View from inside a tractor cab with a hand on the gear shift and a digital display screen showing field data during precision agriculture operations. Photo: Bayer AG

FieldView prescriptions can now move wirelessly to John Deere Operations Center

A new link between Bayer's FieldView platform and John Deere Operations Center eliminates USB transfers and sends variable-rate prescriptions straight to the cab

A new integration between Bayer's FieldView platform and John Deere Operations Center lets farmers send variable-rate prescriptions directly to connected equipment without USB drives. As-applied data flows back automatically for post-season review.

Pea leaf weevil (Sitona lineatus), an early-season pest whose range and feeding pressure have increased in parts of the Prairies. Photo: AAFC-Williams

Pea leaf weevil chows down on Western Manitoba

Farmers in Western Manitoba are now seeing heavy feeding damage from the crop-damaging insect pest, which was first found in the province in 2019

Pea leaf weevil has spread as far east as Manitoba's Ontario border, while the west has become a Prairie-wide hotspot for the pest insect.


Pulse Canada is looking forward to the ‘transparent, commercial and meaningful’ trade relationship with China getting back on track. Photo: file

Pea prices respond to China tariff deal

Pulse Canada notes there should be enough time to move old crop peas in a meaningful way before the next crop comes off in August and September

Pea prices have already responded to China trade deal. Pulse Canada unsure if it will lobby Ottawa for compensation.






  Photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko/File

Saskatchewan crops a mixed bag 

Some cereal crops beyond harvesting with plans to salvage for feed

Marketsfarm – There was a wide mixture of the results in the latest crop report from Saskatchewan Agriculture. Parts of the province were hobbled by drought conditions, while other areas received upwards to 40 millimetres of rain following a series of thunderstorms during the week of July 18 to 26.  The desiccation of pulse crops

(Dave Bedard photo)

Manitoba crops holding on, need rain very soon

While crops in Manitoba remain in relatively good shape, the province’s July 18 crop report stressed that soil moisture reserves are inadequate to sustain those crops unless significant rain comes soon. Parts of the province received some rain with Elie, located in the central region, getting the most at 29.5 millimetres. A numbers of areas



File photo of barley being unloaded at a grain terminal in Ukraine on June 23, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Igor Tkachenko)

Ukraine’s farm output could take 20 years to recover, study suggests

Some crop sectors may recover more quickly

Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine’s agricultural sector could take 20 years or more in parts to recover from the ravages of Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to a Kyiv-based research centre. Ukraine is a major global grower and exporter of wheat, corn, sunflower and sunflower oil, but its production has fallen sharply since the war start