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U.S. Debt Crisis, Weather Outlook Pressure Crops

By Phil Franz-Warkentin August 4, 2011

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts bounced around during the week ended July 29, the last week of the 2010- 11 crop year, but managed to post small declines overall amid improving weather conditions and global economic uncertainty. On the year, canola futures are up over $220 per tonne from where they were at the close

Country Crossroads, Other livestock

From Ewes To You

By Lorraine Stevenson August 4, 2011

When Ste. Anne sheep producer Solange Dusablon set out to earn farm income selling wool and wool products produced from their flock, she knew she’d need to charge top dollar for hand-spun, hand-knit knitwear to make any money – and that it was highly unlikely anyone would pay hundreds for a pretty sweater. So she

Crops

Search For New Herbicides Continues

By Allan Dawson August 4, 2011

For Len Juras, hunting for new herbicides is a bit like living in one of those country-western “hurtin” songs – minus the twang of course. “The biggest lesson I’ve had to learn is letting go,” the senior research scientist for Dow AgroSciences said here last week. “Over the years I’ve had my heart broken many

Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Aug. 4, 2011

By Manitoba Agriculture August 4, 2011

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall over the past week varied from 10 to 25 mm, with most happening in isolated events. Growing conditions over the past week have aided in crop development. Cereal crops are heading with early-planted crops starting to turn. Most canola crops are going out of bloom with some of the later crops in

Cereals, Crops

CGC Announces Grain Variety Deregistrations

By Commodity News Service August 4, 2011

The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) has announced upcoming grain variety deregistrations. Wheat var iet ies belonging to the Canada Prairie Spring White (CPSW), the Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS), and flaxseed varieties, will be deregistered, said a news release July 15. The CGC advises that wheat varieties Snowwhite 475 and Snowwhi te 476 belonging to

Cereals, Crops

First Organically Bred Wheat And Oat Lines Enter Co-Op Trials

By Lorraine Stevenson July 28, 2011

Oat and wheat varieties bred specifically to perform well in the low-input conditions of an organic production system are one step closer to becoming a commercial reality. Two lines of wheat and two lines of oats developed by the Organic Wheat Breeding Program, based at Carman are now entering first-year co-op testing trials towards evaluation

Cereals, Crops

Black Soil Field’s Yield Returns To Average After Drought

By Melissa Akin July 28, 2011

After enduring a season as hard as any in living memory, the farmers who cultivate these Black Soils wheat fields say their yields should recover to normal after massive drought losses last year. The winter wheat, to be harvested in July, was planted in nearly dry soil but the rains came just in time, said

Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Jul. 28, 2011

By Manitoba Agriculture July 28, 2011

SOUTHWEST REGION Rainfall over the past week varied from 10 to 50 mm. Good growing conditions helped crops advance and several crops have improved over the past week. Cereal crops in the Southwest Region are in the heading stage and late-seeded crops have tillered and are going into the flag-leaf stage. Late-seeded greenfeed is in

Crops

Bioeconomy Gives Agriculture New Lease On Life

By Rob Swystun July 28, 2011

The emerging bioeconomy is rewriting agriculture’s contract with society, a senior official with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives told bioengineers meeting in Winnipeg recently. Daryl Domitruk, director of the Agri-Food Innovation and Adaptation Knowledge Centre for Manitoba Agriculture and Rural Initiatives, said agriculture is often portrayed as “the bad guy” when it comes to

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Ugly Perennials Getting Admiring Looks

By Laura Rance-Unger July 28, 2011

In a back corner of the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm is a nursery of what most farmers would consider butt-ugly plants with spindly stems, tiny seeds, and weedy characteristics. But they might just be the salvation of grain farming if the impact of climate change falls hard on the Canadian Prairies. The plots contain

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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U.S. Debt Crisis, Weather Outlook Pressure Crops

From Ewes To You

Search For New Herbicides Continues

Crop Report – for Aug. 4, 2011

CGC Announces Grain Variety Deregistrations

First Organically Bred Wheat And Oat Lines Enter Co-Op Trials

Black Soil Field’s Yield Returns To Average After Drought

Crop Report – for Jul. 28, 2011

Bioeconomy Gives Agriculture New Lease On Life

Ugly Perennials Getting Admiring Looks

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