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Cereals, Crops, Forages

No Shortage Of Topics For Crop School

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“Zero-till is harder in wheat stubble and strip-till seems to be a way to deal with it.” – JOHN HEARD John Heard and his Crop Diagnostic School team have taken the advice that when life delivers lemons, you make lemonade. All that rain that’s hurting Manitoba crops has also hit the diagnostic school’s plots here
Cereals, Opinion

Avoid Hasty Response To Unseeded Acreage

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A s the seeding window closes, the unseeded acreage projections are staggering. But it’s difficult to know how governments should respond or if they should respond at all. The Canadian Wheat Board says Western Canada will have the lowest wheat acreage since 1971. Barley acreage is expected to be the lowest since 1965. Pressure is
Cereals, News

Goodale Bill To Put Farmers In Control At CWB

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“Charlie Mayer and Bill Knight, …they didn’t much like the Canadian Wheat Board, but they didn’t attempt to shoot it in the head in the middle of the night.” – RALPH GOODALE Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is trying once more to turn control of the Canadian Wheat Board over to farmers. The architect of the
News, Poultry

Winnipeg Group Seeks Backyard Chicken Option

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Darby Jones moved a small step closer last week toward enabling Winnipeggers to do what many rural Manitobans do: raise chickens in their backyards. A Winnipeg civic committee voted to refer Jones’s backyard chicken petition to a city council committee for further study. The Riel Community Committee passed the issue on to the city’s standing
Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canada’s Rains Support U. S. Soybeans

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For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca. The ICE Futures Canada canola market posted sharp gains during the week ended June 18, with prices climbing to their highest levels in six months as excess moisture concerns across the Prairies had the market rationing demand. Bullish technical signals
Cereals, Crops

Add Stripe Rust To Your Disease Watch List

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“With any rust the younger the crop is when infected the greater the potential for yield reduction. That’s why one of the main control methods is early planting.” – PAM DE ROCQUIGNY Farmers checking their wheat crops for leaf rust, tan spot and septoria can add stripe rust to the disease watch list. Jason Voogt,
Cereals, Crops

Greenfeed Crop Insurance Deadline July 15

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There’s one more crop option now that the June 20 crop insurance seeding deadline has past – greenfeed. Manitoba farmers have until July 15 to sow greenfeed and get crop insurance coverage, albeit reduced. However, not every crop is eligible for greenfeed. The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) defines greenfeed as “oats, barley, mixed grain,
Cereals, Crops, Forages

Crop Report – for Jun. 24, 2010

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SOUTHWEST High rainfall amounts were reported throughout the region in the past week. Early-seeded crops appear to be tolerating the moisture better than late-seeded crops. Approximately 15-30 per cent of crop acres will not get seeded due to excessive moisture, although greenfeed may still be planted. Early seeded cereal crops are in the tillering stage;
Cereals, Crops

Farmers Demand Ottawa Review Rail Costs For Grain

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“The railways … don’t want competition and they don’t want regulation. You can’t have it both ways.” – IAN WISHART Western grain farmers are overpaying the railways by an estimated $200 million a year or $6.87 a tonne to haul their crops to export, according to a study prepared for the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB).
Cereals, Crops

Oat Prices Explode On A Short Covering Rally

David drozd Although the oat futures market is the most thinly traded cereal grain market in Chicago, it still provides reliable chart patterns and technical signals on when to buy and sell. Reading a chart is much like reading a road map. It tells you where prices are going to go. Let’s begin this journey

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