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Production outlook keeps canary seed under pressure

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News May 18, 2017

CNS Canada — Excess soil moisture is holding up planting of canary seed in Saskatchewan, though according to one market watcher, the overall production outlook for 2017 is good, leaving prices struggling to rise. “Prices are soft,” said Kevin Hursh, executive director of the Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan. Prices remain locked in the 19-

Crops, Local news

Wet weather delays seeding in western Manitoba

Field work was limited into the second week of May in northwestern Manitoba, while the southwest fought rain

By Alexis Stockford May 18, 2017

Parts of western Manitoba were fighting wet fields in the second week of May, but Dan Mazier, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers, says that’s nothing new. Mazier said it is not unusual for seeding to begin between May 1 and May 10. It makes it no less frustrating for farmers near Minnedosa, however, some of whom had

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Weather to spark ‘tug-of-war’ in canola

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus May 17, 2017

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola traders are keenly watching Prairie weather, with variability expected to keep the market choppy in the near term, one analyst says. “There’s a little tug-of-war, back and forth; traders watch as every cloud goes across the Prairies,” said Keith Ferley, commodity futures advisor at RBC Dominion Securities in

Crops, Weather

Prairie oats at tipping point

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin May 17, 2017

CNS Canada –– Seeding delays in Western Canada could see more area shift into oats, which need a shorter growing season and minimal inputs compared to other options. However, with many fields still unharvested from last year, a tipping point will eventually be reached when nothing will be seeded at all in some areas. In

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Manitoba farmers making good seeding progress

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for May 15, 2017

By Manitoba Agriculture May 17, 2017

Manitoba Agriculture – Some rainfall received in most regions but at very low levels, only delaying seeding operations by a few hours to a day. All regions report good seeding progress made during the week with warmer temperatures and improving seedbed conditions. Approximately 50 to 60 per cent of seeding is done in Manitoba with

Crops, Markets

Prairie feed wheat, barley at seasonal highs

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News May 11, 2017

CNS Canada –– Feed barley and feed wheat appear to be settling into some seasonal highs, according to a market-watcher in Alberta. “Whether it goes up much more remains to be seen,” said Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. “Between Easter and May long weekend, we’re probably at a high.” High vomitoxin (10

In-field effects: The seed planted in both wheat plots had 12 to 15 per cent fusarium infection, but the seed on the left was treated and the seed on the right was not.

Crops, News

Check the germ on that wheat seed

High fusarium infection means farmers should test and consider a seed treatment before planting

By Allan Dawson May 10, 2017

This is a seeding season where pre-planting testing of wheat seed is an important first step, and seed treatments may be more important than ever. With unprecedented levels of fusarium head blight infection in Manitoba wheat in 2016, farmers should get their wheat seed tested for germination, consider testing for the presence of pathogens and

Crop Report, Local news, Weather

Weather cooperates, drying fields, improving seeding progress

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report for May 8, 2017

By Manitoba Agriculture May 9, 2017

Manitoba Agriculture – Warm, dry and windy weather conditions prevailed across the province allowing for favourable drying of soil surface. More and more fields are accessible for field work and seeding operations to progress. Planting of cereal grains advanced the most. Field peas, canola and corn are also being planted. Many areas continue to report soil

Spring seeding is ramping up in Manitoba as farmers still have no good answers on what to plant. Rosebank Farms was seeding wheat west of Miami April 29. Moist soil conditions saw little dust flying. Field activity was expected to build this week if the weather continued to co-operate.

Cereals, Crops, News

Wheat weakness brings seeding uncertainty

Producers aren’t happy when they look at wheat futures forecasts,  but their seeding options might be limited

By Alexis Stockford May 4, 2017

Low prices, high global supply and a near-record high on U.S. wheat carry-over have some Manitoba producers scratching their heads on what to put into the ground. “If you look at almost anything, nothing really looks overly good, in my opinion anyway,” Doug Heaman, a Virden seed grower and board member of the Manitoba Seed

Farmer Brian Derksen seeds wheat on May 2, 2017 near Miami, Man., about 80 km south of Portage la Prairie. (Screengrab from Allan Dawson video)

Crops, Weather

Prairie seeding off to ‘shaky start’

By GFM Network News, Jade Markus May 4, 2017

CNS Canada — Western Canada will likely see some favourable seeding conditions in the short term, one meteorologist says, though wet pockets in some areas need longer to dry out. “We are getting off to a little bit of a shaky start in some spots, but it looks like the weather pattern is going to

Daily Network News

CBOT Weekly: Additional soybean purchases strengthen U.S. soy

Trump, Xi discuss Taiwan and soybeans in call aimed at easing China, U.S. relations

ICE weekly: China, soy complex lift canola prices

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