2011 Harvest Nearing The Finish Line

Southwest Region Rainfall was general with amounts ranging from 10 to 20 mm. The precipitation was welcome in most areas. Harvest is almost complete. Spring cereal and oilseed acres were down due to wet conditions in the spring. Yields and quality for wheat, barley, oats, winter wheat, fall rye, canola, and flax were average. Sunflower

Canola Forecast Drops, Wheat Up: StatsCan

StatsCan has reduced its canola estimate to 12.9 million tonnes, still a record high but down from the 13.2 million tonnes in its midsummer survey and well below industry predictions of 13.8 million tonnes. The revised downward forecast helped ICE Canada canola futures pare earlier losses. Canola production still has upside heading into the final


Shrinking Oat Stocks May Add To Rising Food Costs

North American oat stocks look to fall to a near-record low next year, tightening milling supplies used in breakfast cereals such as Cheerios even as food companies struggle to contain input costs. Relatively high prices of commodities including corn, sugar and cocoa have for the past year left food companies facing the dilemma of whether

Crop Report – for Sep. 22, 2011

SOUTHWEST REGION Most of the Southwest Region received 10 to 30 mm of rain over the past week. Several areas reported frost Wednesday and Thursday evenings 0 with temperatures dropping to -4 C in some areas. Harvest over the past week slowed as producers are waiting for the late-seeded crops to dry down. Rainfall and

Crop Report – for Sep. 15, 2011

SOUTHWEST REGION There was little to no rainfall over the past week, which allowed producers to make good harvest progress. Cereal crops are 60 per cent complete with harvest south of Highway 2 more advanced compared to north of the highway. Yields to date are average to below average with average quality. Several producers are


Tight Year-End Stocks Forecast

Canada’s Agriculture Department slashed its production forecast for wheat, but raised its canola outlook July 5, while warning that overall crop stocks will drop to a record low this summer. Agriculture Canada cut its harvest estimate for all wheat to 24 million tonnes from June’s forecast of 25.5 million tonnes. Canola production rises to a

One More Seeding Option

The crop insurance deadlines for annual crops have passed, but farmers still have an opportunity to generate a salable crop from those unseeded acres – while controlling weeds and soaking up some of that excess moisture. Extension agronomists and cattle producers are urging crop farmers with unseeded acres to grow greenfeed. With so many pastures



Letters – for Apr. 14, 2011

Open letter to Brian Otto, president of Western Barley Growers Association: I dissected the results of the CWB elections and found a very different result and meaning than the outcome your ads proclaim. Upon looking at who originally voted in the first round and then calculating where they went on the second ballot, it became

Triton Now Registered For Malt Barley

DuPont has announced that its Triton C herbicide is now registered for use on both feed and malting barley. DuPont says Triton C controls a unique spectrum of weeds, including 24 different broadleaf and is well known among growers for control of cleavers as well as growing threats such as stork’s-b i l l ,