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ICE weekly outlook: Canola to keep support going forward

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News March 16, 2016

CNS Canada — The ICE Futures Canada canola market rose over the week ended Wednesday. A lack of farmer selling combined with currency issues and action in the soy market to give the market a boost. One trader said the declining open interest caused him to think funds were also liquidating some of their long

Local news, Oilseeds

Look to more than calendar for best time to plant soybeans

Soybeans don’t like cold and they are very susceptible to spring frost

By Allan Dawson May 11, 2015

Now is the time to plant soybeans in Manitoba according to the calendar, but date is just one of four factors to consider, says Terry Buss, a farm production advisor with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (MAFRD) based in Beausejour. The others are soil temperature, the weather forecast for 24 hours before and after

Crops, Local news, Weather

Manitoba Crop Report and Crop Weather report: Issue 1

Conditions as of May 3, 2015

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development May 4, 2015

Weekly Provincial Summary Favourable weather and field conditions have resulted in an early start to the 2015 growing season. Producers across the province have started to seed, with the most progress in the Central and Eastern regions. Localized areas that had excess moisture in past growing seasons are still experiencing wet conditions and need continued

Local news, Oilseeds

Bringing soybeans in from the cold

A Brandon research scientist is studying the effects of cool temperatures during the Manitoba growing season

By Julienne Isaacs April 20, 2015

A Brandon research scientist is studying how cold temperatures during the growing season can put a chill on soybean production. Ramona Mohr, who works at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Brandon Research Centre, says it starts with a “chilling effect” at planting. Mohr presented preliminary results from her studies at North Star Genetics’ annual soybean

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola moving into choppy spring pattern

By GFM Network News, Terryn Shiells April 1, 2015

CNS Canada –– The ICE Futures Canada canola market saw some large price swings during the week ended Wednesday, but ended relatively steady compared to prices seven days earlier. The market is starting to move into a nervous spring trading pattern, which kept prices relatively rangebound and should continue for the next three to four

How early of a spring will it be? A tractor and air seeder were spotted Tuesday travelling north on Highway 23 near Roland in south-central Manitoba. (Allan Dawson photo)

Crops, Weather

Spring seeding fast approaching in Western Canada

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 13, 2015

CNS Canada –– An early melt in many areas of Western Canada should allow farmers to get on their fields within the next few weeks, although the uncertainty of spring weather remains a wild card in the background and seeding won’t begin in earnest until late April or May as the fields warm up. Areas

Crops, Markets

Decisions on new-crop canola acres still pending

By GFM Network News, Terryn Shiells March 12, 2015

CNS Canada — With the 2015-16 growing season fast approaching in Western Canada, decisions on how many acres will be seeded to canola remain up in the air. “I think a lot of people aren’t getting a lot of feedback from growers, as they haven’t really indicated a lot of big changes in acres,” said

Crops, Markets, Weather

Russia starts spring seeding with raised hopes for harvest

By Darya Korsunskaya, GFM Network News, Polina Devitt March 4, 2015

Moscow | Reuters –– Russian farmers have started their spring seeding campaign with prospects for the 2015 crop brighter than first thought, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. Russia, one of the main key wheat exporters to North Africa and the Middle East, needs a good crop after a sharp drop in the rouble has

Crops, News

Good yields still possible with crops seeded soon

MAFRD's tips to mitigate the impact of delayed seeding

By Allan Dawson May 22, 2014

Seeding has been late from the gate across the province, but there is still time for yields to finish with the front-runners, provincial extension agronomists said last week. Crops planted the third week of May can still achieve close to their full yield potential, although that potential will decline from now on, say crop experts

Cereals, Crops, Weather

2014 spring seeding off to a slow start

The first above normal temperature day this season sees farmers take to the fields

By Allan Dawson May 12, 2014

Miami farmer Wes Hill was seeding spring wheat May 10 trying to get as much done ahead of the rain and cool weather that arrived May 11. Hill has been planting for a week, but lots of other Manitoba farmers haven’t been as lucky. Some south-central Manitoba farmers were taking the fields for the first

Daily Network News

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