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Pulse growers urge low moisture management for seeding
Crops, Pulses

Pulse growers urge low moisture management for seeding

Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers has some 
advice on planting in dry conditions

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For pulse growers used to planting into wet conditions, it’s going to be a year for recalibrating their seeding practices. The Manitoba Pulse and Soybean Growers (MPSG) has put the word out for producers to watch herbicide carry-over, salinity, and adjust tillage and seeding practices given lacklustre rainfalls in 2017 and snow-bare winter. Dry conditions
A farmer checks his soybean crop in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
Did you know?, News

The ‘breadbasket’ of the tropics?

Brazil’s tropical grain growers are upending the conventional wisdom on grain production

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One of your major grain-growing competitors has been turning the world on its ear by producing grain in a tropical locale. Historically the tropics have been among the poorest regions, with the lowest agriculture productivity and highest incidents of malnutrition. It wasn’t until the late-1990s the tropics began to emerge as a possible region for
Yvonne Lawley (l) presenting tillage research to growers at a field meeting last summer.
Crops, Oilseeds

Soybeans raise tillage issues

As the low-residue crop creeps into new areas, new techniques are needed

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Agriculture researcher Yvonne Lawley doesn’t want Manitoba farmers to rethink soybeans — she wants them to consider techniques to incorporate them into their production system more safely. The University of Manitoba professor says the crop’s earned a reputation as a soil buster, and at times that’s warranted. But they also bring a lot to the
A close-up of a lower stem lesion on soybean caused by phytophthora.
Crops, Local news

Phytophthora a growing risk to soybeans

The once-rare infection is now the No. 2 cause of soybean root rot in Manitoba

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The threat of phytophthora is on the rise in Manitoba. Results from a 2017 disease survey show it’s becoming common enough soybean growers will need to keep it top of mind as they plan their rotations this year. About 35 per cent of tested soybean crops in Manitoba were positive for phytophthora, although fusarium was
This unassuming vine from Australia has given soybean yields a boost, researchers say.  PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
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Wild vine boosts soybean yield

Researchers were looking for resistance genes and found a yield boost too

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A distant relative to soybean that’s native to Australia could soon lead to a big jump in soybean yields. The perennial vine, known as woolly glycine, or scientifically as Glycine tomentella, is a genetic resource that was part of a new study from researchers at the University of Illinois. “We saw yield increases of 3.5
Ron Davidson of Soy Canada says Canadian soybean farmers could get side-swiped if the Chinese impose import tariffs on American soybeans in retaliation to $150 billion in proposed American tariffs on Chinese imports.
News

U.S.-China trade war puts Canadian soybean farmers at risk

We might sell more soybeans to China, but lower American prices for seed, oil and meal would likely depress prices here too

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Ron Davidson isn’t exactly sure what impact Chinese tariffs on imported American soybeans will have on Canada’s soybean market, but it’s unlikely to be good. “It just puts uncertainty into the market, and for Canada a lot of risk, because it’s next door and if they (U.S.) can’t send their soybeans abroad (to China) a place to
Workers transport imported soybeans at a port in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China April 4, 2018. U.S. farmers worry they’ll be shut out of a major market due to a brewing trade war.
News

China tariffs on soy, sorghum spread fear in U.S. farm country

Farmers say a list of crops facing tariffs has them rattled and worried for their future

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China aimed a direct strike at America’s heartland on April 4, moving to slap an aggressive 25 per cent retaliatory tariff against U.S. soybeans, farm country’s most valuable export to China last year, worth US$12 billion. Over the past decade, fast-rising demand from China has fuelled a sharp rise in production of U.S. soybeans, which
CanoLAB and SoyLAB attendees get a crash course 
in weed identification in Dauphin March 15.
Crops

CanoLAB adds soybeans to the agenda

The two-day event hoped to get a better idea on managing canola 
and soybeans for growers who increasingly want to grow both

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Growers were looking for more than just canola knowledge from CanoLAB this year. Soybeans also stole the show. Put on annually by canola commodity groups, CanoLAB is usually a major stop for everything from canola fertilization and weed control to disease pressures and beneficial insects. This was the first year, however, that the Manitoba Pulse
Agronomist Peter Johnson doesn’t like Manitoba’s tight rotations.
Crops, Other

Tight crop rotations in the hot seat

Rotations were a major point as discussions turned to blackleg during this year’s BASF Knowledge Harvest

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It’s all but impossible to eliminate sclerotinia and blackleg from the field, but it’s also a mistake to assume crop genetics alone will manage the problem. BASF technical service specialist Colleen Redlick said farmers need to broaden their approach during the BASF Knowledge Harvest in Brandon earlier this winter. Resistance breakdown, something the industry has
U.S. soybean stocks ground high-flying canola futures
Grain Markets, Markets

U.S. soybean stocks ground high-flying canola futures

A dump of snow over the Prairies also put prices in flux

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Canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada platform soared to their highest levels in months during the week ended March 9, but ultimately fell back to earth after the U.S. Department of Agriculture hiked its estimate for U.S. ending stocks of soybeans. The agency pegged the carry-out at 555 million bushels, about 25 million bushels

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