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Prairie spring wheat bids rise with dry weather

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CNS Canada — Cash spring wheat bids across Western Canada improved during the week ended Friday, with prices receiving support from dry weather conditions in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Weakness in the Canadian dollar, which fell from the US80-cent mark to the mid-77-cent range between April 29 and Friday, added to the upside. Depending on the
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Crops, Markets

Prairie spring wheat bids tick lower

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CNS Canada — Cash spring wheat bids across Western Canada were slightly weaker during the week ended Friday, as the Canadian dollar gained ground relative to its U.S. counterpart. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down by roughly $1 to $2.50 per tonne over the course of the
Lisa Roy and Erron Leafloor handle the task of forking stooked wheat into the thresher.
Local news, News, News & Opinion

PHOTOS: Getting organized to thresh for the record

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Volunteers from the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Manitoba Agricultural Museum brought their skills, and their iron, to Winnipeg Tuesday to show the sort of work a world-record threshing bee is made of. The demonstration of old-school threshing was held at the Red River Exhibition fairgrounds as a preview of Harvesting Hope, an event scheduled for
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U.S. spring wheat yield projections highest ever

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Fargo, N.D. (Reuters) — Yield potential for spring wheat grown in the northern U.S. Plains was projected as the highest on record, with the crop benefiting from timely planting and cool weather, according to results from an annual crop tour. Scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s three-day tour of North Dakota, the top spring wheat
Crops, Weather

Rusts enter southern Manitoba from U.S.

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CNS Canada — While fusarium head blight and wheat streak mosaic have already popped up in Manitoba fields, a new strain of disease is making its presence felt in the province’s south. Stripe rust and leaf rust appear to have blown in from the United States. Pam de Rocquigny of Manitoba’s agriculture department said the
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Crops, Markets

Nearby spring wheat charts looking bullish

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CNS Canada — Nearby technical signals for MGEX spring wheat futures in Minneapolis have turned bullish, as prices rallied during the first part of June. However, the market remains rangebound from a longer-term perspective. The July wheat contact in Minneapolis has climbed by 50 cents per bushel since June 1, and settled Tuesday at US$5.8275.
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Cereals, News

Elgin-ND receives interim registration

This potentially high-yielding milling wheat will be available to western Canadian farmers in 2016

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Elgin-ND, a new high-yielding American Dark Northern Spring wheat, received a three-year interim registration May 20 from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), making commercialization possible in Western Canada. FP Genetics has the Canadian distribution rights. Buying Elgin-ND for seed to be planted in Western Canada from American suppliers contravenes plant breeders’ rights’ laws and

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