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OUR HISTORY: April 19, 1962

April 19, 2012

Our April 26, 1962 issue reported on ice jams and flash floods in southern and western Manitoba, conditions in stark contrast to the news item below, which was on slow pasture recovery following the drought of 1961, the driest year on record in Western Canada. Accordingly, another story reported that on-farm grain stocks were the

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Warning: Soil with seed can spread clubroot

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2012

Manitoba seed and potato growers are being warned about the risk clubroot-infected soil could get to their farm in the seed they bought for spring planting. The Manitoba Clubroot Action Team, consisting of representatives from the Manitoba government, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and the Canola Council of Canada, issued the warning in separate letters to

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Farmers risk squeezing canola rotations into the yield loss zone

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 15, 2012

Western Canadian farmers are expected to plant record canola acres this spring, but the tighter rotations may lead to other agronomic issues, crop specialists warn. After seeding a record 18.9 million acres of canola in 2011, Canadian farmers are poised to shatter that record in 2012. Industry participants are forecasting seedings in the 20-million- to

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Latest seeding estimates add another 600,000 acres for canola

April 15, 2012

Reuters / Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has slightly raised its forecast for canola plantings, while trimming its wheat estimate. Dry conditions heading into planting season are expected to boost plantings of most major crops, after flooding wiped out millions of acres last year. The latest estimate pegs canola acreage at nearly 20.4 million acres, up

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Officials meet to discuss low-level GMO contamination

By Alex Binkley April 15, 2012

Government and farm officials are continuing their efforts to bring some clarity to the contentious issue of low-level presence of genetically modified organisms, but it’s not clear how much progress is being made. Officials from exporting and importing countries recently met in Vancouver to discuss how to prevent trade disruptions when trace levels of a

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Pre-seeding risk premium being built into canola

By Dwayne Klassen April 15, 2012

The nearby May and July canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform suffered some minor declines during the week ended April 5, while the remainder of the futures saw small to modest advances. Profit-taking sparked some of the losses in the two nearby futures, as did an increase in hedge selling by grain

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Fewer U.S. soybean acres bode well for canola

By Phil Franz-Warkentin April 7, 2012

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts climbed sharply higher during the week ended March 30, hitting their strongest levels in over six months and settling just below contract highs on Friday. Canola first rose on the back of the tightening supply situation in Western Canada and solid export demand, but saw another leg up when a

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New technology focuses on native gene manipulation

By Shannon VanRaes March 29, 2012

The pace of canola seed innovation has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, but that doesn’t mean the industry can take a break or rest on its laurels. As canola production and consumption has increased over the last four or five years, the amount of soybean oil used worldwide has dropped by four billion

Crops, News, Oilseeds

CDC Triffid contamination on the decline

By Allan Dawson March 29, 2012

Officials from Canada’s flax industry are in Europe this week to brief government and industry officials on the progress Canada is making removing traces of CDC Triffid, a genetically modified (GM) flax, from Canadian flax. “It’s getting less and less frequent and less and less intense,” Flax Council of Canada president Will Hill said in

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Old-crop canola contracts resist downward pressures

By Dwayne Klassen March 29, 2012

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts started the week ended March 23 strong, but finally ran into resistance to post their first weekly declines in nearly two months in the old-crop contracts. However, even the correction lower was short lived, as Friday saw the market attempt to retest those earlier highs. Overbought price sentiment and pent-up

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OUR HISTORY: April 19, 1962

Warning: Soil with seed can spread clubroot

Farmers risk squeezing canola rotations into the yield loss zone

Latest seeding estimates add another 600,000 acres for canola

Officials meet to discuss low-level GMO contamination

Pre-seeding risk premium being built into canola

Fewer U.S. soybean acres bode well for canola

New technology focuses on native gene manipulation

CDC Triffid contamination on the decline

Old-crop canola contracts resist downward pressures

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