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Cereals, Crops

Heritage wheat more rust resistant than modern ones

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Walk with Gary Martens down a row of test plots the length of a football field and you’re walking backwards in time through the history of wheat in Western Canada. Start with the latest varieties: Carberry (introduced in 2009) and Waskada (2007). A little farther down you meet Glenlea (1972) and Manitou (1965). Still farther
Cereals, Crops

Improved CWB Delivery Programs Coming

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“Farmers will have to look at the whole package to see if that’s what they want.” – MATT KJARSGAARD Enhancements are coming to Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) grain delivery programs in the new crop year, officials say. They include increased volumes of grain that can be delivered through GrainFlo, as well as storage payments for
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Weather Problems Dominate Market Movement

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For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca. ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ending July 16, surpassing technical resistance on the way up. The weather and production uncertainty that has been the story over the past couple of months remained the primary supportive
Cereals, Crops

CWRW Varieties Reclassified

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The Canadian Grain Commission has announced that effective August 1, 2013, the following wheat varieties will be moved from the Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) class to the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) class: CDC Kestrel, CDC Clair, CDC Harrier, CDC Falcon, and CDC Raptor. “By reclassifying these varieties, we are making sure that the
Cereals, Crops

Winter Wheat Research Financed

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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) is providing just over $1.25 million to Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC), three Prairie province winter wheat producer commissions and its funding partners to increase winter wheat acres across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. “Improved varieties and good management by producers have made winter wheat one of the most profitable crops over
Cereals, Crops, Forages

Crop Report – for Jul. 22, 2010

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SOUTHWEST REGION Spotty rainshowers over the past week resulted in varying amounts of precipitation. Earlyseeded cereal crops are filling and several areas are reporting high levels of leaf disease. Laterseeded cereal crops are tillering and starting to head. Earlyseeded canola is podding and has handled the excess moisture well. Later-seeded canola is in full flower
Cereals, Crops

CGC Enforcing Licensing

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Some licensed grain dealers will become licensed primary elevators in the new crop year. The changes follow a Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) review of its licensed grain dealers, CGC spokesman Remi Gosselin said. Licensed primary elevators buy grain from farmers, take delivery of it and store it. Licensed grain dealers buy grain from farmers, but
Cereals, Crops, Livestock, News

Excess Moisture Application Forms In The Mail

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Application forms for the aid promised by federal and provincial ministers earlier this month are in the mail and farmers can expect payments in late August or early September, officials say. Farmers have until Aug. 3 to apply for the 2010 Canada-Manitoba Excess Moisture Assistance Program (CMEMAP), which pays $30 for each acre of annual
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Farm Aid Highly Political

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Why should governments top up crop insurance coverage in a year where there’s a widespread disaster when they wouldn’t likely have the same response if the problem was regional? Amazingly, last week’s annual meeting of federal and provincial agriculture ministers concluded with a detailed program announcement for flooded Prairie farmland. Rarely do governments act so

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