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Cereals, Opinion

Can Ritz Deliver On His Promises?

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The federal government has promised western Canadian farmers they can have the Canadian Wheat Board and an open market too. Most farmers assume the only major change to the wheat board will be the loss of its monopoly over the sale of western Canadian wheat and barley destined for export or domestic human consumption. The
Cereals, Livestock, Opinion

OUR HISTORY: October 5, 1961

Cattle marketings up& Drought was responsible for a sharp increase in the number of grazing livestock delivered to the Western Livestock Co-operative (Western) Ltd. Crop estimates revised& The wheat crop for all of Canada was estimated at 260 million bushels. Egg price support hiked& In the pre-supply management era, farmers were receiving federal deficiency payments
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Highs Likely In For Canola Market As Harvest Ends

column Phil-Franz Warkentin CNSC The ICE Futures Canada canola market saw some wide price swings during the week ended Sept. 30, finishing with declines after testing downside resistance on a number of occasions. On the whole, the bearish factors in the market outweigh anything supportive, but a short-covering bounce does remain a possibility going forward.
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Big U.S. Wheat, Corn Stocks Send Prices Tumbling Anew

washington/reuters U.S. corn and wheat stocks were much larger than expected at the end of the summer, providing a larger buffer against this year s reduced harvest and driving some grain prices to their lowest levels this year. In a sign that near-record grain prices curbed demand far more than analysts had anticipated, inventories of
Cereals, Crops

Kane:

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Harvest and Glenn placed second and third For the third year in a row Kane is the wheat with the most acreage in Manitoba, followed by Harvest and Glenn, according to the Canadian Wheat Board s 2011 crop variety survey. Kane, a Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat, accounted for 23.5 per cent of Manitoba
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Dry Weather Remains A Concern

REUTERS / The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its weekly crop progress report on Sept. 26 said 15 per cent of the U.S. corn crop had been harvested, up from 10 per cent a week ago and slightly behind the five-year average of 16 per cent. Sixty-three per cent of the corn crop was mature
Crops

Award Recipient Pioneered Pesticide Container Recycling

STAFF / Cam Davreux, vice-president of stewardship for CropLife Canada from 1989 until his retirement in June 2011, was honoured for his commitment to environmental stewardship at the Conference on Canadian Stewardship in Halifax Sept. 20. Davreux was the push behind three stewardship programs in the Canadian crop protection industry that have gone on to
Crops

Chasing High Corn Prices, U.S. Farmers Skip Rotations

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Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois. Farmers who eschew crop rotations that help to replenish the soil with nutrients take a risk that yields will decline. But corn prices soared to a record earlier this year, making so-called corn-on-corn
Crops

China Set For Bountiful Harvest

in brief reuters / Bad weather in parts of China s corn-growing province of Jilin may have spoiled some farmers hopes of a rich harvest, but expanded acreage means agronomists are sticking to forecasts that China will reap one of its best harvests in years. Farmers across the country have planted far more acres of

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