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A double rainbow over a Manitoba soybean field. (ImagineGolf/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on fund-driven buying

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures firmed modestly on Wednesday in largely technical trade along with fund-driven buying and strength in allied soymeal futures, analysts said. Corn futures declined and wheat fell on technical selling. Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) November soybean futures settled up one cent at $8.85-3/4 per bushel but stayed below
Corn west of Mitchell, Man. on Oct. 17, 2018. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Weather

Ready, set go! Harvest reprieve hits Prairies

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CNS Canada — Prairie farmers struggling to get crops off fields under wet, cold conditions are about to get a reprieve — if they haven’t seen warmer weather already in their area. Natalie Hasell, a weather preparedness meteorologist for Environment Canada in Winnipeg, said most regions of British Columbia, Alberta, and southern and central Saskatchewan
Crops

World crop briefs: Black Sea’s oilseed yields seen larger

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CNS Canada — The Black Sea region’s oilseed crop for 2018-19 is estimated 160,000 tonnes higher, at 43.36 million tonnes, according to the latest estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In its October estimates, USDA estimated Ukraine rapeseed production would come in at 100,000 tonnes more than previous estimates to 2.7 million tonnes. Turkey’s
Increasing resistance to chemicals including glyphosate complicates the problem of controlling kochia.
Crops

Kochia and salinity: a battle on two fronts

One strategy might be to treat saline patches like a lawn, and mow them before the kochia sets seed


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Producers may be looking for a way to beat back kochia, but what does that mean for the salinity problems lurking in the soil? Saline patches were common this year after a second season of below-average moisture. Read more: The year of the tumbleweed “The fluctuations in soil moisture are very linked to the soil
The Calgary Telus Convention Centre, north building. (Calgary-convention.com)
Crops, Markets

Farm Forum Event under new management

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The company behind Canada’s two biggest outdoor farm shows is expanding to the great indoors as the new operator of another well known Canadian farm industry event. Glacier FarmMedia announced Monday it has acquired and will assume management of the Farm Forum Event, an annual professional development event for farmers, starting with its 20th anniversary
The Thompsons facility at Hensall, Ont., about 50 km north of London. (ThompsonsLimited.com)
Crops, Markets

Grain firms Andersons, Lansing to merge

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The two U.S. grain firms that jointly own Ontario grain handler and processor Thompsons Ltd. are taking their relationship to the next level. Ohio-based grain handling and processing firm The Andersons, Inc. announced Monday it has signed a deal with Lansing Trade Group (LTG) for the remaining 67.5 per cent of LTG it doesn’t already

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