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Other Manitoba crop insurance changes for 2013 and 2014

By Allan Dawson February 23, 2013

Expanding crop insurance coverage is just one of the changes for crop insurance in 2013 and 2014. Here are some others. Dollar selections per acre have increased to the following: All crops (excluding potatoes, vegetables and strawberries) $120, $160 and $200. For potatoes, the levels are $250, $500 and $750 and for vegetables and strawberries,

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Expect canola to give back some acres this spring

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 23, 2013

ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved off their recent highs during the week ended Feb. 15, with speculative profit-taking and increased farmer selling — brought on by the previous week’s rally — weighing on values. The market ran into support to the downside and was showing signs of stabilizing ahead of the Louis Riel Day

Crops, Oilseeds, Weather

It’s not the heat — it’s the photoperiod

By Gord Gilmour February 23, 2013

You can breed soybeans to grow just about anywhere, but whether you’d want to is another question, says an Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada soybean breeder. Elroy Cober told the recent Manitoba Special Crops Symposium that it’s widely expected that Manitoba will take the No. 2 slot behind Ontario in the coming season. “The short-season areas

Cereals, Crops, International news, Weather

Drenching continues for British and French wheat and rapeseed

By Nigel Hunt February 23, 2013

Heavy rain and saturated soil are threatening to reduce wheat and rapeseed production in western Europe this year with the most serious problems in Britain, crop analysts said. The outlook in top producer France is also deteriorating. “There are an awful lot of crops out there that are still under water, lots of patches of

Cereals, Crops, Weather

Drought projected in parts of the U.S.

By Charles Abbott February 23, 2013

Reuters / U.S. farmers will plant crops this spring under the shadow of a persistent drought that grips prime farmland from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, with grain supplies already tight from drought losses in 2012. In all, 56 per cent of the contiguous United States is under moderate to exceptional drought, twice

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Ukraine winter wheat in good condition

By Pavel Polityuk February 23, 2013

Reuters / No more than 400,000 hectares of winter grain crops, or up to five per cent of the sown area, are likely to be reseeded this spring against 1.5 million hectares in 2012, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said Feb. 19. “We expect the reseeding of three to five per cent (of winter grain

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High costs expected to bite into U.S. farm profit

By Reuters February 22, 2013

The seven-year-old U.S. agricultural boom, driven by record-high commodity prices and painfully tight supplies, is expected to peak this year and then come to an abrupt end as high costs start to bite, the government projected Feb. 11. The U.S. Agriculture Department said farm income would soar to a record $127.6 billion this year, up

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola exports, domestic crush must slow down

By Phil Franz-Warkentin February 15, 2013

Old-crop canola futures climbed higher at ICE Futures Canada during the week ended Feb. 8, hitting levels not seen since mid-September before running into profit-taking resistance to the upside. Dwindling stocks in Western Canada are the primary driver in the market, but canola is still only one oilseed among many in the broader market and

Cereals, Crops, News

U.S. winter wheat can recover despite harsh winter

By Mark Weinraub February 15, 2013

Reuters / The drought gripping the U.S. Plains has not killed prospects for a large harvest of winter wheat, and some rain could quickly turn things around, analysts and agronomists said. “Just because we go into dormancy lacking rain, not looking too hot, it does not ensure that we are going to have a bad

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Harvest losses bedevil sunflower growers

By Shannon VanRaes February 15, 2013

Sunflowers pose challenges during harvest as drier conditions lead to increased shatter and seed loss

Drier temperatures can help once sunflower seeds are in the bin, but are a challenge when they’re still in the fields. “It’s getting to be more of an issue every year,” Bud Pittenger told producers during the annual Special Crops Symposium in Winnipeg. “The sunflowers are drying down so much faster nowadays … there is

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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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