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AAFC sees more wheat, less canola planted

Canadian farmers will plant more wheat and a bit less canola in 2013, Canada’s Agriculture Department said in its latest planting forecast, which offered a slightly reduced wheat-planting estimate from the previous month. Attractive prices and a modest shift away from canola and other crops should entice farmers into planting more wheat, according to the
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Which crop is your biggest money-maker?

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Based on MAFRI cost-of-production estimates, winter wheat tops the charts 
followed by soybeans, sunflowers, and canola

With highly variable costs and prices, choosing the most profitable crop to grow each spring is a bit like throwing darts at a moving target. But farmers who seeded winter wheat last fall will be pleased to hear that their dart is likely to land dead centre, says Gary Smart, a farm management specialist with
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Arysta launches broadleaf/grass/burndown combo

Arysta LifeScience has launched Inferno Duo Herbicide for spring wheat growers in Canada. Arysta says it combines the enhanced broadleaf activity of tribenuron (the same active ingredient in Express SG) with broadleaf and longer-lasting soil activity on grasses of flucarbazone. Inferno Duo also provides wide-spectrum burndown when mixed with glyphosate. “Together with glyphosate, Inferno Duo
Cereals, Crops, News

New WCWGA president

Staff / The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association has elected Levi Wood of Pense, Sask. as its new president. Wood, who farms with his father on a fifth-generation farm, replaces Kevin Bender, who stepped down after four years at the association’s convention in January. Wood graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a degree in
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Anxiety rises over possible Prairie seeding delays

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ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted good gains during the week ended March 22, as solid end-user demand, the weaker Canadian dollar, a slowdown in farmer selling, bullish technical signals, ongoing concerns over tightening old-crop supplies, new concerns over possible planting delays this spring, and logistical issues moving soybeans out of South America all served
Cereals, Crops

New varieties aim to push CDC Falcon from its perch

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As of Aug. 1, 2014, CDC Falcon moves to the Canada Western General 
Purpose class from Canada Western Red Winter

Winter wheat growers in Manitoba have some new options to consider after their overwhelming favourite, CDC Falcon, moves to the Canada Western General Purpose (CWGP) class Aug. 1, 2014. That class is usually composed of feed and ethanol feedstock wheats, which don’t fetch the premiums paid for milling and baking wheats in the Canada Western
Cereals, Oilseeds, Opinion

Letters, March 28, 2013

Farmers well represented by commodity groups I am replying to your recent article regarding farmer’s voice splintered. I am a grain farmer from Alberta growing wheat, canola and peas and have been involved in the canola and newly formed wheat commission in this province for the past 20 years. I take exception to your comments
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

U.S. corn plantings seen at highest since 1936

Reuters / U.S. farmers may plant 97.43 million acres of corn this year, up 0.3 per cent from last year, which would be the largest corn area since 1936, according to a Farm Futures magazine survey. The survey of 1,750 U.S. growers also showed farmers intend to plant a record 79.09 million acres of soybeans, up

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