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Flea beetles were aggressive feeders in 2019, leading to multiple spray passes for some farmers.
Crops

Year in review: Keep an eye out for these critters in 2020

Entomologist John Gavloski says these should be on your radar

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Based on what went on in Manitoba fields this past season, producers may want to be on the lookout for several insects in 2020 that could potentially make a reappearance. At the top of the list are flea beetles, cutworms and grasshoppers, according to Manitoba’s provincial entomologist, John Gavloski. Speaking at the recent Manitoba Agronomists
Han Jun, China’s vice-minister of agriculture and rural affairs, attends a news conference on the state of trade negotiations with U.S. in Beijing on Dec. 13, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Jason Lee)
Crops, Markets

Chinese officials, Trump agree to tariff rollbacks

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Beijing/Washington | Reuters — The United States and China cooled their trade war on Friday, announcing a “phase one” agreement that reduces some U.S. tariffs in exchange for increased Chinese purchases of U.S. farm goods. Chinese officials offered no specific details on the amount of U.S. agricultural goods Beijing had agreed to buy, a key
Statistics Canada’s latest crop production estimates report pegged the country’s 2019 canola harvest at only 18.65 million tonnes.
Grain Markets, Markets

StatsCan report tells tale of poor harvest conditions

Fundamentals could soon favour canola values

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ICE Futures canola contracts started the first week of December by falling to their lowest levels in three months, as losses in outside vegetable oil markets spilled over to weigh on values. However, values recovered off of those lows by the end of the week, with the impact of the poor harvest finally showing up
CBOT December 2019 wheat with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: WASDE yields mixed results

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MarketsFarm — World agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have turned out largely bullish for wheat values, bearish for corn and neutral for soybeans on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). The report, released Tuesday, lowered U.S. wheat stocks by 40 million bushels to total 947 million tonnes,
Standing corn west of Giroux, Man. on Oct. 21, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Weather

StatsCan shows corn, soy output down across board

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Despite increases in Ontario’s harvested acres for both soybeans and corn, the province’s production of both crops in 2019 followed the rest of Canada’s lower in Statistics Canada’s latest estimates. StatsCan’s November estimates for production of principal field crops, released Friday, dropped Canada’s production of soybeans to six million tonnes, down 18.5 per cent from
A truck unloads soybeans imported from Brazil on the quay of a port in Nantong city, east China’s Jiangsu province.
Markets, Oilseeds

Chinese importers scoop up Brazilian soybeans

Uncertainty over a U.S.-China trade deal has been causing buyers to lock up supplies

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Chinese buyers scooped up at least 20 cargoes of Brazilian soybeans last week as uncertainty over a trade deal with the United States sent them rushing to lock in supplies, traders said Nov. 25. Importers also jumped on the new-crop Brazilian beans because of attractive margins, said two traders who declined to be identified. The purchases were for
Argentine farmers plant more soybeans
Markets, Oilseeds

Argentine farmers plant more soybeans

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Argentina’s government and the country’s main grains exchange increased their soy-planting estimates Nov. 21, as growers hedge against political uncertainty by shifting toward oilseeds, which are cheaper to grow, and away from more expensive corn. Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez, set to take office on Dec. 10, has said little about his farm policy plans. But

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