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Oat prices to stay put over next 24 months

Manitoba and oats go together like beta glucan and heart health

By Shannon VanRaes February 26, 2018

Manitoba farmers could be poised to capitalize on a growing global demand for oats — if Canada gains access to the Chinese market. Speaking to producers at CropConnect in Winnipeg last week, market analyst Randy Strychar said that changing consumption patterns at home and abroad are presenting new opportunities for Prairie oat growers, particularly those

Oat plants in central Manitoba display chlorosis discolouration, one of the first signs of barley yellow dwarf virus.

Cereals, Crops, Local news

Aphid-borne virus found in Manitoba oat fields

The virus, and its associated chlorosis and premature maturation, has been noted in several oat fields

By Alexis Stockford August 10, 2017

Oat fields in central Manitoba are fighting off barley yellow dwarf virus. “We see it from year to year,” Manitoba Agriculture field crop pathologist Holly Derksen said. “I think this is probably the most severe that I’ve seen it in fields, but that being said, it’s historically been present in Manitoba and in varying levels.”

Crops, Opinion

Oats and alfalfa to reduce Corn Belt erosion?

By Union Of Concerned Scientists Release May 31, 2017

A new study released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that modified three- and four-crop farming systems could be scaled up and adopted widely in Corn Belt states, generating benefits to farmers and taxpayers worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The analysis builds on a long-term study at Iowa State University, known as

Crops, Local news

Manitoba Oat Growers’ Association celebrates success and solvency

The books are in the black and Mexican oat consumption is growing fast, annual meeting told

By Richard Kamchen March 8, 2017

The Manitoba Oat Growers’ Association is in good financial shape and the industry is targeting more sales to a growing Mexican market. That was the word from the group’s latest annual general meeting last week, in conjunction with the CropConnect event. For the year ended July 31, 2016, MOGA revenue over expenses hit $19,013, a

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

Cereals, Crops

Yorkton oat processor no longer accepting oats treated with pre-harvest glyphosate

Grain Millers Canada says its research links timing of application to reduced processing quality

By Allan Dawson June 2, 2015

Starting with the 2015 crop, oat buyer Grain Millers will no longer accept oats or oat products treated with glyphosate because of research showing it can change the processing quality. “We wouldn’t have taken this step if we didn’t think we had to,” said Terry Tyson, grain procurement manager for Grain Millers Canada based in

a group of culinary students preparing food

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

GMO food misinformation a problem: Folta

Food science can help farmers and food processors meet demands of specific demographics

By Shannon VanRaes November 5, 2014

Does science belong on your plate? Kevin Folta and Nancy Ames think so, as did their sold-out audience at a Canola Connect event last week at the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals. “Humans have been engineering plants for a long time, we have abilities to do some really good stuff — grow more

Cereals, Crops, News

Cereal research programs set back a season from summer flooding

2014’s flooding is the latest along in the growing season  anyone can remember, say BRC staff

By Lorraine Stevenson August 12, 2014

Flood waters that lapped close to the doorsteps of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Brandon Research Centre last month also submerged the plot sites of cereal research programs, and that means no data for researchers this year. All three programs have been set back a season due to data lost after their plots were inundated by

Amy and Donald Nikkel live with their two young children, Eli, age 2-1/2, and Alexis, five, on their small farm where they grow naked oats near
Lundar.

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Oats at a slower pace

Good food should be an excuse to slow down, say made-in-Manitoba cereal makers

By Lorraine Stevenson July 21, 2014

Some think boiling water for porridge takes too much time. The Nikkel household grows the oats and rolls them in their own mill first. Amy and Donald Nikkel, Interlake school teachers, set out five years ago to start farming at a pace and scale that made sense for their own busy lives. Today they are

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Strong outlook for organic grain prices, panel says

Imports are keeping processor margins away from the brink, says panel

By Daniel Winters April 11, 2014

While conventional farmers fume about rail delays and falling prices, the organic sector is worried that supply shortages and sky-high prices may derail future growth. “I think most people know that in the market today, demand outstrips supply and that’s why we have the prices that we do,” said Ken Sabatier, a buyer for Grower’s

Daily Network News

Canadian agriculture’s asks from the 2025 federal budget

China rapeseed meal futures see largest one-day gain in almost three months after Xi–Carney talks

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

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