketsFarm, GFM Network News July 28, 2022

MarketsFarm – Despite prices for Western Canadian feed barley and wheat continuing to decline, buyers are not opening their wallets just yet. Erin Harakal, trade manager for Agfinity Inc. in Stony Plain, Alta., said while growing prospects of a more typical harvest are making cereal crops more affordable, there is still a wait-and-see attitude from

Military officers from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and members of delegations from both countries and U.N. attend the opening ceremony of a joint coordination centre that will oversee a U.N.-brokered deal to re-open Ukrainian grain exports in the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 27, 2022. Photo: Reuters/Umit Bektas

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Ukraine grain export coordination centre opens in Istanbul

By GFM Network News July 27, 2022

Istanbul | Reuters – Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar on Wednesday unveiled a centre in Istanbul to oversee the export of Ukrainian grains after a landmark U.N. deal last week, with the first shipment expected to depart from Black Sea ports within days. Russia and Ukraine signed the deal, brokered by Ankara and the United

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As grain prices fall, food prices to ease first in developing world -U.S. official

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News July 26, 2022

Sao Paulo | Reuters – Seth Meyer, chief economist at the United States Department of Agriculture, said on Tuesday weaker commodities prices will take longer to ease food inflation in the United States than in the developing world. Some of the world’s poorest nations were hardest hit by a spike in corn and wheat prices after Russia’s

The conditions this year are ideal for fusarium head blight.

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High-risk for fusarium head blight on winter wheat

Conditions are lining up for an unusual issue in a crop that ordinarily escapes fusarium

By Don Norman June 30, 2022

It’s time to consider fungicide applications for winter wheat crops. Persistent rains, warm temperatures and late emergence are conspiring to create pretty much ideal conditions for the fusarium head blight pathogen to thrive, according to David Kaminski, field crops pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture. “Most of the time, as a crop, [winter wheat] escapes infection because

“There is still a pile of corn going into southern Alberta,” says one trader at Eagle Commodities Ltd. Photo: MaksymTopchyi/iStock/Getty Images

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Feed weekly outlook: Decline in feed grain prices anticipated

By Adam Peleshaty – MarketsFarm, GFM Network News June 29, 2022

MarketsFarm – Much-needed rains falling onto most parts of Alberta have created ideal growing conditions for feed grains in the province, which has already created a slight decline in prices. “Southern Alberta has been very, very dry, but we’ve had anywhere from four to six inches of rain over the last three weeks,” said Mike

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Argentina’s Bioceres says GMO wheat gets OK from U.S. FDA

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek June 27, 2022

London/Chicago | Reuters – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded a review of Argentine biotechnology firm Bioceres’ BIOX.BA genetically modified (GMO) wheat without further questions, a “key step” to commercializing it in the United States, the company said on Monday. While corn and soy crops used predominantly to feed livestock are commonly planted with

Price movement for both feed barley and feed wheat in Western Canada have been mixed. Photo: Canada Beef Inc.

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Feed weekly outlook: Barley, wheat prices starting to soften

By Adam Peleshaty – MarketsFarm, GFM Network News June 23, 2022

MarketsFarm – It appears that the days of feedlots on the Prairies primarily using corn may be coming to an end. After nearly a year of feedlots importing corn from the United States, due to tight supply and higher prices for feed barley and feed wheat in Western Canada, demand has mostly turned towards cereal

A stand of kernza, a perennial distant relative of wheat.

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How scientific minds changed toward perennial grains

Early boosters were voices on the fringe: Today, perennial crops are sought by researchers worldwide — including Manitoba

By Geralyn Wichers June 16, 2022

In the early days of kernza — a perennial grain crop related to wheat — plant breeders at The Land Institute in Kansas couldn’t get a government grant to save their lives. “We got very nice compliments on our writing of the grant proposals and harsh criticism on the value of actually doing the work,”

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The (wheat) wonder Down Under

Australia set for third year of bumper wheat harvests, easing world supply woes

By Naveen Thukral June 15, 2022

Reuters – Australia is poised for a third year of near-record wheat production in 2022 as good weather boosts planting across its Grain Belt, easing concerns over tight global inventories. World wheat supplies have tightened after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year cut off shipments from one of the top exporting regions, sending grain prices sharply higher and

Critics of the existing regulatory framework say cereals productivity has lagged, while others say the numbers don’t support this assertion.

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Analysis: Seed Summit long on rhetoric, short on specifics

Seed firms may not like the rules, but they don’t seem to have much sense of what they’d like to see replace them

By Allan Dawson April 22, 2022

Three meetings, over three weeks, and a total of nine hours later, Brett Halstead says he still doesn’t know what regulatory changes the seed industry wants. “I still haven’t really heard what the problems are,” the Saskatchewan farmer and chair of the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission said during the final online Seed Summit meeting Feb.

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U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

U.S. livestock: Cattle fall back as inventory hits 75-year low

Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

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Feed weekly outlook: Declining prices not raising buyers’ interest

Ukraine grain export coordination centre opens in Istanbul

As grain prices fall, food prices to ease first in developing world -U.S. official

High-risk for fusarium head blight on winter wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Decline in feed grain prices anticipated

Argentina’s Bioceres says GMO wheat gets OK from U.S. FDA

Feed weekly outlook: Barley, wheat prices starting to soften

How scientific minds changed toward perennial grains

The (wheat) wonder Down Under

Analysis: Seed Summit long on rhetoric, short on specifics

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