Cereals & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

Late Spring Dampens Forecast

By Allan Dawson June 18, 2009

“… the milling wheat quality side is very, very tight this year despite some increased carry-in because of the potential for quality damage here.” – BrUcE BUrnETT Unless there’s a miracle, western Canadian farmers will harvest a much smaller crop this year compared to last and the five-year average, according to the Canadian Wheat Board’s

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Canola To Top $500 In 2009-10

By Don Bousquet June 18, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended June 12 lower. Canola was undermined by losses in the Chicago soyoil market and the absence of fresh demand. China has withdrawn from the market

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Crops Hit By June 6 Frost

By Allan Dawson June 11, 2009

“In one field the odd plant was dead and the next quarter over the field was completely dead.” – anastasia KuBinec Frost early June 6 caused another spring flood in Manitoba – of crop insurance claims. Temperatures dipped below zero in many regions during the wee hours of June 6. But the lowest temperatures were

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In Brief… – for Jun. 11, 2009

June 11, 2009

Frosty June: Frost has damaged newly emerged canola on the western Prairies, adding to a long list of spring weather woes. The only factor mitigating damage from frost June 2 is that crops have been slow to emerge due to cool weather, said Bruce Burnett, director of weather and market analysis for the Canadian Wheat

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

The Great Land Grab

By Laura Rance-Unger June 11, 2009

After the cold, wet and now frosty spring we’re experiencing, if foreign buyers came along and approached the federal government about buying up farmland on the Canadian Prairies, there’s a few farmers who’d be inclined to say, “Take it. Please.” That’s not likely to happen, at least not in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, because of legislation

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Rushing Madly Off In All Directions

By Paul Beingessner June 11, 2009

When mad cow disease hit Western Canada in May, 2003, farmers got a lesson in basic economics. The lesson wasn’t so much that prices went down in Canada. Take away the market for something like 50 per cent of the cattle produced in Canada, and prices will take a gut-wrenching tumble. That was a given.

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Weather Changing Market Outlooks

By Don Bousquet June 11, 2009

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended June 5 higher, with the market supported by gains in the U. S. markets. Canola rallied as cold conditions in Western Canada, slow farmer selling

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Canada Meat, Grain Sectors Eye EU Trade

By Rod Nickel June 11, 2009

Canada’s agriculture industry is eyeing free trade talks with the European Union as a rare chance to open a big high-income market. But for the beef sector, a major production shift may also be at stake. The Canadian beef industry has taken hits in recent years from low prices and prohibitive U. S. food-labelling laws,

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Dow AgroSciences Expanding Research Into Wheat

June 11, 2009

Dow AgroSciences, a division of Dow Chemical Co. said June 2 it was expanding its crop research work into wheat, a key global food crop. The Dow unit will collaborate with wheat-breeding firm World Wide Wheat LLC of Phoenix, Ariz., to develop and commercialize advanced germplasm and genetic traits in wheat. Dow AgroSciences CEO Jermone

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Crop Report – for Jun. 11, 2009

By Manitoba Agriculture June 11, 2009

SOUTHWEST REGION Dry weather conditions over the past week allowed most producers to complete seeding. Early-seeded cereal crops are in the three-to four-leaf stage. Canola and flax are emerging with some of the early-seeded canola in the one-to two-leaf stage. Winter wheat and fall rye are progressing with some fall rye starting to head. Some

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Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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