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Elgin-ND receives interim registration

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

By Allan Dawson June 2, 2015

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

Crops, Weather

U.S. spring wheat seeding ahead of average pace

By GFM Network News, MarketsFarm Team April 14, 2015

CNS Canada — Hard red spring wheat planting in the U.S. is underway and advancing faster than average due to favourable warm, dry weather in many regions, according to the North Dakota Wheat Commission’s crop progress report. As of Sunday, 17 per cent of the U.S. spring wheat crop was in the ground, up from

Cereals, Crops, National news, Oilseeds

FP Genetics unveils CWRS Certified Seed Profit Guarantee

The company is confident its new wheats will outperform bin-run varieties

By Allan Dawson November 4, 2014

FP Genetics is so confident one of its new Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheats is more profitable than older varieties grown from bin-run seed, it’s guaranteeing it. “We’ve developed a program that allows a grower to upgrade their wheat genetics at no risk to them,” FP Genetics CEO Rod Merryweather said in a news

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Carberry, 5440 Invigor Manitoba’s most popular spring wheat, canola in 2014

The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation has posted market share data  based on 2014 seeded acreage reports filed by farmers

By Allan Dawson September 3, 2014

For the second year running, Manitoba farmers’ top pick for red spring wheat varieties was Carberry, the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) says. And they liked 5440 Invigor canola, 24-10RY soybeans, Conlon barley, Souris oats and CDC Bethune flax, the list of crop varieties and their market share posted on the MASC website said. The

The treatment works by introducing a beneficial fungus which consumes the harmful fusarium strain. photo: lionel kaskiw, MAFRD

Cereals, Crops, News

A new biocontrol for fusarium head blight in cereals coming

An Ontario company will use a fungal organism found on a Manitoba field pea leaf  to ward off FHB and possibly other fungi

By Allan Dawson August 25, 2014

Fighting fungi with fungi. That’s how an Ontario company plans to use an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) discovery to control fusarium head blight in wheat and other cereal crops. Adjuvants Plus Inc. at Kingsville, Ont. has reached a 10-year licensing agreement with AAFC to use its patented technology — a fungal organism called Clonostachys

International guests learn how to make durum bread.

Cereals, Crops

VIDEO: Canadian durum exports still the best, but less consistent

Poor international durum yields mean  more business for Canadian grain

By Meghan Mast August 22, 2014

account_id=”2206156280001″ player_id=”ryGLIkmv”] Abdelkader Hamici, from Algeria, buys durum to make couscous and pasta.[/caption] Abdelkader Hamici, deputy general manager of Algerian processor Sosemie Eurl said he expects his country’s durum imports will rise to two million tonnes this year from 1.2 million because local production is down. Most of those imports will come from Canada. For

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Saskatchewan researchers help crack the wheat genome

The development could unlock untapped yield and quality potential

By University of Saskatchewan July 24, 2014

University of Saskatchewan researchers are part of an international team who published the first chromosome-based draft sequence of the wheat genome, a development that promises wheat breeders powerful new tools in developing varieties to meet the challenges of world population growth and climate change. “The release of the chromosomal draft of the wheat genome sequence will accelerate gene

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Weekly Manitoba Insect and Disease update

By Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Development July 18, 2014

MAFRD’s weekly Manitoba Insect and Disease Update is now available. See the version the website for full details and photos. Highlights: • Flowering canola crop needs to be protected against white mould since there have been many rain events lately • Phytophthora root rot of soybean has started showing up, especially in flooded fields. • Early

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

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Elgin-ND receives interim registration

U.S. spring wheat seeding ahead of average pace

FP Genetics unveils CWRS Certified Seed Profit Guarantee

Carberry, 5440 Invigor Manitoba’s most popular spring wheat, canola in 2014

A new biocontrol for fusarium head blight in cereals coming

VIDEO: Canadian durum exports still the best, but less consistent

Saskatchewan researchers help crack the wheat genome

Weekly Manitoba Insect and Disease update

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