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2021 variety selection data for winter cereals is now available

By Anne Kirk September 8, 2021

Yield results from the 2021 MCVET (Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team) fall rye and winter wheat testing locations are now available to help producers with variety selection decisions. Data from all locations was not available at the time of publication; more information will be included in Seed Manitoba 2022 in November. Yield, agronomic, and disease-resistance

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Feed weekly outlook: DDGs becoming another feed option

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News August 9, 2021

MarketsFarm – As traditional feed grains such as barley and wheat become more expensive due to persistent drought-like conditions in the Prairies, many feedlots are using alternative sources of feed for their animals. Dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGs), the grain by-products which remain after starch has been fermented through the making of alcohol or

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North Dakota spring wheat crop slashed by drought

By Karl Plume August 5, 2021

Reuters – The average spring wheat yield in North Dakota, the U.S.’s top producing state for the crop, was estimated at 29.1 bushels per acre on July 29 by the annual Wheat Quality Council tour. It is the lowest on record going back to 1993 due to a severe drought in the northern Plains. The

A sharply smaller spring wheat harvest due to drought may force bakers to change how they work with flour. Photo: DanielBendjy/E+/Getty Images

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Millers, bakers fret as drought withers North America’s spring wheat

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, Rod Nickel August 5, 2021

Reuters – Millers and bakers are draining wheat reserves and paying more for spring wheat used in baking, as drought shrivels crops across the Canadian Prairies and northern U.S. Plains that produce more than half of the world’s supply. U.S. and Canadian farmers are bracing for a sharply smaller spring wheat harvest due to the

Alberta’s barley harvest this year is expected to be ‘fairly light,’ according to one commodity trader. Photo: File

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Feed weekly outlook: Reduced yields starting to become a reality

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News July 30, 2021

MarketsFarm – As old crop stocks of feed barley and feed wheat continue to dwindle, the realization of reduced yields is now supporting bids for new crop. “Down here, there are a few guys that are starting to pull off some barley here in the next little bit. You’re going to find that the barley

North Dakota is the biggest U.S. producer of spring wheat, used in artisanal breads, pizza dough and bagels. Photo: Thinkstock

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Southern, eastern North Dakota spring wheat yields hurt by drought

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume July 28, 2021

Mandan, N.D. | Reuters – Spring wheat yields in southern and east central North Dakota are well below average as a severe drought slashed production potential in the country’s top producing state, scouts on an annual crop tour said on Tuesday. Crop scouts calculated an average spring wheat yield at 29.5 bushels per acre (bpa)

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Strategie Grains lifts EU grain crop and export forecasts

By Reuters July 27, 2021

Consultant Strategie Grains has further increased its monthly production forecasts for all three major cereals in the European Union in the current 2021-22 season, which it said will help the bloc to meet higher projected demand on the global market. However, the consultancy also echoed mounting concerns over the potential impact on grain quality from

The Italgrani USA durum mill at St. Louis, Missouri. (CNW Group/Richardson International)

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Richardson to buy major U.S. durum processor

Italgrani's milling, grain handling assets to go to Winnipeg firm

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News July 9, 2021

Agrifood firm Richardson International is set to expand and further diversify its grain processing space with a deal for what’s billed as North America’s single largest durum flour and semolina miller. The Winnipeg company said Thursday it will buy 100 per cent of the shares in Italgrani USA Inc., whose assets include a mill, elevator

Stripe rust in wheat. (Yue Jin photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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Kansas wheat tour finds above-average yield prospects but also disease

By Julie Ingwersen May 31, 2021

Reuters – Yield prospects for hard red winter wheat in central Kansas were above average, scouts on an annual crop tour found earlier this month, although yield-robbing diseases, primarily stripe rust, were prevalent in some areas, reflecting generally cool and wet conditions. Kansas is the top U.S. producer of winter wheat and was the second-largest

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French cereal crop ratings fall sharply after dry, cold spell

By Reuters May 12, 2021

The condition of French wheat and barley declined sharply in the week to April 26, data from farm office FranceAgriMer showed on Friday, suggesting a growing impact from dry, cold weather this month. Most crops nonetheless remained in good shape and above year-earlier levels, the data showed. A dry spring so far in much of

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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

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