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How a radish cover crop interseeded into soybeans planted in August looked on Sept. 27, 2019.
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Calling all cover croppers!

A survey is looking for hard numbers on the practice and what it looks like on Prairie farms

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The University of Manitoba is looking for numbers on local cover crop use, and it’s turning to producers to get them. Yvonne Lawley of the University of Manitoba is spearheading the Prairie Cover Crop Survey, which hopes to gauge how widely and in what form cover crops are taking root across the Prairies. The survey
Rail lines en route to the Port of Searsport, Maine. (BWFolsom/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

CP to buy direct line through Quebec, Maine

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Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is set to buy its way back into Quebec’s Eastern Townships and through to eastern ports with a deal for Central Maine and Quebec Railway (CMQ). Calgary-based CP announced Wednesday it has a deal with CMQ’s owner, Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors (FTAI), to buy the railway’s 774 km of rail
File photo of propane tanks. (Joe_Potato/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Weather

Union says propane shortfalls may be CN’s own making

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Propane shortages for grain dryers and heating fuel in the wake of a strike by Canadian National Railway (CN) conductors and yard workers appear to be “largely manufactured” by the railway, according to the union for the striking workers. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC-CTY), which represents over 3,000 CN staff in Canada who walked
CBOT January 2020 soybeans with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans slide, nearing support at US$9

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell to their lowest in almost two months on Thursday as uncertainty about progress in U.S.-China trade talks overshadowed support from stronger-than-expected weekly U.S. export sales, analysts said. Wheat futures also declined, backing down from a two-week high, but corn futures rose on signs of improving export and
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Weather

Propane shortage looms as CN strike hits third day

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Winnipeg/Ottawa | Reuters — Shippers scrambled to shift freight onto trucks on Thursday as a strike at Canada’s biggest railroad, Canadian National Railway, hit its third day, leaving the critical fuel propane and other goods stranded. Some 3,200 unionized employees, including conductors and yard workers, hit picket lines on Tuesday in the biggest such action
Norbert Beaujot’s DOT system, shown here in Woodstock, Ont. in September 2019, has a new majority owner in South Dakota-based Raven Industries. (Farmtario photo by John Greig)
Crops

U.S. manufacturer buys control of DOT Technology

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A made-in-Canada self-guiding farm equipment platform has sold control of itself to one of its U.S. investors. Sioux Falls, S.D. precision agriculture manufacturer Raven Industries announced last week it has closed its deal to buy majority ownership in Regina-based DOT Technology Corp. for an undisclosed sum. DOT said the deal will allow it to “further

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