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ICE November 2019 canola with 20- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

ICE weekly outlook: Farmers advised to price some new crop

ICE Futures canola contracts held within a narrow trading range during the week ended Wednesday, as participants await fresh market-moving news. While the sideways trading range could persist in the near term, an analyst said new-crop futures were at decent levels and encouraged farmers to do some forward pricing. The November canola contract settled Wednesday

Crops, Local news

Roquette gives pea quality checklist

Environmental Farm Plans, cross-contamination worries and MRL conflicts are among the highlights of Roquette’s pea quality requirements

By Alexis Stockford February 6, 2019

Farmers wanting to feed Roquette’s soon-to-be- commissioned pea protein plant in Portage la Prairie will face a few stiff quality stipulations. John Buch, risk and grain department manager with Roquette, gave an overview of the company’s requirements during Ag Days 2019, including grade, traceability and MRL conflicts that will preclude growers from using certain chemistries

Greg Bartley, Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers on-farm specialist, gives this year’s Ag Days audience tips on developing their own research on farm.

Crops, Local news

Farmers urged to add on-farm research

Farmers are already expected to wear many hats, from mechanic to grower, but it may be time to add ‘researcher’ to that list, according to one Ag Days speaker

By Alexis Stockford February 6, 2019

Greg Bartley wants more producers to take research into their own hands. An on-farm specialist with the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, Bartley has been working with farmers to develop research trials in the commercial field, rather than the research plot. That research may become a producer’s greatest tool in measuring the actual value of

Crops, News

Potato growers battling storage woes

A wet and cold fall saw some potatoes dug and stored at less than optimal conditions

By Alexis Stockford February 6, 2019

A tough harvest is translating into a challenging storage season for Manitoba potato growers. It’s especially frustrating because growers were looking at a bumper crop, forecast to be the third largest harvest on record. But they were denied that by rains that delayed harvest and hard frosts that hit in mid-October causing ground to freeze

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Nothing new in India

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 6, 2019

Very little has changed for Canadian pulses in terms of exports to India, according to an analyst. Meanwhile, Canadian stocks of dry field peas and lentils are still relatively large, according to Statistics Canada. India in 2017 imposed import duties to protect its domestic pulse industry and is rumoured to be solidifying those duties, according

Aerial view of a rapeseed field in Germany. (Cinoby/E+/Getty Images)

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French, German farmers destroy crops after GMOs found in Bayer seeds

By GFM Network News, Sybille De La Hamaide February 6, 2019

Paris | Reuters — Bayer said on Wednesday that farmers in France and Germany were digging up thousands of hectares of rapeseed fields after traces of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) banned for cultivation were found in seeds sold by the company. GMO crops are widely grown across the world, but they remain controversial in Europe,

CBOT April 2019 soybeans with 20- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy edges higher after China sales

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume February 6, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures edged higher on Wednesday as the government confirmed more soy purchases by China, but the market remained largely static as traders waited for a raft of U.S. crop data due on Friday, some of it delayed by the government shutdown. Corn futures eased for the first time in

The arrest in Vancouver of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, shown here with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an investment forum in Moscow in October 2014, has further dampened hopes of revived commodity flows between the U.S. and China. (File photo: Reuters/Alexander Bibik)

Crops, Markets

Canadian canola runs into Chinese delays after Huawei arrest

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News, Hallie Gu, Rod Nickel February 5, 2019

Winnipeg/Beijing | Reuters — A political dispute between China and Canada over the arrest of a Huawei executive is slowing canola shipments through Chinese ports and causing some importers to hesitate to buy from their biggest supplier, according to interviews with a dozen traders. Since Canadian authorities arrested Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in

Crops, Markets

StatsCan canola stocks numbers point to big carryout

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm February 5, 2019

As two analysts looked at Statistics Canada’s latest report on total stocks of principal field crops, they immediately zeroed in on canola. Statistics Canada’s report, released Tuesday, shows canola stocks as of Dec. 31, 2018 were at 14.553 million tonnes, up 4.9 per cent from year-earlier levels, “The numbers are sort of in line with

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CP grain train ‘began to move on its own’ before fatal derailment

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 5, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — A Canadian Pacific Railway train was parked for a change of crew when it unexpectedly rolled down a steep embankment and derailed in British Columbia’s Rocky Mountains on Monday, killing three crew members, a transport regulator said. The train, hauling 112 cars of grain, was parked for two hours at the

Daily Network News

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Crops

ICE weekly outlook: Farmers advised to price some new crop

Roquette gives pea quality checklist

Farmers urged to add on-farm research

Potato growers battling storage woes

Pulse weekly outlook: Nothing new in India

French, German farmers destroy crops after GMOs found in Bayer seeds

U.S. grains: Soy edges higher after China sales

Canadian canola runs into Chinese delays after Huawei arrest

StatsCan canola stocks numbers point to big carryout

CP grain train ‘began to move on its own’ before fatal derailment

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