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VIDEO: Baker Colony wins Manitoba Corn Growers Association’s 2016 corn yield competition

By Allan Dawson March 3, 2017

Baker Colony of MacGregor has won the Manitoba Corn Growers Association’s corn yield competition two years in a row. The 2016 award ceremony was held Feb. 15, 2017 during the CropConnect banquet in Winnipeg. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson asked Baker Colony’s Mack Waldner how they did it.

Comment/Feedback, Crops

Huge U.S. corn exports face hurdles: Braun

Record-high stockpiles and looming record crops from rivals are causing headwinds for the crop

By Karen Braun March 1, 2017

The United States appears well on its way to exporting the largest volume of corn in nine years, but there will be some hurdles to overcome in order to meet the full expectation for the season. The United States is the world’s No. 1 source for corn and while not the primary form of domestic

Crops, Weather

Japan feedmakers to tap corn stocks after U.S. supply disruption

By GFM Network News, Reuters February 16, 2017

Tokyo | Reuters — Japan’s feedmakers are expected to tap the country’s emergency stockpiles of corn as inventories decline to critically low levels due to a delay in shipments from the U.S. Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries plans to approve the measure after heavy storms in the northwestern U.S. caused lengthy delays to

Crops, News

VIDEO: Theresa Bergsma on agriculture in Manitoba, and retirement

Manitoba Corn Growers Association general manager to retire in June 2017

By Allan Dawson February 14, 2017

Theresa Bergsma, general manager of the Manitoba Corn Growers Association, will retire in June after 29 years. Manitoba Co-operator reporter Allan Dawson met with Bergsma and spoke with her about the changes she’s seen to farming and corn production in Manitoba during her long career.

Crops

Federal forecast sees more oilseed acres, less in grains

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 1, 2017

Canadian farmers are expected to cut back the summerfallow allocation and put more acres in production this spring, planting more of those acres in oilseeds and fewer in grains and pulses. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis group on Monday released an outlook for principal field crops which, assuming a return to average or trend

Crops, Local news

VIDEO: Corn: Is Goss’s Wilt on the rise in Manitoba?

By Shannon VanRaes January 20, 2017

Holly Derksen of Manitoba Agriculture talks about the spread of Goss’s Wilt in Manitoba and what corn growers can do to manage the bacterial disease, in this video recorded at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon.

Cereals, Markets, Pulses

Top three marketing resolutions for 2017

By Jennifer Blair January 17, 2017

This year, instead of making a New Year’s resolution to lose some weight or save some money, consider resolving to improve your marketing plan. PI Financial’s David Derwin has three simple marketing resolutions to get you started.

Comment, Comment/Feedback

Comment: Hard numbers and hard politics

Low crop prices and trade uncertainty are a trouble combination looming for 2017

By Alan Guebert January 16, 2017

The calendar may have changed but the numbers all U.S. farmers will work with this new year are little different from the numbers everyone worked with last year. For example, 2016’s corn production was baked-in last fall and so too are most of 2017’s options. We grew a staggering 15.3 billion bu. last year, will

Corn growth has a sound that tells researchers a lot about how  that process works.

Cereals, Did you know?, News

You really can hear corn grow

U.S. researchers say isolating this sound has given them  surprising insight into plant growth

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 19, 2016

There’s an old farmer’s tale that says, “On a quiet night you can hear the corn grow.” It may seem funny, but Douglas Cook at New York University and colleagues Roger Elmore and Justin McMechan, at the University of Nebraska were able to use contact microphones to directly record the sounds of corn growing. Corn

Crops

Large yields keep Manitoba farmers looking to corn

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin December 13, 2016

CNS Canada — Manitoba corn growers saw record yields this year despite an adverse harvest — and that trend of big crops is expected to continue, as varieties improve and more farmers commit to the crop. “It appears that the trend is headed toward larger (corn) crops,” said Myron Krahn, president of the Manitoba Corn

Daily Network News

Canadian trade tribunal to examine imports of frozen, canned vegetables

Pay more attention to South American corn

Board appointments hint Richardson Int. may rejoin canola council

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