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CBOT, MGEX wheat mostly lower on the week

By Phil Franz-Warkentin August 10, 2012

The canola market saw another week of ups and downs during the period ended Aug. 3, but managed to finish on the plus side overall. U.S. weather concerns and uncertainty over the size of the canola crop itself provided underlying support. With early harvest operations expected to pick up steam over the next few weeks,

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Hot weather is rapidly advancing crops

August 10, 2012

Weekly Provincial Summary Harvesting of the earliest-seeded spring wheat and barley fields has started and preliminary yields are average to above average. Swathing of canola and oat crops continue across Manitoba, as does the winter wheat harvest. Aster yellows is evident in many canola and flax fields, with a range of severity. Higher-than-normal levels of root rot

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Corn and soybean prices rally to a record high

By David Drozd August 10, 2012

For the first time in history, corn reached $8 per bushel on the nearby futures chart and soybean prices posted a new historical high of $17.77-3/4 per bushel on July 20, 2012. This exceeded the previous high of $16.63 in July 2008. There are countless headlines depicting the “Drought of 2012” as the worst the

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Canola prices slide as harvest begins

By Dwayne Klassen August 10, 2012

Weather issues continued to dominate the price patterns experienced by the oilseed markets located on the ICE Canada platform and the Chicago Board of Trade during the week ended July 27. The price movement in both resembled that of a roller-coaster with the up-and-down movement far from being over. ICE canola futures lost $36 to

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Scout now for blackleg to prevent future infections

By Allan Dawson August 10, 2012

Manitoba canola growers are being urged to check their fields for blackleg infections. Two severely infected fields were discovered recently in the province, even though the varieties were rated as blackleg resistant. “It’s the worst blackleg I have ever seen and I’ve been looking at blackleg in canola since the late ’90s,” Anastasia Kubinec Manitoba

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CWB monopoly ends,open market begins

By Allan Dawson August 10, 2012

As the fluffy, golden-awned heads of barley flowed seamlessly into Ron Sabourin’s combine last week, he was more focused on getting this year’s crop in the bin than he was with the dawn of a new marketing era in Western Canada. Sabourin started pricing out this year’s wheat last December and doesn’t plan to use

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KAP on board with N.D. fertilizer plant project

By Daniel Winters July 30, 2012

Keystone Agricultural Producers is joining the North Dakota Corn Growers Association’s bid to build a farmer-owned nitrogen fertilizer plant. With a feasibility study already completed, and sites in eastern North Dakota being examined for the $1.5-billion plant, the project is moving towards the business-planning stages. Following consultations with commodity groups with the organization, KAP has

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Hot U.S. temperatures make for hot markets

By Dwayne Klassen July 30, 2012

Canola futures on the ICE Canada platform continued their upward trek during the week ended July 20 with the weather concerns in the U.S. Soybean Belt providing much of the price strength. The gains in canola ranged from $20 to $24 per tonne. The new long-range weather outlooks (as of July 20) for the main

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Nebraska irrigators cut off

By Karl Plume July 30, 2012

Reuters / More than 1,100 farmers in Nebraska have been ordered by the state’s Department of Natural Resources to halt irrigation of their crops because the rivers from which they draw water have dropped due to a worsening drought. The orders come as the central United States is enduring the worst drought since 1956, which

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Winter wheat harvest kicks into high gear

July 30, 2012

Weekly Provincial Summary Winter wheat harvest continues. Yields are ranging from 50 to 100 bushels per acre with good test weights, low levels of fusarium-damaged kernels and protein levels ranging from eight to 13 per cent. Swathing of the earliest-seeded spring wheat, barley and canola fields has started. Symptoms of heat and moisture stress, including

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CBOT, MGEX wheat mostly lower on the week

Hot weather is rapidly advancing crops

Corn and soybean prices rally to a record high

Canola prices slide as harvest begins

Scout now for blackleg to prevent future infections

CWB monopoly ends,open market begins

KAP on board with N.D. fertilizer plant project

Hot U.S. temperatures make for hot markets

Nebraska irrigators cut off

Winter wheat harvest kicks into high gear

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