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Cereals, Crops

Considering winter cereals?

2021 variety selection data for winter cereals is now available

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Yield results from the 2021 MCVET (Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team) fall rye and winter wheat testing locations are now available to help producers with variety selection decisions. Data from all locations was not available at the time of publication; more information will be included in Seed Manitoba 2022 in November. Yield, agronomic, and disease-resistance
CBOT December 2021 corn (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and dark green lines). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn, soy, wheat slide on stronger U.S. dollar, export concerns

Market awaits USDA crop forecasts ahead of corn, soy harvests

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn, soybean and wheat futures slipped Tuesday as a stronger dollar, export concerns and early U.S. harvest activity weighed on the complex ahead of the U.S. Agriculture Department’s monthly supply and demand report, due out Friday. Analysts anticipate USDA’s Sept. 10 outlook to increase estimates of U.S. corn and soybean
“We have seen some progression over the last few years towards higher levels. I expect that to continue, but it’s too early to say how much higher that will be.” – John Gavloski.
Crops, News

Crunching the numbers on grasshoppers

For all the attention grasshoppers have got, initial numbers have shown very variable populations

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It’s not hard to find a farmer who had a grasshopper horror story this year — in fact, some of them have made international headlines, in conjunction with Manitoba’s drought — but now it’s time for the annual count. Provincial entomologist John Gavloski is once again gathering numbers on Manitoba’s grasshopper population. Results from the
Canola yields seen down
Crops, News

Canola yields seen down

MCGA online survey says nearly half of respondents put crops in the 15- to 30-bushel range

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Average Manitoba crop yields are expected to be lower this year due to drought, but observers expect canola to be among the hardest hit. Some early polling results from Manitoba Canola Growers Association (MCGA) appear to bear that out. In its Aug. 27 newsletter the MCGA reported that of the 269 farmers who responded to a Twitter
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Crops, Markets

Prairie cash wheat: Spring wheat bids mixed, durum jumps

U.S. December wheat futures down on week

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MarketsFarm — Increased worldwide demand for wheat and precipitation across the Prairies have resulted in mixed spring wheat bids for the week ended Thursday. Scattered showers across wheat-growing areas in Western Canada, as well as the ongoing spring wheat harvest, have brought downward pressure on the markets. The rising Canadian dollar also served to lower
A corn crop near London, Ont. in July 2021. Relatively good yields down east may lead to more Prairie livestock feeders “jumping on the corn bandwagon.” (Farmtario photo by John Greig)
Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Crop estimates show severity of drought

'Corn bandwagon' filling up

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MarketsFarm — Preliminary crop yield estimates released by Statistics Canada on Monday outlined just how severely the drought in Western Canada cut into production. Mike Fleischhauer, general manager for Eagle Commodities at Lethbridge, Alta., was not at all surprised by the numbers. “I think we knew that was happening all along,” he said. “There are
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Crops, Markets, Weather

Thunder Bay reports rare inbound grain shipment

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MarketsFarm — Grain movement at the Port of Thunder Bay included a rare inbound cargo of feed wheat, according to the port’s latest monthly report. A 12,000-tonne shipment of feed wheat was delivered to Richardson’s Current River elevator from the company’s facility in Hamilton, Ont. The wheat was said to be destined for Manitoba feedlots,

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