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Crops, Markets

Farmers’ wheat, canola deliveries picking up in West

Commercial canola stocks increase

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MarketsFarm — The advancing Prairie harvest has seen an increase in farmer deliveries of grains and oilseeds into the commercial pipeline, according to the latest weekly data from the Canadian Grain Commission. Export activity for canola remains very light through the first six weeks of the 2022-23 crop year, but growing supplies in the commercial
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Crops, Markets, Weather

Ending stocks tumble due to drought: StatCan

Canola stocks are below 'pipeline levels'

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MarketsFarm — Severe drought in Western Canada during the summer of 2021 has played a major part in reducing the stocks for Canada’s principal field crops at the end of the 2021-22 marketing year, according to Statistics Canada. Canada’s central data agency released a report Wednesday presenting total ending stocks for the country’s major crops
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Crops, Markets

AAFC raises wheat, canola production estimates

Ending stocks outlook mixed

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MarketsFarm — Canadian wheat and canola production are both expected to come in above earlier expectations in updated supply/demand projections from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released Thursday. However, while wheat stocks are also expected to rise, the canola carryout was revised lower due to expected increases in exports and domestic usage. The government agency raised
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Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan crops advancing quickly

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MarketsFarm — Hot and humid conditions saw crops in Saskatchewan advance quickly during the week ended Monday, according to the latest provincial crop report — although the humidity has slowed haying. When humidity is high, cutting hay becomes more challenging and hay that is cut does not dry down as quickly, which can result in
Biostimulants sometimes have a big effect but a multi-year study by Farming Smarter found only a modest yield bump in peas, nothing much for wheat and nothing at all for canola, said researcher Gurbir Dhillon.
Crops

It’s still ‘wait and see’ country when it comes to biostimulants

A multi-year study has found some products work sometimes on some crops, but it’s hit and miss

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Biostimulants work. Sort of. Sometimes. Depending. Dubbed the ‘vitamin supplements of farming,’ there are a wide range of biostimulants and they work — or don’t — in a host of different ways. Sometimes they’re worth applying and sometimes not, a three-year study by Farming Smarter suggests. “We did see an increase in yield for some crops, especially field
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Crops, Weather

Hail damage rescue treatments ineffective

Recent research shows treating hail-damaged crops with nutrients or fungicides does nothing to increase yields after damage

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Every summer, the perennial question is raised of whether to apply rescue treatment to crops damaged by hail. And every summer, the question was unanswered. Until now. At a recent Crop Talk webinar, Manitoba Agriculture soil fertility expert John Heard drew attention to an Alberta study that sought to find an answer. “I can report today on some
File photo of tea plantations in Sri Lanka. (Dmitrii Anikin/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

Rajapaksa dynasty draws to humiliating close in Sri Lanka

Food shortages, fertilizer ban among flashpoints

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Colombo | Reuters — The Rajapaksa dynasty dominated Sri Lankan politics until April when street protests against fuel and food shortages began to slip out of control. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, leaving no one from the once-illustrious family in a position of power. The president vowed last month to stay
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Crops, Weather

Rains bring much-needed moisture to Alberta’s south

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MarketsFarm — Rains across southern and central regions of Alberta were both much-needed and well-received during the week ended Tuesday. Both regions received 20 to 50 millimetres of precipitation, according to the province’s weekly crop report released Friday. The amount of rain that fell onto the south region was equivalent to the amount of precipitation
soil salinity
Crops, News

No washing away salinity risk

The same hydrology that made drought a salinity issue also causes problems the other way

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Farmers thinking that this year’s rains might wash away the salinity problems they faced during last year’s drought need to think again. Marla Riekman, a soil management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, says that while it might seem counterintuitive, as things dry out in wet years like this, salinity tends to get worse. “With salinity, we

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