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Manitoba Potato Farmers Hope For Average Crop – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Ron Friesen September 16, 2010

Manitoba’s potato harvest was expected to get underway this week amid hopes for a decent crop despite all kinds of disappointment this year. Manitoba potato growers experienced slashed production contracts, torrential summer rains, plant disease and are now battling muddy fields. Surprisingly, then, this year’s potato crop doesn’t look half bad, judging by early indications.

Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Manitoba Agriculture September 16, 2010

SOUTHWEST Rainfall over the past week limited harvest to only a couple of days. In most cases producers were harvesting damp to wet grain. Harvests of cereal crops vary from 70 per cent complete in the Killarney area and 40 to 50 per cent north of Souris, to less than 10 per cent harvested north

Cereals, News

World Bank Urges Transparency In Foreign Farmland Deals – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Tim Cocks September 16, 2010

The World Bank is urging greater transparency in land investment transactions to protect local land owners as the volume of foreign farmland investment in poor countries swells. Foreigners investing in agricultural land in developing countries should be open in their transactions and recognize the rights of existing owners to avoid weak governance, the World Bank

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Farm-Gate Corn Price Seen As Record – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Charles Abbott September 16, 2010

Voracious demand and a smaller-than-expected crop will bring the tightest U. S. corn supply in 15 years, the government said Sept. 10, but its forecast for the drought-stressed world wheat supply was not as low as expected. The Agriculture Department said the U. S. corn stockpile would shrink to 1.116 billion bushels by the end

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Statscan Stocks Report Surprises Trade – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Rod Nickel September 16, 2010

AStatistics Canada report last week said Canada’s wheat stockpiles at the end of the 2009-10 crop year were the largest in four years, rising 19 per cent and surprising traders who had expected thinner inventories at a time of global supply anxiety. But overall spring wheat supplies don’t look abundant given harvest delays and slow

Cereals, Opinion

A Graph Would Do Nicely – for Sep. 9, 2010

September 9, 2010

Some of us in business can communicate directly with the final consumer of our product. Farmers usually aren’t so fortunate. For example, wheat goes to a grain company, then to a mill and finally to a bakery. The baker, rather than the farmer, gets to take the credit for that nice tasty loaf of bread.

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

StatsCan Report Sees Bigger Barley Crop – for Sep. 9, 2010

By Dwayne Klassen September 9, 2010

Canola and barley output in Canada during the 2010-11 crop year will be larger than expected based on the production survey released by Statistics Canada Aug. 20, industry sources said. “The numbers released are very realistic but with the good weather across the Canadian Prairies since the survey was conducted, one can suggest that output

Cereals, Crops, Forages

S – for Sep. 2, 2010

By Allan Dawson September 2, 2010

hould you be applying nitrogen when you plant your winter wheat? It turns out there’s no right or wrong answer. Twenty to 40 pounds of phosphorus with the seed is a no-brainer, says John Heard, a soil fertility specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI). The nutrient is necessary for establishing a good

Cereals, Crops

2010 Winter Wheat Variety Performance Data Now Available – for Sep. 2, 2010

By Pam De Rocquigny September 2, 2010

To assist Manitoba farmers with variety selections this fall, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) and MCVET (Manitoba Crop Variety Evaluation Team) is publishing the most recent variety descriptions and performance data for winter wheat. Farmers should consider a number of factors when selecting a winter wheat variety, including yield potential, agronomic and disease

Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for Sep. 2, 2010

By Manitoba Agriculture September 2, 2010

SOUTHWEST Rainfall slowed harvest but producers still got in a few days of harvesting, with the most progress seen south of Highway 1. Winter wheat and fall rye harvests are complete with yields reported average to above-average, with average quality. Spring wheat harvest ranges from very little done north of Hwy. 1 to 40 per

Daily Network News

Wheat breeding system no longer works, Canadian Wheat Research Coalition report says

Feed grain weekly: Barley steady in late February

Reduced Argentine soybean harvest, bigger crush says USDA attaché

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