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Western Canadian wheat bids seen softening

Large and potentially larger global supplies put pressure on prices

By Dave Sims March 30, 2017

Spring wheat bids in Western Canada were lower during the week ended March 24, as favourable weather in the U.S. Plains and large world supplies weighed on the market. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were down $4-$5 per tonne across the Prairie provinces, according to price quotes from

Tom Sewell shared how he went to complete no-till seeding in Britain.

Crops

British no-tillers worry about potential loss of glyphosate

But Tom Sewell says he’ll still find a way to continue his no-till system

By John Greig March 29, 2017

A pioneer in British no-till farming said there’s a good chance European farmers will lose access to glyphosate. “It’s a French and German thing,” said Tom Sewell at the Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario conference recently in London. The politics of those two countries mean that there is pressure to ban the herbicide which is

Grain Markets, Markets

Prairies’ cash wheat values finish week mixed

MGEX May wheat was up on the week, while CBOT and K.C. May wheat slipped

By Dave Sims March 23, 2017

Spring wheat bids in Western Canada were mixed during the week ended March 17, with gains in some classes and losses in others as markets reacted to activity in the U.S. futures. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were up $1-$2 per tonne across the Prairie provinces, according to

Crops, News

New hard white spring wheat HW388 recommended for registration

Interest in the Canada Western Hard White Spring wheat class fell after a couple of poor-quality crops in the 1990s

By Allan Dawson March 21, 2017

Richard Cuthbert hopes HW388, his new Canada Western Hard White Spring (CWHWS) wheat will stimulate renewed interest in the class among western Canadian farmers. The Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) recommended HW388 for registration at its annual meeting in Winnipeg Mar. 2. “It is an improvement in all aspects for a

Richard Cuthbert’s patience and persistence paid off culminating with the recommendation for registration of his new Canada Western Red Spring wheat that accumulates less DON (deoxynivalenol), when infected with fusarium head blight. The Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale gave BW980 a thumbs up at its annual meeting in Winnipeg Mar. 2.

Cereals, Crops

New CWRS wheat coming with less DON when hit by fusarium head blight

BW980 almost didn’t make it because in one year of testing, its gluten strength was lower  than the check variety, prompting another year of testing 

By Allan Dawson March 20, 2017

A new Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat that accumulates less deoxynivalenol (DON), the mycotoxin sometimes produced after a fusarium head blight infection, is being recommended for registration. It took an extra year of testing, but at its annual meeting in Winnipeg Mar. 2 the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) gave

Cereals, Comment/Feedback

India is the wild card in global wheat production and consumption

Some estimates are calling for an increase of 15 per cent, to 100 million tonnes for the looming harvest

By Karen Braun March 20, 2017

India will be the first major wheat-growing country to harvest the 2017-18 crop, and most of its wheat will be cut by the time the U.S. Department of Agriculture rolls out its first production estimate in May. Despite the early glimpse this should provide to the wheat market, the Indian government’s data could actually downplay

Grain Markets, Markets

Prairie wheat bids decline with U.S. futures

The Canadian dollar declined about half a cent in value over the past week

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 16, 2017

Spring wheat bids in Western Canada moved lower during the week ended March 10, as spillover pressure from losses in U.S. wheat futures more than made up for the supportive influence of a weaker Canadian dollar. Depending on the location, average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were steady to down $3 per tonne

Grain Markets, Markets, Pulse markets

World soybean supplies are bearish on canola, for now

Traders get a sense that canola supplies may tighten

By Jade Markus March 16, 2017

As Western Canada sits blanketed in snow, canola prices are being driven by oilseed markets elsewhere — a short-term bearish factor. Looking to this year’s upcoming production, supply-and-demand outlooks have caused divergence within the market. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 9 released its world agricultural supply-and-demand estimates (WASDE), bumping up soybean ending

Cereals, News

Just two wheat varieties subject of polling

One variety was tabled and three others withdrawn

By Allan Dawson March 16, 2017

A lack of data sidelined three potential wheat varieties at the recent meeting of the PRCWRT and another was tabled, leaving just two to face voting. They were BW5007 and GP202, intended for the Canada Western Red Spring wheat and Western Special Purpose (CWSP) classes, respectively. BW5007 and GP202 were supported for full and interim

The Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) has streamlined voting on new varieties seeking a recommendation for registration.  The PRCWRT held its annual meeting in Winnipeg Mar. 2. Here ballots are being distributed to members of the PRCWRT’s cultivar voting panel.

Cereals, News

Wheat recommending committee reforms paying efficiency dividends

The process was sparked by a 2013 letter from then agriculture minister Gerry Ritz

By Allan Dawson March 16, 2017

Ordinarily voting over whether to recommend new wheat, rye or triticale varieties for registration can stretch on well into the afternoon. This year it was over before the morning coffee break at the annual meeting of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) in Winnipeg Mar. 2. Many participants said they thought

Daily Network News

Chinese pig farmers test fermented feeds as Beijing weans sector off U.S. soy

Deere settles U.S. right-to-repair lawsuit with $99 million fund, repair commitments

Klassen: Negative margins weigh on Western feeder cattle market

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