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Results found that optimum wheat yields at sites with lower moisture emerged with a target plant count between 15 and 25 plants per square foot.
Cereals, Crops

Steady as she goes on wheat seeding rates

A recent Saskatchewan study suggests it might pay to lower seeding rates for low moisture, but that might not transfer to Manitoba conditions

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Recent research from Saskatchewan suggests farmers might want to hold back on their wheat seeding rate if they’re expecting a dry year, but it’s not clear how well the insight translates to Manitoba. The Western Applied Research Corporation study found that with a dry season on the horizon, a mid-to-low wheat seeding rate achieved the
Provincial seeding progress is about four per cent complete and slightly behind the 5-Year average of nine per cent for week 18.
Crop Report, Crops, News

Seeding progress delayed by recent rainfall

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 2 (week 18)

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Seeding progress across the province has been delayed with recent rains and currently sits at approximately 4 per cent of the acres being seeded. Producers have begun seeding spring wheat, barley, oats, and corn. The Central region is most advanced with approximately 12 per cent of each of the major cereals planted. Weeds are quickly
Seeding progression in 2024 compared to previous years.
Crop Report, Crops, News

Seeding kicks off in Manitoba

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 1 (week 17)

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Seeding progress across the province has just begun with approximately 2 per cent of the acres being seeded. Producers have begun seeding spring wheat, barley, oats, and corn. The Central region is most advanced with approximately 10 per cent of each of the major cereals planted. Corn planting is approximately 1 per cent complete.  Cereals
The Horsch Solus 
SX concept could seed cereals and small oilseeds, along with corn and soybeans, 
at optimum row widths with one machine.  
PHOTOS: JOHN GREIG
Equipment, Machinery

Planter and seed drill join forces

Horsch has created a concept to bring the advantages of a planter to smaller-seeded crops

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Is it a planter or a drill? If a concept machine created by Horsch eventually comes to the market, someone might have to invent a new category. “We’re trying to mix and trying to get the best of both worlds, which is a seed drill and a corn planter,” said Laurent Letzler, who manages Horsch
Heavy rain hits French winter seeding
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Heavy rain hits French winter seeding

French grain sowings slow and crop ratings fall after heavy rain

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Reuters – Winter grain sowings made little progress and crop ratings fell in France during the second week of November, farm office FranceAgriMer data showed Nov. 17. It is a sign that heavy rainfall took a toll on crops in the European Union’s biggest grain grower. French farmers had sown 71 per cent of the expected soft wheat
As long as ground isn’t frozen, it’s possible to get seed-to-soil contact after snowfall.
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Setting seed for 2024’s marginal acres

Dormant seeding can make the most of marginal land next year

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Seeding isn’t over, if Ducks Unlimited Canada has any say. The organization is promoting a dormant seeding program to boost 2024 forage production and make the most of marginal land. “We’re targeting the areas that farmers have identified as not being the most economically suited to grain cropping,” said DUC forage specialist Charlotte Crawley. “We’re talking kochia-infested areas, foxtail-infested areas
A Concord Disc Drill HD double-disc opener. (ConcordSeeding.com)
Crops

Concord seeding equipment brand to be discontinued

Products and designs to continue, but under Vaderstad banner

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A brand of air seeding equipment dating back almost five decades in North Dakota and beyond is poised to disappear in the 2024 model year. Concord — a brand owned since 2021 by an arm of Swedish seeding, planting and tillage equipment firm Väderstad — will no longer be sold under the Concord name, the
Corn in progress just east of Blumenort, Man. on July 20, 2022. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn could surprise in USDA’s acres report

Eyes on dry conditions in the Dakotas

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MarketsFarm — Although grains analyst Terry Reilly of Futures International said he isn’t expecting any big changes in two upcoming reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he suggested there’s an opportunity for couple of notable alterations. USDA is scheduled to release its planted acreage and quarterly grain stocks reports on Friday at 11 a.m.
Wheat in progress west of Pathlow, Sask. on Aug. 1, 2022. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

Canadian canola, wheat area up on the year: StatCan

More soybean, corn acres also estimated

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MarketsFarm — Canadian farmers planted more canola than earlier intentions, according to updated acreage estimates from Statistics Canada released Wednesday. Meanwhile, wheat plantings hit their highest level in more than two decades. Total canola plantings were estimated at 22.1 million acres by the government agency, which compares with the 21.6 million expected in April and

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