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

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


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

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

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


Farmers Reap $35 Million In Transportation Savings

STAFF / The Canadian Wheat Board says it saved western Canadian farmers $35 million in grain transportation during the previous crop year, through programs designed to reduce producers costs for moving their grain to port. Farmers bear all the costs of grain transportation, so the CWB is constantly looking for ways to keep those costs

Harvest Smoothly Heads Into The Home Stretch

crop report Southwest Region Little to no rainfall in the southwest region brought harvest to 95 per cent complete; only a few fields of late-seeded canola and cereal crops remain. Most canola that remains unharvested has high green seed counts due to the frost. Producers are waiting for a rain to help reduce green seed


Drought Keeps Stranglehold On U.S. Plains Wheat

Drought cont inues to plague the U.S. Plains hard red winter wheat region and there is no relief in sight from the dryness until at least October, an agricultural meteorologist said Sept. 23. It remains quite dry and it will remain that way for at least three weeks, on into October, said Don Keeney, meteorologist

Get Big, Or Get Small

In 1999, the Peters family reached a crossroads, with Walter and Erna eyeing retirement, and son Marlin and wife Deb looking to make a start in farming. But taking over a 1,000-acre grain farm wasn t an appealing prospect. We were kind of at the point where the equipment was aging, and something needed to


Floods Damage 70 Per Cent Of Crops In Southern Pakistan

Heavy rains and floods have destroyed or damaged 73 per cent of crops and 67 per cent of the food stocks in southern Pakistan s Sindh province, the United Nations food agency said Sept. 23 urging donors to step up support. Millions of people are destitute and face an uncertain and food-insecure future, the UN

Keep Testing Suspicious Cattle For Bse, Cfia Urges

Cattle producers shouldn t let their guard down when it comes to testing for BSE just because the number of confirmed cases has dropped to less than a trickle, says a senior veterinarian at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Bachir Djillali, staff veterinarian for disease control, says it s still possible that a few more