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Single checkoff coming for wheat growers

The new system will fund both wheat variety development and Cigi, say the provincial wheat groups

By Allan Dawson February 9, 2017

Wheat growers can expect to see a simplified checkoff system in the coming crop year. Beginning August 1, 2017, they’ll see checkoffs for the provincial associations combined with the transitional checkoff for funding variety research and market development. Those funds, collected through the temporary Western Canadian Deduction (WCD) checkoff, have since 2012 funded the Western

Szilvia Yuja, a research specialist at the Carrington Research Extension Center, applies wet distillers grains as part of a study on the use of distillers grains as a source of fertilizer.

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NDSU scientists study distillers grains as fertilizer

Wet distillers grains and condensed distillers solubles  increased corn and spring wheat yields

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 6, 2017

Distillers grains could be a source of fertilizer for some crops, according to research at North Dakota State University’s Carrington Research Extension Center. Wet distillers grains and condensed distillers solubles (sometimes referred to as “syrup”) are organic byproducts of ethanol production from corn. Scientists at the Carrington centre have been testing whether wet distillers grains

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Federal forecast sees more oilseed acres, less in grains

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 1, 2017

Canadian farmers are expected to cut back the summerfallow allocation and put more acres in production this spring, planting more of those acres in oilseeds and fewer in grains and pulses. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s market analysis group on Monday released an outlook for principal field crops which, assuming a return to average or trend

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Crop management decisions balance agronomics, economics

Knowing your numbers is the foundation of good decision-making on your farm

By Angela Lovell January 23, 2017

What’s it cost to grow a bushel of wheat, canola, soybeans or corn on your operation? If you can’t answer that question, it’s going to be hard to make informed decisions about how to manage your fields. That’s because production, marketing and management starts with planning, and calculating the cost of production (COP) is the

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Comment: Hard numbers and hard politics

Low crop prices and trade uncertainty are a trouble combination looming for 2017

By Alan Guebert January 16, 2017

The calendar may have changed but the numbers all U.S. farmers will work with this new year are little different from the numbers everyone worked with last year. For example, 2016’s corn production was baked-in last fall and so too are most of 2017’s options. We grew a staggering 15.3 billion bu. last year, will

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Wheat hybrids possible but are benefits big enough?

Some wonder if the money would be better spent on open-pollinated lines while  finding better ways seed companies can get financial returns

By Allan Dawson January 13, 2017

It seems commercializing hybrid wheat has been just over the horizon for years, but it’s now on the market in Europe and Marcus Weidler, head of Seeds Canada, for Bayer CropScience, says the company is developing hybrid wheat for Canada. “Hybrid wheat in Europe is a commercial reality,” Weidler said in a Dec. 15 interview.

Public and private wheat breeding was discussed by a panel at the 3rd Canadian Wheat Symposium in Ottawa Nov. 23. The participants were (l) Ontario farmer Henry Van Ankum, Marcus Weidler, Bayer CropScience, Garth Patterson, Western Grains Research Foundation,  Jim Anderson, wheat breeder, University of Minnesota and Rob Graf, a winter wheat breeder with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

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Public or private? Both are needed, say wheat breeders

Canada’s wheat breeding remains almost all public, while other jurisdictions  have gone all private or to a mixed model 

By Allan Dawson January 6, 2017

[Updated: Jan. 9, 2016]: Making wheat a more competitive crop requires public and private breeder co-operation — and getting a return on investment from farmers buying seed. That was the consensus among panellists discussing wheat breeding at the 3rd Canadian Wheat Symposium here Nov. 23. “My observation would be that ultimately farmers are going to

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Wheat acreage decline connected to demographics, economics

Making wheat more productive won’t likely boost plantings, but it will help keep the crop in farmers’ rotations, says the WGRF’s Garth Patterson

By Allan Dawson January 6, 2017

As wheat plantings decline in Western Canada and elsewhere, some say the fix is transferring the innovation in crops such as canola, soybeans and corn. But there are other factors at play, says Garth Patterson, executive director of the Western Grains Research Foundation. “The markets aren’t treating wheat as favourably as some of the other

Bill Brown, president and CEO of Adjuvants Plus Inc., explained his company’s new product called DONguard during the 8th Canadian Workshop on Fusarium Head Blight Nov. 22 in Ottawa. It’s a biocontrol for fusarium head blight. Brown said he hopes to have DONguard registered in Canada and the U.S. in 18 months.

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New product pits fungus against fungus

If DONguard gets into the plant first, it occupies the space fusarium would take and also consumes invading fusarium, according to the company that hopes to commercialize it

By Allan Dawson December 9, 2016

A new weapon to battle fusarium head blight (FHB) fights fire with fire. The traditional tools have been agronomy, genetic resistance bred into new cultivars and fungicides — the latter sprayed on wheat and other cereal crops to protect them from the potentially devastating fungus disease that can cut yields and quality. But a fungus

The Alberta Wheat Commission wants wheat grading to be less subjective and more objective.

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Wheat Commission asks CGC for changes to wheat grading

The AWC says instrument-measured falling number and DON levels should replace  visual proxies based on sprouting and fusarium-damaged kernels, respectively

By Allan Dawson December 2, 2016

The Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) says it will look into the merits of including falling number and DON measurements as part of official western Canadian wheat grades, as requested by the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) last week. “Our GRL (Grain Research Laboratory) and Industry services officials will establish a team to look at implementing changes

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Single checkoff coming for wheat growers

NDSU scientists study distillers grains as fertilizer

Federal forecast sees more oilseed acres, less in grains

Crop management decisions balance agronomics, economics

Comment: Hard numbers and hard politics

Wheat hybrids possible but are benefits big enough?

Public or private? Both are needed, say wheat breeders

Wheat acreage decline connected to demographics, economics

New product pits fungus against fungus

Wheat Commission asks CGC for changes to wheat grading

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