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Canadian wheat bids rise, but upside limited

Weekend rains led to a sharp sell-off Monday morning, and those losses should spill into the Canadian cash market

July 28, 2017

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada posted small gains during the week ended July 21, as persistent weather concerns in the U.S. Spring Wheat Belt provided support. However, rains in the dry area over the weekend (July 22-23) could temper additional advances. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat

Cereals, Crops, Pulses

Grain grading changes for Western Canada

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 27, 2017

The Canadian Grain Commission has announced several grain grading changes for the 2017 to 2018 crop year in Western Canada that will take effect August 1, 2017: It has added an ergot tolerance of 0.05 per cent in all grades of fababeans and chickpeas; Changed the tolerance for grasshopper and army worm damage from eight

Cereals, Crops

Drought hits parts of North Dakota spring wheat prospects

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen July 26, 2017

Minot / Reuters – Spring wheat crops in central and northwestern North Dakota were showing the effects of hot, dry conditions and yield prospects were down sharply from a year ago, scouts on an annual crop tour said Wednesday. “The early-planted stuff looks the toughest,” said Dave Green, executive vice president of the Wheat Quality

Cereals, Crops

Fusarium head blight risk maps

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 21, 2017

Fusarium head blight risk maps are posted daily courtesy of Manitoba Agriculture. During the winter wheat flowering period up to the end of the flowering period for spring wheat, these risk maps will be provided for you here. The map above shows the current risk for fusarium head blight development based on the previous seven days of temperature and

Soybean acres are now higher than wheat, but it’s not certain whether they’re high enough to attract a crushing plant to the province.

News, Oilseeds

Manitoba soybean acreage now higher than red spring wheat

By Allan Dawson July 20, 2017

Manitoba farmers’ affection for soybeans has hit new heights. Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) projects 2.3 million acres of insured soybeans this year, up 39 per cent from last year’s record and for the first time higher than Canada Western Red Spring wheat. In 2000, Manitoba farmers insured just 18,419 acres of soybeans. Insured plantings

Crops, Weather

Global buyers of quality wheat face disappointment in Canada

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen, Rod Nickel July 20, 2017

Winnipeg/Chicago | Reuters — Buyers looking to Canada for high-quality wheat to make bread as drought roils output in the northern U.S. may be thwarted, as dry weather has also hit crops there. Wheat plants with the high protein content needed to bake bread have shrivelled in the U.S., one of the world’s top exporters,

This single head, infected with wheat blast, is the first known occurrence of the disease in North America.

Did you know?, News

Wheat lost blast resistance recently

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 19, 2017

There’s good news and bad news for the world’s wheat crops. An international consortium of researchers have identified a gene in wheat that protects the plants from the deadly fungus which causes wheat blast infections. Unfortunately it would appear many strains of wheat lost this gene sometime in the 1980s, when it was inadvertently bred

Markets

Hard red spring wheat bids correct lower

By Dave Sims July 19, 2017

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada ran into some technical resistance during the week ended July 7, as the rally that had sustained a meteoric rise in wheat country subsided on ideas the gains were overdone. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down by $17-$22 per

Ryan Boyd discusses his experiment interseeding winter wheat with soybeans during a June 29 field tour at his operation north of Forrest, Man.

Crops

Polycropping soybeans and winter cereals

By Alexis Stockford July 13, 2017

Ryan Boyd says an RTK guidance system is his first, but not his last foray into precision agriculture

Ryan Boyd is hoping winter cereals and soybeans will be a match made in polycrops heaven. The Forrest-area producer has previously experimented with cover crops and mob grazing in order to increase soil organic matter and infiltration, but this year has turned his gaze to precision agriculture. His operation was the focus of a June

Grain Markets, Markets

U.S. drought keeps Prairie wheat bids climbing

Wheat futures rallied on conditions in Montana and North Dakota

By Phil Franz-Warkentin July 7, 2017

Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada continued to rise with the rallying U.S. futures during the week ended June 30, as drought conditions in North Dakota and Montana worsened. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were up $33 to $37 per tonne across the Prairie provinces, according

Daily Network News

New strategies needed for Canadian agriculture to stand out in global trade

Feed Grains Weekly: Cash prices for wheat, barley largely flat

The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola

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