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Canada’s seed rule modernization is finally seeing the end of the tunnel, but not everyone in agriculture is convinced about the changes or that the timeline is good enough.
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Five years and counting: Inside Canada’s seed regulatory overhaul
Canada’s seed rule modernization is finally seeing the end of the tunnel, but not everyone’s convinced about the changes or that the timeline is good enough, given agriculture’s quick-changing landscape
India slaps 30 per cent import duty on yellow peas
India has imposed a 30 per cent duty on yellow pea imports with a bill of lading date on or after Nov. 1, 2025.
Meet the new yield-boosting wheat varieties being developed in Manitoba
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Brandon is working on three new wheat varieties that beat out controls by up to 15 per cent on yield
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Brandon is working on three new wheat varieties that beat out controls by up to 15 per cent on yield.
The U.S. corn crop could be the biggest ever. That’s terrible news for America’s farmers.
The USDA predicts a record corn crop for U.S. farmers, who question the agency’s accuracy amidst high debt and low crop prices.
Made-in-Manitoba sunflower hybrid heads to market
Manitoba Crop Alliance lands U.S. co-operative CHS to commercialize the first confection sunflower variety to come out of their homegrown breeding program
Manitoba’s confection sunflower growers will have a new seed option next spring that was developed specifically for perform in the province. The pending commercialization of one of their hybrids is a milestone for the Manitoba Crop Alliance (MCA), the commodity group that represents the province’s sunflower growers. The organization has invested in its own sunflower
Sigurdson applauds Alberta farmers
With Alberta’s harvest virtually wrapped up for 2025, provincial Agriculture Minister RJ Sigurdson offered the government’s congratulations to the province’s farmers.
Most of Manitoba harvest wraps up for 2025
Manitoba Agriculture issued its final crop report of 2025, showing the overall provincewide harvest at 97 per cent complete as of Oct. 20. Nearly all major crops have finished combining, with 37 per cent of Manitoba’s sunflowers finished, plus 71 per cent of grain corn and small amounts of soybeans and potatoes left to do.
CBOT Weekly: China, shutdown guiding the market
The United States grain and oilseed markets are currently dominated by two factors, said Ryan Ettner, broker with Allendale Inc. in McHenry, Ill. Ettner said those are the absence of a trade deal with China and the ongoing United States government shutdown.
Grain marketing for hard economic times
Manitoba farms face tight profit opportunities this year; what strategies can farmers use to sell their 2025 crop to best financial effect?
Strong harvests in Western Canada clash with low grain prices, trade war-driven market uncertainty and high input costs. What strategies can farmers use to sell their 2025 crop?
Prolonged drought causes unprecedented productivity loss: Study
Colorado State University — Extreme, prolonged drought conditions in grasslands and shrublands would greatly limit the long-term health of crucial ecosystems that cover nearly half the planet, says new research published in the journal Science. “Climate change is bringing more severe and longer-lasting droughts to many locations around the world. Some ecosystems have shown resilience
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