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Deadlines, Rotations Loom Over Remaining Acres

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“Canola actually holds on to its yield quite a bit better into that first week of June and so does something like sunflowers versus flax.” – ANASTASIA KUBINEC, MAFRI Normally farmers seed crops in a certain order, starting with cereals, followed by canola, then corn and then, by mid-to late May, soybeans and edible beans.
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Push For GM Wheat Resurrected

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Five years to the month after Monsanto shelved its controversial Roundup Ready genetically modified (GM) wheat, farm groups in Canada, Australia and the United States are pushing for the “synchronized introduction” of biotech wheat. The Grain Growers of Canada, Wes tern Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) and Alberta Winter Wheat Producers Commission are leading the
Cereals, Crops, News

Calculator To Determine N Rate

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“I think there is tremendous potential for this calculator. I can assure you that something like this is going to become a valuable tool in the farming community.” – DON FLATEN When nitrogen prices went through the roof a few years ago, farmers flooded John Heard with queries about determining the optimum economic application rate
Cereals, Crops

Winter Cereals Manitoba Seeks Members’ Input On Research

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“Winter wheat producers realize they’ve got to move ahead and that varieties are few and far between.” – JAKE DAVIDSON Winter Cereals Manitoba (WCM) has $180,000 in the bank and wants its members’ advice on how best to spend it. WCM president and Birtle-area farmer Garth Butcher got some feedback during the association’s second annual
Crops, News

High Plant Populations Benefit Corn Yield

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Here are some highlights from recent University of Minnesota research on corn plant population: Yield increases resulting from higher plant populations are primarily the result of increased light interception during grain fill by the crop canopy. Optimum plant population varies little with planting date or row width, but early-maturing hybrids may require a higher plant
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

U. S. Soybean Stockpile Reduced

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U. S. soybean exports will hit a record 1.21 billion bushels this marketing year, helping whittle the U. S. stockpile to 165 million bushels, the smallest in five years, the government forecast on April 9. “That is a tight number,” Don Roose, analyst for U. S. Commodities, said of the stockpile, roughly a three-week supply.
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola Hits Eight-Month High, Supplies Tighten

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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 May 8 higher, with old-crop canola rising to its highest level in eight months. Export demand, friendly technical signals and speculative buying all combined to
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

The Worst Winter In Years Was Hard On Winter Wheat Too

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“If (soybeans) can live off the nitrogen in the soil they will because it does cost the plant energy to make its own nodules.” – BRUCE BROLLEY Provincial officials have two pieces of advice if you are cons ider ing tearing up and seeding something else into that sad-looking winter wheat field this spring. First,
Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for May. 14, 2009

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SOUTHWEST Precipitation was minimal over the past week and temperatures remained cool. Seeding continued throughout the region as field conditions improved. Seeding of wheat is 20 per cent complete; 65 per cent of pea acres are seeded south of Highway 1 and 45 per cent are seeded north of Hwy. 1. Winter cereal crops have
Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Canada Wheat, Canola Stocks Below Trade Estimates

Canadian stocks of all major grains were sharply higher than a year ago thanks to bumper crops, Statistics Canada reported on Friday, but supplies of wheat, canola and oats fall below market predictions. As of March 31, total wheat stocks were 15.5 million tonnes, up 35.6 per cent from a year earlier but well below

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