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Data represents reported seeding date and crop yields of fields >200 acres (2005-2013).

Cool soils? Seed cereals, field peas first

Manitoba soil temperatures are increasing, but vary with soil type and location

By Allan Dawson May 2, 2018

If soil temperatures are cool plant cereals and field peas first, says Manitoba Agriculture Farm Production Advisor Lionel Kaskiw, based in Souris. Soil temperatures are warming, but are still variable depending on soil type and location, he said during the Westman Crop Talk webinar May. 1. Soil temperature readings are available at 109 Manitoba Agriculture

Crops, Markets, Weather

Trade predicts fewer pulse acres, another canola record

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News April 23, 2018

CNS Canada — With the uncertainty regarding the pulse exports to India, it’s looking like 2018 could see more canola acres planted in Canada. Statistics Canada will release its Principal Field Crop Areas report on Friday (April 27). Last year saw Canada’s canola area at a record 23 million acres, but this year could again

Grain Markets, Markets

Canola futures see support despite bearish carry-out

July canola slips on strength in the Canadian dollar

By Dave Sims April 19, 2018

Canola futures took a step back during the week ended April 13, weighed down by strength in the Canadian dollar. Traders began exiting the ICE Futures Canada May contract and securing more favourable positions. While the July contract fell $11.30 on the week, to $526 a tonne, it still showed independent strength given the bearish

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola backs away from lofty heights

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 11, 2018

CNS Canada — It was a busy week for canola contracts on ICE Futures Canada as the most-active July contract rocked and rolled between $530 and $540 per tonne before settling Wednesday at the $528 mark. The last time the dominant canola contract was above the $535 mark was in November last year. Commercial interest,

Crops, Markets

Canada trade deficit jumps as rail problems cut grain exports

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News April 5, 2018

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s trade deficit in February jumped to $2.69 billion from $1.94 billion in January as rail transport problems slashed exports of wheat and canola, Statistics Canada said on Thursday. The deficit was larger than the $2 billion shortfall predicted by analysts in a Reuters poll. Canada has only recorded two monthly

Gregory Sekulic, agronomy specialist with the Canola Council of Canada, urges farmers to count stands in the fall during his CanoLAB talk in Dauphin March 15.

Crops, Local news

Fall stand counts pegged as a better measure for canola production

CanoLAB speakers say it’s time to add a fall  stand count to the schedule to see how close that target density really is

By Alexis Stockford April 4, 2018

Few farmers track stand density after the combine rolls, but the Canola Council of Canada says those are the numbers that really count. “That’s going to give you your absolute measure of success,” Gregory Sekulic, agronomy specialist with the council, said. “When you’re talking about seed mortality, we quite commonly see in excess of 50

CanoLAB and SoyLAB attendees get a crash course  in weed identification in Dauphin March 15.

Crops

CanoLAB adds soybeans to the agenda

The two-day event hoped to get a better idea on managing canola  and soybeans for growers who increasingly want to grow both

By Alexis Stockford March 28, 2018

Growers were looking for more than just canola knowledge from CanoLAB this year. Soybeans also stole the show. Put on annually by canola commodity groups, CanoLAB is usually a major stop for everything from canola fertilization and weed control to disease pressures and beneficial insects. This was the first year, however, that the Manitoba Pulse

Agronomist Peter Johnson doesn’t like Manitoba’s tight rotations.

Crops, Other

Tight crop rotations in the hot seat

Rotations were a major point as discussions turned to blackleg during this year’s BASF Knowledge Harvest

By Alexis Stockford March 21, 2018

It’s all but impossible to eliminate sclerotinia and blackleg from the field, but it’s also a mistake to assume crop genetics alone will manage the problem. BASF technical service specialist Colleen Redlick said farmers need to broaden their approach during the BASF Knowledge Harvest in Brandon earlier this winter. Resistance breakdown, something the industry has

Differential tariffs: Some countries such as Japan have tariffs which give preference to raw seed over oil.
Canola Council of Canada

Crops, News

Poor rail service hitting canola crushers too

Some plants have had to shut down for a couple of days because trains have been delayed

By Allan Dawson March 20, 2018

Poor rail service is hurting value-added agriculture too. Some of Canada’s canola-crushing plants have had to shut down from one to three days because the railways are failing to move oil and meal fast enough, with the biggest disruptions in the West and on CN Rail lines. The crushers say that is costing millions of

Grain Markets, Markets

U.S. soybean stocks ground high-flying canola futures

A dump of snow over the Prairies also put prices in flux

By Dave Sims March 16, 2018

Canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada platform soared to their highest levels in months during the week ended March 9, but ultimately fell back to earth after the U.S. Department of Agriculture hiked its estimate for U.S. ending stocks of soybeans. The agency pegged the carry-out at 555 million bushels, about 25 million bushels

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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