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Any area lost to canola will likely go into spring wheat, according to pre-report forecasts. Photo: iStock

Less canola, more wheat expected from Statistics Canada

Winnipeg | MarketsFarm – Canadian farmers will likely seed less canola and more spring wheat in 2019, but the extent of any acreage shifts remains to be seen as market participants await Statistics Canada’s first seeded area estimates of the year on April 24. Canola prices in Western Canada have dropped over the past few

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WTO finds for U.S. on crop tariff dispute with China

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 18, 2019

MarketsFarm — The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled largely in favour of the United States in a trade dispute regarding China’s application of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat, corn and rice. The ruling, issued by the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), stated China did not apply the TRQs on imports of wheat, rice

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U.S. wheats get limited nod for forage use

The varieties are limited to a small region  of British Columbia

By Alexis Stockford March 26, 2019

A British Columbia company has got a bit of breathing room in its efforts to promote forage wheats, but it’s not necessarily setting a precedent. Premier Pacific Seeds successfully argued its case to gain a limited interim registration for four U.S. soft winter wheat cultivars (Yamhill, Madsen, Kaseberg and Brudage) were better suited than any

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Should falling number and DON be grading factors?

Expensive machines would replace visual assessments of sprout and fusarium damage

By Allan Dawson March 26, 2019

Should falling number and deoxynivalenol (DON) be official grain-grading factors? The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) is asking the grain industry for opinions before May 10. Both factors are included now, but through visual proxies — sprout damage for falling number and fusarium-damaged kernels for DON. They aren’t as accurate as machine measurements, but they are

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Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

Registration trials will have to wait for farm-developed organic wheat varieties while changes are made to the proposed trial design

By Alexis Stockford March 25, 2019

The University of Manitoba’s farm-based organic wheat-breeding program is ready to start towards commercialization, but the body responsible for recommending new genetics to the CFIA says there is still work to be done. Jamie Larsen, chair of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT), says a proposed trial plan submitted this year

Manitoba growers haven’t yet voted with their acres when it comes to accepting corn as a major crop in the province,  despite some modest growth.

Cereals, Crops

Corn’s future should be bright in Manitoba

The results of five years of corn agronomy research show it to be among the most profitable crops but farmers aren’t yet adopting it widely

By Don Norman March 11, 2019

Corn has seen some moderate acreage gains recently as a crop for farmers in Manitoba, and for good reason. The yield per acre seeded has grown exponentially over the past 20 years. But that growth in acres hasn’t been exponential as well. It’s been more in the realm of the slow and steady. For example,

Jill McDonald of SaskBarley makes the case for better barley variety acceptance during the Prairie Grain Development Committee meeting in Saskatoon Feb. 27.

Cereals, News

Barley varieties moribund

New genetics are needed in the field

By Alexis Stockford March 8, 2019

Malt buyers have been slow to accept new varieties and that’s starting to have a big effect on growers. Yields are lagging, profits are falling and other crops are starting to look more attractive to growers. Jill McDonald of SaskBarley wants to see that change. She says varieties need to keep up with the times,

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Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices on the rise

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 7, 2019

MarketsFarm — Feed grain prices have been on the upswing recently, according to Nelson Neumann of Agfinity at Stony Plain, Alta. “We saw them at the end of last week, the beginning of this week, really jump up. Guys were scrambling to get stuff in before road bans,” he said. He attributed the increased prices

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Cereal royalty discussions dominate CropConnect AGMs

There’s increasing agreement among farmers to invest more in variety development, but how?

By Allan Dawson March 1, 2019

There’s still no consensus among western grain farmers on how they can contribute more money to boost cereal variety development, but Fred Greig says there’s progress on the contentious issue. “I think there’s a will to move along the path and to protect our interests and protect our rights and do it right,” the Reston

Wheat and Canadian Money or dollar or currency in double exposure shot, concept for earnings or spend in Agriculture

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KAP carefully considering seed ‘value creation’

KAP doesn’t have a set plan, but it has set out its principles on the issue

By Allan Dawson February 14, 2019

The Keystone Agricultural Producer’s (KAP) policy on how farmers should fund new cereal variety development remains a work in progress. The seed industry has proposed two models — trailing and end point royalties. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has been consulting farmers about them. But KAP delegates attending their 35th annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb.

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Cereals

Less canola, more wheat expected from Statistics Canada

WTO finds for U.S. on crop tariff dispute with China

U.S. wheats get limited nod for forage use

Should falling number and DON be grading factors?

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

Corn’s future should be bright in Manitoba

Barley varieties moribund

Feed weekly outlook: Prairie prices on the rise

Cereal royalty discussions dominate CropConnect AGMs

KAP carefully considering seed ‘value creation’

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