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In his latest Call of the Land weekly interview, Alberta Agriculture pest specialist Scott Meers has mostly good news on insect pressure in the province.Meers says four weeks into the six-week monitoring period for bertha armyworms, trap counts are "really low" with one exception in the Fort Vermilion area. He cautions that there could still[...]

Seeding operations in Alberta are generally complete with the only exceptions in the south, where less than five per cent of the intended crop still needs to be put into the ground, according to a provincial crop specialist. "That area has been extremely wet and has prevented producers from seeding the last of the crops,"[...]

Alberta farmers are nearly finished with their spring seeding operations, having made quick progress in the past few weeks, according to a crop specialist with the province's Ag-Info Centre. With planting wrapping up, fields in the northern part of the province are now in need of some rainfall, while excess moisture is causing some concerns[...]

Farmers in waterlogged parts of eastern Saskatchewan are nearly out of time for fields to dry in time for planting, after steady rains in the past few days, provincial government officials said Wednesday. "Every second day for the past week, it seems like it's been raining and raining," said Daphne Cruise, regional crops specialist with[...]

Farmers in flooded Western Canada look to plant at least two weeks later than normal as average to heavy snowpack melts on saturated fields and causes rivers to overflow. The most optimistic scenario would see farmers in Saskatchewan and Alberta, the two biggest producers of wheat and canola, start planting in early May, assuming that[...]

(Resource News International) -- With drought conditions in Russia causing wheat prices to soar, producers in Ontario are preparing to sow what could be the largest winter wheat crop in their province's history. The previous record for winter wheat acres seeded in Ontario is 1.2 million. Martin Harry, eastern marketing manager for SeCan at Ingersoll,[...]

Fruit juice maker Sun-Rype has bought one of its major U.S. suppliers in Washington state for an undisclosed sum. The Kelowna, B.C. firm announced Friday it had a deal effective Sept. 30 to buy the business and assets of Yakama Juice of Selah, Wash., near Yakima, from the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama[...]

The heir to about $67 million in excess grain handling revenue from Canada's two main railways now plans to get "more directive" in the types of grain research it will fund. And the Western Grains Research Foundation Endowment Fund on Thursday laid out its priorities for what it calls a "directed research" program. Previously, the[...]

(Resource News International) -- Wet weather conditions have slowed the development of grain and oilseed crops across the central and southern regions of Alberta, according to a provincial crop specialist. "Crop development was probably the furthest ahead in the northern growing areas of the Peace River district," said Harry Brook, a crop specialist with the[...]

(Resource News International) -- Recent rainfall across some of the driest areas of Alberta should come as welcome news to the province's farmers. And forecasts call for widespread precipitation for much of the province over the next week, a provincial specialist noted. Harry Brook, a crops specialist with the Alberta Ag-Info Centre at Stettler, said[...]