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Pulse Outlook Goes Against The Grain

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The bull market may be over for some crops in Canada but the longer-term outlook for pulse crops remains strong, according to Marlene Boersch, a partner in Mercantile Consulting Venture in Winnipeg. Boersch was speaking at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual GrainWorld conference in Winnipeg on Feb. 23. Relative to other major Canadian crops, the
Crops

Results Mixed When Fungicides Applied To Healthy Corn

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Spraying healthy corn plants with the fungicide Headline to boost yields most often didn’t pay in trials conducted in North Dakota and Manitoba last year. Moreover, excessive use of the fungicide (a strobulrin), which controls disease through just one site of action, could speed up disease resistance to the chemical, Joel Ransom, an extension agronomist
Crops

New Protection From Wireworm Damage

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Canadian potato growers have a new tool to reduce the damage caused by wireworm with new Titan (clothiandin). Available for the 2009 planting season, Titan is the only seed piece treatment registered for suppression of the damage caused by wireworm. “Protecting potatoes from the moment the seed piece hits the ground gives growers a head
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Farmers To Shun Grains For Cheaper Oilseeds

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Farmers will shun grains and turn to plant ing cheaper oilseed crops like canola and soybeans this year, Daniel Basse, president of Chicago-based research and advisory firm AgResource Company said Feb. 23. That will cause a shortage of grain supply late this year, Basse told farmers and analysts at the Canadian Wheat Board’s annual GrainWorld
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Mood In Grains Cautiously Upbeat

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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 futures at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended Feb. 27 mainly lower on sluggish demand. Canola saw moderate declines despite the fact that the U. S. soy complex was higher and the Canadian
Beef cattle, Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Feb. 26, 2009

Grant program branches into trees: The Hometown Manitoba grant program for community improvements now includes a tree-planting component, making up to $5,000 available for municipalities or town organizations to plant trees in public areas. The program also offers grants of up to $5,000 for communities to improve and enhance outdoor public areas and up to
Cereals, Crops, News

India Eyes First Wheat Exports In Six Years

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India, the world’s second-biggest wheat producer, is likely to export the grain for the first time in six years after bumper harvests boosted stocks, a leading grains trader said Feb. 17. The country will harvest 76.5 million tonnes of wheat this year, just 1.6 per cent below official estimates, Vijay Iyengar, managing director of Singapore-based
Crops

Effort Underway To Save Endangered Seeds

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Farmers and plant breeders around the globe are planting thousands of endangered seeds as part of a bid to save 100,000 varieties of food crops from extinction. In many cases, only a handful of seeds remain from rare varieties of barley, rice and wheat whose history can be traced back to the Neolithic era, said
Crops

Pros, Cons Of Cutting Corn Seeding Rate

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“The longer the seed takes to get out of the ground the more time there is for things to go wrong.” – PAM DE ROCQUIGNY With corn farmers facing ever-higher seed costs, does it make sense to cut the seeding rate to save money? It depends, says Pam de Rocquigny, Mani toba Agriculture, Food and
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Spring Wheat Could Be Sleeper Crop In 2009

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Spring wheat could be the sleeper crop in 2009, according to market analyst Mike Krueger. The Fargo, N. D.-based president of The Money Farm consulting service has told his clients to lock in diesel fuel prices, if they can, and secure spring fertilizer supplies because it could be short. Krueger told the Manitoba Special Crops

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