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March 7, 2013

Our March 8, 1979 issue featured a crop-management special, and this advertisement from that issue reminds of when Treflan was one of the most popular herbicides in Western Canada. Other ads in that issue included Avenge, Eradicane, Asulox, Hoe-Grass, Lorox, Torch and Buctril M. There was extensive information on growing rapeseed — it had not

Cereals, Country Crossroads, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Live well? Eat well?

By Lorraine Stevenson February 28, 2013

Become the next ‘Be Well’ storyteller Everyone loves a great story and it’s even better when the one telling it also lives it. That’s what you’ll hear and see in the ‘Be Well’ Stories told by Manitobans now found online at http://canolarecipes.com. The three inspiring video stories are those of Doug Chorney, East Selkirk farmer

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Expect canola to give back some acres this spring

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 23, 2013

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved off their recent highs during the week ended Feb. 15, with speculative profit-taking and increased farmer selling — brought on by the previous week’s rally — weighing on values. The market ran into support to the downside and was showing signs of stabilizing ahead of the Louis Riel Day

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Yellow flowers in February at CanoLABs

By Daniel Winters February 23, 2013

Brandon is hosting the Manitoba version of the Canola Council of Canada’s CanoLAB, which comes to Manitoba for the first time Feb. 28. “CanoLAB is a truly unique learning experience,” says Dan Orchard, Canola Council of Canada (CCC) agronomy specialist for north-central Alberta. “You get a full day with an extensive list of professional instructors,

Cereals, Crops, International news, Weather

Drenching continues for British and French wheat and rapeseed

By Nigel Hunt February 23, 2013

Heavy rain and saturated soil are threatening to reduce wheat and rapeseed production in western Europe this year with the most serious problems in Britain, crop analysts said. The outlook in top producer France is also deteriorating. “There are an awful lot of crops out there that are still under water, lots of patches of

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola exports, domestic crush must slow down

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 15, 2013

Old-crop canola futures climbed higher at ICE Futures Canada during the week ended Feb. 8, hitting levels not seen since mid-September before running into profit-taking resistance to the upside. Dwindling stocks in Western Canada are the primary driver in the market, but canola is still only one oilseed among many in the broader market and

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Canola award of excellence

February 15, 2013

Staff / The Manitoba Canola Growers Association has awarded honoured Dugald farmer Ken Edie the 2013 Manitoba Canola Growers Award of Excellence. Edie was the first president of the association back in 1970, when the association went by the Manitoba Rapeseed Growers Association. During his farming career, he served the Manitoba canola and agriculture industry

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Latest StatsCan stocks report puts last year’s canola season into perspective

By Rod Nickel February 15, 2013

Reuters / Canadian canola supplies dropped to a six-year low as of Dec. 31, highlighting a disappointing crop and strong demand for oilseeds, while wheat stocks were surprisingly lower, according to a Statistics Canada report Feb. 5 Canola supplies on farms and in commercial storage plunged 24 per cent to 7.37 million tonnes, while all-wheat

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Agriculture Canada sees biggest wheat area in 10 years

February 12, 2013

Canadian farmers will plant the biggest wheat area in 10 years in 2013 and slightly less canola, the federal Agriculture Department said in its first planting forecast of the year. Attractive prices and a modest shift away from canola and other crops should entice farmers into planting more wheat, according to the forecast for the

Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds, Opinion

Canola bounces off of support and resumes the uptrend

By David Drozd February 12, 2013

After dropping $90/tonne from the high of $657.50 in September, at the time of this writing, prices on the March 2013 canola futures contract have rallied $50/tonne since the USDA report was released on January 11, 2013. Thanks to phenomenal demand and improving basis levels, cash prices are back to the crop-year high ($14.50/bushel). For

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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