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Large oat production won’t move prices

By GFM Network News August 29, 2019

MarketsFarm — While the most recent crop production report from Statistics Canada predicted significantly more oats than originally expected, prices will likely remain stable. Statistics Canada estimated 3.952 million tonnes of oats will be grown in 2019, up considerably from the 3.436 million tonnes produced in 2018. But low carryover stocks from previous years means

Attendees at the Crop Diagnostic School earlier in July pore over an oat crop at the Ian N. Morrisson Research Farm in Carman.

Cereals, Local news

A thorn in the side of oat growers

Common buckthorn is a haven for crown rust spores over the winter and an easy source of infection if the farmer opts for a susceptible oat variety

By Alexis Stockford July 24, 2019

Oat growers may want to gauge the distance to the nearest woody stream bed the next time they choose a variety. That’s one of the messages sent out during this year’s Crop Diagnostic School in Carman in the first two weeks of July. Why it matters: Manitoba’s most popular oat varieties have either been downgraded

Cereals, Crops

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

Registration trials will have to wait for farm-developed organic wheat varieties while changes are made to the proposed trial design

By Alexis Stockford March 25, 2019

The University of Manitoba’s farm-based organic wheat-breeding program is ready to start towards commercialization, but the body responsible for recommending new genetics to the CFIA says there is still work to be done. Jamie Larsen, chair of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT), says a proposed trial plan submitted this year

Dan and Fran DeRuyck stand in front of their recently reopened organic cleaning plant south of Treherne.

Cereals, Crops

DeRuycks keep rolling with organic cleaning and milling

Dan and Fran DeRuyck hope to expand their customer base with their upgraded organic grain-cleaning plant, reopened earlier this year

By Alexis Stockford June 14, 2017

Dan and Fran DeRuyck’s organic grain-cleaning plant is one of the first things a visitor sees when they arrive at Top of the Hill Farm, south of Treherne, Man. The large shed dominates the west side of the yard, bordered by bins which, on any given week, might be filled with anything from wheat, oats,

Oats are a versatile food that can be eaten at any meal or in snacks of all types.

Recipe Swap

Oats after breakfast

This healthy dietary choice doesn’t just have to be limited to the breakfast table

By Lorraine Stevenson February 10, 2017

Hardly anyone says ‘porridge’ anymore. It’s a plain, old word, like grits or gruel or frumenty. For most of us it means, simply, boiled oats, a rather humble meal. Englishman Samuel Johnson, who had something to say about everything, once called oats “the grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland

CBOT oat December 2016. (chart as of Nov. 18, 2016)

Grain Markets, Markets

Drozd: Oat futures rally to a one-year high

Market Outlook: The increase might seem sudden but charts predicted upward movement

By David Drozd December 2, 2016

Oat futures at the CBOT experienced a 40 per cent gain from September 13 to October 28, 2016. The December 2016 oat futures rallied $.69 per bushel (all figures U.S. funds), going from a low of $1.71 to $2.40, a one-year high. The December oat futures contract had been in a major downtrend since it

Weeds are more obvious when looking at a wheat crop down (r) than looking at it sideways, says Manitoba Department of Agriculture weed specialist Jeanette Gaultier.

Crops, Local news, Weather

Recent rains help crops and weeds

Herbicide-resistant weeds make controlling weeds even harder

By Allan Dawson June 10, 2016

Most Manitoba farmers needed the rain, but wet fields have delayed weed spraying, says Manitoba Department of Agriculture weed specialist Jeanette Gaultier. Dry soils delay weed emergence, but the recent rains and warmer weather have triggered germination, creating a green carpet of weeds in some fields. “The crop is going to pop, but so are

Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: No. 2

Conditions as of May 9, 2016

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development May 10, 2016

Seeding progress in Manitoba is estimated at 48 per cent complete. Seeding is 45 per cent complete in the Southwest Region, 35 per cent complete in the Northwest Region, 40 to 75 per cent complete in the Central Region, 45 per cent complete in the Eastern Region and 40 per cent complete in the Interlake

Our History

XXRays Gang Plow and a combined harvester and thresher

Our History: September 1898

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 24, 2015

The XXRays Gang Plow advertised in the September 1898 issue of the Nor-West Farmer was said to penetrate “anything plowable, and draws 50 to 75 pounds lighter than other plows doing the same work.” The lifting spring was so powerful that “a 12 years old boy can easily operate it.” Among other machinery mentioned in

Clayton Robins opened his farm for a tour in mid-August to explain the benefits of his high-energy forage grazing system.

Beef cattle, Livestock

Putting grazing theory into practice

Clayton Robins suggests a grazing system of high-energy  forage can hone the best gains while regenerating pastures

By Jennifer Paige September 22, 2015

Following years of research and the publication of a Nuffield study, Clayton Robins is now seeing the results of implementing a high-energy forage system on his own farm. “The greatest hurdle to the forage-fed beef enterprise lies in the difficulty in providing an adequate level of diet energy, especially in the form of a low-cost

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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