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As harvest looms, China tells farmers to replant or switch crops

Farmers say crops are stunted from lack of water, government sees “serious threat” to food production

By Thomas Peter, Xiaoyu Yin September 6, 2022

As China’s record heatwave starts to subside, farmers are assessing the damage caused by a prolonged drought while the government is urging them to replant or switch crops where they can. More than 70 days of extreme temperatures and low rainfall have wreaked havoc along the basin of the Yangtze, which supports more than 450

CBOT December 2022 corn (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and dark green lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn dips but still posts monthly gain

CBOT soy lower, wheat up

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen August 31, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures declined for a second session on Wednesday on profit-taking at the end of the month and mounting recession worries, but the market nonetheless gained eight per cent during August due to eroding U.S. and European crop prospects. Soybean futures ended lower after a back-and-forth session. But wheat turned

An aerial view of parched terrace fields at Chongqing’s Fuyuan village in east-central China on Aug. 19, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter)

Farmit Manitoba

Yangtze tributary runs dry as China faces another month of drought

Water is running low when crops are at a crucial stage, officials say

By Reuters August 31, 2022

Chongqing/Shanghai | Reuters — Residents living near a tributary of the Yangtze river in the southwestern region of Chongqing clambered along the dry riverbed Aug. 18 amid an unprecedented drought across the region that could last another month. “I am actually pretty worried, because the water has been cut off in my compound,” said Tian

Livestock, Weather

Initial drought list ready for 2022 livestock tax deferrals

Much of Manitoba, southern Alberta designated for 2022

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 31, 2022

Many of the Prairie livestock producers forced by drought to make “difficult herd management decisions” in the 2022 income tax year are now eligible to defer the taxable income from those decisions. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Tuesday released the initial list of designated regions in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan where livestock tax deferral

File photo of a pea crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: StatCan shows big jump in pea, lentil production

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News August 30, 2022

MarketsFarm –– The Canadian pulse harvest appears to be making a comeback after production struggled with a historic drought in Western Canada last year. Statistics Canada (StatCan) released its July satellite image-based principal field crop production estimates on Monday, projecting sharp increases in production for most of Canada’s crops, including pulses. Canada’s dry pea harvest

Crops, Weather

Canadian crop production bounces back, StatCan reports

Wheat at higher end of trade projections

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News August 29, 2022

MarketsFarm — After 2021’s historic drought on the Prairies caused crop production to fall to historic lows, the 2022 harvest has mostly bounced back to pre-drought levels, according to Statistics Canada. StatCan on Monday released its July 2022 satellite image-based principal field crop production estimates, which confirmed analysts’ expectations that this year’s crop production would

DFM says extraordinary cost increases justified a nearly 11 per cent increase in milk prices.

Dairy cattle, News

Province’s dairy farmers needed second price hike, DFM says

Lack of transparency in price-setting makes Canadian dairy an easy target for critics

By Geralyn Wichers August 27, 2022

High feed costs, after-effects from last year’s drought and other rising costs made double dairy price hikes necessary for Manitoba farmers, Dairy Farmers of Manitoba says. “Farmers were telling us – you know, I could feel it too – that, you know ‘I’ve already used up all my cash reserves’, and costs were rising quickly,

Crops, Markets, Weather

Greater crop production estimated prior to StatCan report

Extended time lag between survey, data's release criticized

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News August 26, 2022

MarketsFarm — Analysts are expecting Canadian crop production totals for the 2022-23 marketing year to be substantially higher compared to drought-stricken 2021-22, but still not enough to fully replenish supplies. Statistics Canada (StatCan) will publish its first satellite image model-based yield and production estimates for principal field crops on Monday. Traders and analysts are interested

CBOT November 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybean and wheat futures rise 2.2 per cent

Chicago corn futures firm

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub August 22, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures rose 2.2 per cent on Monday, supported by hopes for a pick-up in the pace of exports as farmers in top global consumer China struggle with hot and dry weather that is expected to reduce the size of the crop there. “It appears that exporters

Crops, Weather

China’s farmers struggle to save crops as heatwave, drought drag on

By GFM Network News August 19, 2022

Chongqing | Reuters — As the tinder-dry countryside along China’s Yangtze river basin withers under a heatwave that has lasted more than two months, veteran farmer Chen Xiaohua recalled the last severe drought to hit his crops more than 60 years ago. “This year is drier than 1960,” said Chen, 68, from his plot of

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle strengthen Tuesday

Larkin to step down as Grain Growers of Canada Executive Director

Calling for bigger crops ahead of StatCan report

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