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Nufarm’s new soybean herbicide

By Allan Dawson April 8, 2012

Manitoba soybean growers have a new herbicide option. Nufarm’s Valtera, with the active ingredient flumioxazin, controls a number of broadleaf weeds early, while suppressing annual grasses such as green foxtail, says Myles Robinson, the firm’s Manitoba sales manager. “Soybeans do not like competition” and that’s why early weed control can pay off in higher yields,

Cereals, Crops, News

CGC guarantees Canadian grain quality worldwide

By Ron Friesen April 7, 2012

The baker is already planning his production and quality-control program for months ahead, based on grain from halfway around the world he has never laid eyes on, much less inspected. But he isn’t worried. He knows he will almost certainly get exactly the right kind of wheat with the precise specifications he requested. He also

Crops, News

Marking a century of service

April 7, 2012

To survive a century is quite an achievement. But our longevity is not what is noteworthy, as you will see as you read about our past. No, our true achievement is our role in the growth of the Canadian grain industry. For 100 years, we have collaborated with Canadian grain producers and other members of

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

CWB believes it has the inside edge on Japan sales

By Allan Dawson April 7, 2012

CWB officials told farmers meeting here it has the inside track on the lucrative Japanese market for Canadian milling wheat. “I’ve just come from Japan this week and we are working very hard with the Japanese to try to have the CWB in a very prominent place with regard to supplying the Japanese industry with

Livestock, News

MLMMI calls for “commercially available” solid manure solutions

By Daniel Winters April 7, 2012

With a November 2013 deadline looming for compliance with the province’s manure phosphorus regulations, the Manitoba Livestock Manure Management Initiative (MLMMI) continues to look for solutions. In a recent call for proposals, the organization invited applications for projects examining commercially available technologies for storing, distributing, and making value-added use of the phosphorus-rich solid component of

News

Expert says agriculture needs a rethink

By Shannon VanRaes April 7, 2012

Climate change is real and is one of the issues that will force farmers to change their practices, according to the head of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. Many people are in denial about climate change, Craig Pearson told attendees at the University of Manitoba annual Bendelow Lecture in an address entitled “Changing Agriculture to

Cereals, Dairy cattle, Opinion

Moving beyond supply management

By Sylvain Charlebois April 7, 2012

Now that we have some clarity on the economic future of the Canadian Wheat Board, attention is slowly turning toward the issue of supply management, which has arguably served our agricultural economy well for decades. Economically speaking, these sectors have been unwavering, and consumers have long benefited from stable retail prices for these products. However,

Crops, News, Oilseeds, Pulses

Edible bean acreage set to rise, but only modest increase expected

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 7, 2012

Edible bean supplies are very tight in southern Manitoba and although higher acreage is anticipated, better prices for other commodities will limit the increase, says bean merchant Tina Scott. Farmers in the province grew only 51,000 acres of edible beans in 2011, after planting a more average 146,000 the previous year. “Last year was an

Cereals, Opinion

Foreign traders vying for piece of North American grain-handling sector

By Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek April 7, 2012

The urgency to operate in the United States or Canada has grown because of increasing global demand for crops

For decades, the world’s leading grain traders like Cargill and Bunge enjoyed an unparalleled advantage: their smaller North American competitors lacked the flexibility and diversity of a global operation, and their foreign rivals lacked access to the biggest and most stable exporters in the world. That’s about to change. Large U.S. and Canadian grain companies

Beef cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets

Values hold strong for replacement heifers, bulls

By Dwayne Klassen April 7, 2012

Cattle marketings in Manitoba during the week ended March 30 generally held the levels at which they’ve run over the past couple of weeks, though weather issues in certain parts of the province resulted in a slowdown in sales. “With the frost out of the ground earlier than normal, the excess moisture made a few

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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