Crops & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator

Heatwave ravages European fields, sending wheat prices soaring

By GFM Network News, Michael Hogan, Polina Devitt, Sybille De La Hamaide August 2, 2018

Paris | Moscow | Hamburg | Reuters – Searing heat has devastated wheat fields across northern Europe while a combination of dry conditions and extreme rain in the Black Sea have hit output estimates, with prices soaring on fears of further crop damage. Evidence of serious harm to crops is growing as harvesting heads north in

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as U.S.-China trade war fears intensify

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek August 1, 2018

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. soybean futures fell on Wednesday as worries that U.S. President Donald Trump could propose additional tariffs on Chinese goods knocked prices down from a six-week high touched a session earlier. Wheat futures reached a one-year high on worries about drought reducing harvests in nations that are major exporters. The losses

The Flax Council of Canada closed its office on Jan. 31, 2018. Photo: File

Crops

Flax Council of Canada joins up with Canola Council

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team August 1, 2018

Winnipeg | CNS Canada – The Flax Council of Canada has announced a new operating structure; restructuring its board and joining forces with the Canola Council of Canada. The move comes six months after the council shuttered its Winnipeg office and reduced its services. “It’s clear that Canadian flax has tremendous potential, both on the

Cereals, Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn and soy markets awaiting USDA report

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News August 1, 2018

CNS Canada – After a week where corn, soybean and wheat contracts climbed on the Chicago Board of Trade, traders are now awaiting the latest supply and demand report from the United States Department of Agriculture. “With the crop report (for) August, which at least over the last five years has historically leaned more bearish

Kristen MacMillan, the University of Manitoba’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences’ agronomist in residence, talks to students in the field  about how a soybean plot trial is developing.

Crops, Oilseeds

Putting class theory into soybean field practice

The University of Manitoba has introduced a new hands-on field course designed to introduce research principles to help second-year diploma students apply learning from their first year of study

By Lorraine Stevenson July 31, 2018

Students studying agriculture at University of Manitoba took their studies outside this summer as participants in a first-ever course being offered those in their second year of the agriculture diploma program. The field class is instructed by pulse crops expert and U of M’s faculty of agricultural and food sciences’ agronomist in residence Kristen MacMillan,

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week peak on hopes for China trade talks

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume July 31, 2018

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. soybean futures surged 3 percent on Tuesday to 1-1/2-month highs on hopes that the United States and China would restart stalled talks to avert a damaging trade war that has already slowed U.S. soy exports. Corn and wheat climbed along with soybeans, drawing additional support from concerns about weather-reduced harvests

Cereals, Markets

Wheat futures climbing higher

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin July 31, 2018

CNS Canada – North American wheat prices have rallied sharply over the past few weeks and could have more room to go, especially for higher quality and higher protein wheat. After trending lower for most of June and into early July, the Minneapolis December spring wheat contract settled at US$6.2275 per bushel on July 31,

Pulse prices are likely to come under pressure due to large existing supplies. Photo: Thinkstock

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse prices feel pressure from rising ending stocks

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News July 31, 2018

CNS Canada – Increasing pulse ending stocks are going to continue to play into pulse crop prices in Canada, according to the latest update from Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) ag economics team. “We’re still expected to see ending stocks increasing. So as we continue to see that ending stocks increase, that stock-to-use-ratio that we’d see

Crop Report, Crops, Weather

Rain needed to sustain crops, hay yields below normal

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for July 30

By Manitoba Agriculture July 30, 2018

Southwest Region Little to no rain over the past week in most of the southwest region. Areas close to Riding Mountain National Park such as Eden and Wasagaming received 15 to 26 mm. In general, most crops are looking good but require rain. Hot and dry weather is turning crops quickly. Winter wheat and fall

MPSG production specialist Laryssa Stevenson talks about the benefits and risks to a rescue nitrogen application in soybeans during the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers SMART Day event in Melita July 17.

Crops, Local news

Poor nitrogen uptake has soybean growers pondering rescue application

Lack of moisture has also meant lack of nodules and poor nitrogen fixation for some soybean fields, leading some to consider a mid-season fertilizer pass

By Alexis Stockford July 30, 2018

More soybean fields are trying to shake off the impact of a dry spring on nitrogen uptake this year. Laryssa Stevenson, western production specialist with the Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, told a SMART field day here last week that she has heard of more growers struggling with nitrogen deficiency this summer, which she blames

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola