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File photo of flooded cropland in the RM of St. Andrews, north of Winnipeg. (Manitoba Co-operator photo)
Crops, Pulses, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: Wet weather delays southern Manitoba seeding

Soybeans could take yield hit if planted in June

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MarketsFarm — Another blast of heavy precipitation across southern Manitoba, the third in as many weeks, has already delayed seeding for pulses, according to a production specialist. Laura Schmidt, a production specialist for Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers, said the 40 to 50 millimetres of rain across the region on April 29-30 all but guaranteed
CBOT July 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20- and 50-day moving averages (yellow and green lines). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop to three-week lows

Wheat futures hit lowest since April 8; corn drops to one-week low

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures dropped to a more than three-week low on Monday, pressured by falling crude oil markets and delayed U.S. corn planting that some analysts think could push farmers to plant more soybeans. Corn fell ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s weekly planting progress report on Monday afternoon, showing
CBOT July 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (green line), MGEX July 2022 spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. July 2022 hard red wheat (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. grains: Wheat futures fall after rains

Chicago soybeans, corn flat

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell to three-week lows on Friday, led by hard red winter wheat contracts after showers in key growing parts of the U.S. Plains provided a much needed boost to soil moisture, traders said. Corn futures ended unchanged after spiking to their highest in nearly 10 years for the
A late-spring blizzard and following snowstorm brought close to 60 centimetres of snow near Somerset and half a metre near Miami from April 13-17, according to community precipitation monitor CoCoRaHs.
News, Weather

Late season snow makes for late seeding?

Fertilizer experts John Heard and Don Flaten have some crop nutrient advice

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April really is the cruelest month. Or at least it was in Manitoba this year. Just as some fields, especially in south-central parts of the province, were turning black following Winnipeg’s sixth-snowiest winter on record, an Easter blizzard April 13-15, followed by a second storm days later, buried much of agro-Manitoba under 30 to 85
CBOT July 2022 soyoil (candlesticks, right column) with July 2022 soybeans (yellow line, left column). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soyoil futures rally to record high

Corn hits highest since August 2012

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soyoil futures surged to a record high on Wednesday after Indonesia broadened its export ban on raw materials for cooking oil to fight food inflation, traders said. “The move dramatically tightens an already tight global supply of edible oils that saw global prices surge when the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Yuri, a Ukrainian farmer, wears his body armour while preparing to work in a field on April 26, 2022 in the country’s southern Zaporizhzhia region. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)
Crops

Ukrainian farmers don bulletproof vests to plough frontline fields

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Zaporizhzhia | Reuters — Ukrainian farmers in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, which borders the frontline of the military conflict with Russia, are now wearing body armour to plough their fields. A week after the war started, grad rockets — bombs fired via a truck-mounted multiple-launch system — began falling right next door to the
File photo of lentils being moved into bins in Saskatchewan. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil acres likely up in 2022

Other pulses likely down, though

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MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada released its first survey-based crop acreage estimates of 2022 on Tuesday, reporting that while more lentil acres may be planted this spring, other pulses are expected to have their seeded area shrink. The national data agency projected 4.49 million acres of lentils will be planted in Canada this year, a 4.2

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