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(Giuseppe Carotenuto photo courtesy FAO)

Canada’s ag output seen likely rising under climate change

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team September 18, 2018

CNS Canada — A new United Nations report suggests just how climate change will reshape agriculture by 2050 — and that Canada’s production capacity stands to benefit. International trade will play an ever-larger role in helping to feed people in food-deficient regions, as warmer temperatures and less precipitation will damage yields in many tropical areas,

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn tumbles after USDA boosts production forecast

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer September 12, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures fell 3.6 per cent on Wednesday, for their biggest daily declines since April, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its forecast for U.S. production more than analysts expected, traders said. Wheat futures also tumbled, tracking losses in corn and on pressure from USDA unexpectedly boosting Russia’s wheat

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Chickpeas buck pulse trend

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries September 4, 2018

CNS Canada — Saskatchewan farmers are expected to turn in a smaller pulse harvest this fall, although chickpea production is bucking the overall downward trend. Chickpeas are the only Saskatchewan pulse crop to post a production increase, in Statistics Canada’s latest estimate of 2018 production. The estimates show Saskatchewan growers are expected to harvest about

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Wider price spreads likely with big chickpea crop ahead

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin July 18, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers planted their largest chickpea crop in more than a decade in 2018, with the bigger crop likely to lead to a wider price spread between larger- and smaller-calibre supplies. Statistics Canada has placed chickpea acreage for 2018 at 468,900 acres, which would be well above the 160,000 acres planted in

Hard white winter wheat growing in North Carolina in 2010. (Dave Marshall photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat slips on bearish USDA crop forecast

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen May 10, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell to a near two-week low on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s first official estimate of the 2018-19 U.S. wheat harvest came in above trade expectations. Soybean futures rose, while corn followed wheat lower. CBOT July wheat settled down four cents at $5.06-1/2

A sclerotinia-infected canola stem. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops, Oilseeds

Sclerotinia risk high, but does it pay to spray?

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 9, 2014

Provincial agriculture officials are warning Manitoba farmers that the sclerotinia risk in canola is high in many areas of the province — but farms may want to do a cost-benefit analysis before treating if their crop is already compromised by excess moisture. [Related story] If using a fungicide to protect the crop, target application for

Crops

Manitoba’s first glyphosate-resistant weed confirmed

The good news is, the weed was found at only two sites out of 283 surveyed last fall

By Allan Dawson April 15, 2014

Manitoba has its first official glyphosate-resistant weed, and as expected, it is kochia. But out of 283 fields surveyed last fall, only two were found with glyphosate-resistant kochia. Both are in the Red River Valley. “I was surprised about where it was found,” Bruce Brolley, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development’s (MAFRD) crops knowledge centre

Wanda McFayden speaks to producers in Arborg.

Forages, Livestock

What’s hiding in the tall grass? Could be conservation benefits

Properly maintained grasslands can promote conservation as well as  a greater public understanding of how farmers interact with the land

By Shannon VanRaes January 20, 2014

It’s about more than providing livestock with nutritious feed and forage. Properly maintained grasslands can also contribute to society’s understanding of the work farmers do, as well as play a valuable role in conservation efforts, says Wanda McFayden, executive director of the Manitoba Forage & Grassland Association. The organization changed its name last summer to

Canadian Seed Growers Association executive director Dale Adolphe says the current variety registration has lots of flexibility, but government is sometimes slow to move crop kinds after the industry has requested it.

Crops

Seed growers support current variety registration system

By Allan Dawson January 10, 2014

Canada has a flexible variety registration system so it doesn’t need changing, Dale Adolphe, executive director of the Canadian Seed Growers Association, told the Manitoba Seed Growers Association’s annual meeting in Winnipeg Dec. 12. But what does need changing, he added, is how quickly the federal government moves a crop kind to a different registration

Brian Beres, chair of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale, told the Manitoba Seed Growers Association annual meeting Dec. 12, 2013 about changes the committee has approved for recommending new wheats for registration.

Cereals, Crops

Wheat variety recommending committee adopts streamlined measure

By Allan Dawson January 10, 2014

Committee chair Brian Beres says the new operating procedures are supposed to be more predictable and transparent

The variety registration process for western Canadian wheat is being streamlined, but scientific merit assessment of disease resistance, agronomy and end-use quality will continue. This and other changes overwhelmingly approved in a vote Dec. 5, 2013 by members of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT), will make the recommending process more

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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