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Local Growers Shut Out Of Gourmet Potatoes

February 11, 2010

Most Manitobans have seen the Peak of the Market ads depicting a friendly, caring president Larry McIntosh. What most people do not see is the dictatorial way Peak operates. Last year they forced local gardener Trevor Schriemer to quit growing small gourmet potatoes because he was told that he was bypassing the Peak potato board.

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Canada Wheat, Barley Stocks Smaller Than Expected

By Rod Nickel February 11, 2010

Canadian year-end stocks of all wheat, barley, canola and oats were smaller than they were the previous year due to farmers harvesting smaller crops, Statistics Canada said Feb. 5. Stocks of all wheat in grain bins and country elevators totalled 21.685 million tonnes on Dec. 31, which was 1.5 per cent less than a year

News

More Crops Added To Pulse Seed Treatment Label

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 11, 2010

Syngenta Crop Protection’s pea and dry bean seed treatment Cruiser Maxx Pulses has now been cleared for use in Canada as a treatment for chickpeas, lentils, lupins and faba beans. Cruiser Maxx Pulses, a combination of active ingredients thiamethoxam, metalaxyl-M and fludioxonil, is offered as a co-pack of Cruiser 5FS and Apron Maxx RTA or

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

It’s A Buyers’ Market — But Changing

By Don Bousquet February 4, 2010

For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Jan. 29 lower. Canola was pressured down by losses in the U. S. soy complex, bearish technical signals and steady farmer selling as producers have

Crops

Products Now Labelled For Broader Use

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 4, 2010

Titan seed-piece treatment has an expanded label to include control of above-ground pests such as: Colorado potato beetle, aphids (potato, green peach, foxglove and buckthorn), potato leafhopper and potato flea beetle, making it the broadest-spectrum insect seed-piece treatment available for Canadian potato growers. Titan, a Group 4 insecticide, was initially registered in early 2009 to

Cereals, Crops

Smaller World Wheat Crop In 2010

By Nigel Hunt January 28, 2010

World wheat production looks set to fall this year following a sharp drop in plantings in the United States but the crop should still be the third highest on record, the International Grains Council said Jan. 21. The London-based IGC, in a monthly report, forecast world wheat production in 2010 at 653 million tonnes, down

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Grain Bags Need Further Study

By Laura Rance-Unger January 28, 2010

Grain bags, also known as silo bags or grain sausages, may seem like a quick-and-easy solution to the problem of where to put that bin buster of a crop. But a University of Manitoba grain storage researcher had some cautionary words about a product that has seen precious little study when he spoke to farmers

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds, Pulses

Pulse Crops A Popular Option

By Rod Nickel January 28, 2010

Canadian farmers will devote more acres this year to pulse crops such as lentils, because big global supplies of wheat have hit prospects for the country’s biggest crop while uncertainty overhangs canola. There’s more uncertainty than usual this year, because a late harvest kept many farmers from preparing land for the new crop, said Ken

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Top 10 Pulse Food Resolutions For 2010

By Pulse Canada Release January 28, 2010

1. Lose weight: Recent research from the University of Toronto has shown that eating pulses can increase feelings of fullness or satiety and reduce waist circumference. 2. Increase your fibre intake: One cup of cooked pulses contains approximately 15 grams of fibre or around half the recommended daily intake for adults. 3. Decrease your fat

News, Oilseeds

Big South American Soy Crop To Test Storage Capacity

January 28, 2010

The record soybean crops that are fast approaching harvest in Latin America will put the Southern Cone region’s infrastructure to the test, more so in Brazil than in Argentina. Isolated harvesting in the world’s No. 2 soybean grower Brazil has already started in the centre-west, the main soy-growing region which has some of the greatest

Daily Network News

Health Canada stops sales of coccidiosis medication Deccox on procedural issue

Canadian cattle herd sees first annual increase since 2018

Olymel parent company sees increased earnings in 2025

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