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Greig to chair wheat research council

CWRC announces new executive and president; AWC obtains host duties

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 21, 2020

The Canadian Wheat Research Coalition (CWRC) — a collaboration between the Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission (Sask Wheat) and Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC), has announced its newly appointed executive and president. The new executive is comprised of chair Fred Greig (MCA) who farms at Reston, vice-chair Jake Leguee (Sask Wheat), a farmer from

Corn crops will fare better if they’re planted into warmer soils, which helps them clear the key emergence hurdle.

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Corn comes with challenges in Western Canada

It all starts with sufficiently warm soils, says one corn specialist

By Don Norman October 5, 2020

Successful corn crops in Western Canada begin with getting the soil as warm as possible prior to seeding. That’s according to Wilt Billing, corn and soybean line manager with Nutrien Ag Solutions, speaking at this summers’ Ag in Motion Discovery Plus virtual farm show. Billing told viewers that warmer spring soils would enable the crop

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Feed weekly outlook: Clearer picture of coming crop means lower prices

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 13, 2020

MarketsFarm — Prices for feed barley and wheat have been trending lower recently, according to Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. While there has been some harvest pressure, Motz said “it’s more of an equalization of the crops. “We got through the crunch of July not knowing exactly where things were at. As

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Feed weekly outlook: Feed grains come under harvest pressure

By GFM Network News July 31, 2020

MarketsFarm – Delayed springtime planting pushed back the feed grain harvest. As a result, prices for old crop feed grains are now beginning to converge with new crop prices. “It feels like we’re transitioning towards new crop,” remarked Travis Ebens, a grains trader with CorNine Commodities in Lacombe, Alta. He said prices for feed barley

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Comment: Innovation through collaboration

Canada benefits from having a co-ordinated national approach to research

By Victoria Linden July 22, 2020

Innovation is a competitive advantage for Canadian farmers. It is through ongoing innovation that Canadian wheat exports will compete with the likes of the Black Sea. In the period of 2015-18, Canada has consistently been in the top 10 wheat-producing countries in the world and within the top five wheat-exporting countries in the world. Focusing

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Saudi Arabia completes first phase of flour mill privatization

By GFM Network News, Maha El Dahan July 8, 2020

Dubai/London | Reuters — Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it had completed the first batch of its flour milling sector privatization, according to a statement by the state grain buyer and privatization centre. The long-awaited flour mills sale was one of the first privatizations the kingdom planned as part of a wide-reaching overhaul of its

Cigi staff evaluate wheat flour for use in oriental noodles. (Cigi photo)

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‘New’ Cereals Canada names board, chair

The merged Cereals Canada/Cigi unit held its first annual meeting

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News June 23, 2020

Alberta farmer Todd Hames was elected Monday as the chair of the board for the recently reconstituted Cereals Canada, at its first-ever annual meeting. The ‘new’ Cereals Canada was created June 1 when it and the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi) amalgamated after two years of discussions and the approval of their respective boards April

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EU cuts wheat production, export outlook for 2020-21

By Reuters June 8, 2020

Reuters – The European Commission on May 28 sharply lowered its forecast for common wheat production in the European Union’s 27 member countries in 2020-21 to 121.5 million tonnes from 125.8 million estimated a month ago. That would be seven per cent below estimated EU-27 production of common wheat, or soft wheat, of 130.8 million

A healthy wheat head at left and one with severe symptoms of fusarium head blight at right. (Keith Weller photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Cereals, Crops

Alberta deregulates fusarium

Crop disease comes off province's 'zero tolerance' list

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 5, 2020

Alberta is moving to keep fusarium in check by means other than the “zero tolerance” policy it has in effect on agricultural pests such as rats, rabies and clubroot. Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen announced a ministerial order Wednesday to remove Fusarium graminearum from the list of pests covered by the Pest and Nuisance Control Regulation,

“Winter wheat used to have a 40 per cent yield advantage to spring wheat and now that’s shrunk down to 10 to 20 per cent.” – Ken Gross.

Cereals, Crops

Winter wheat down, but not out

Winter wheat acres have slid to a fraction of where they were even five years ago

By Alexis Stockford April 30, 2020

Winter wheat is off to a good start in 2020, but there aren’t all that many acres around. Ken Gross, agronomist with the Western Winter Wheat Initiative, says many winter wheat acres were planted just in time to catch the same moisture that ground harvest to a halt last year, and so saw good growth

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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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Greig to chair wheat research council

Corn comes with challenges in Western Canada

Feed weekly outlook: Clearer picture of coming crop means lower prices

Feed weekly outlook: Feed grains come under harvest pressure

Comment: Innovation through collaboration

Saudi Arabia completes first phase of flour mill privatization

‘New’ Cereals Canada names board, chair

EU cuts wheat production, export outlook for 2020-21

Alberta deregulates fusarium

Winter wheat down, but not out

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