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VIDEO: Curbing clubroot in Ontario canola
Canola, Crops, Production

VIDEO: Curbing clubroot in Ontario canola

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Reading Time: < 1 minute During a recent canola growers’ day at Arthur, Ont., Dan Orchard, an agronomist with the Canola Council of Canada, brought his years of experience managing clubroot in Alberta to Ontario growers. Canola fields affected by clubroot were first found last year in Ontario. With some diligence, Orchard said, the problem should be able to be […] Read more
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Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

Reckitt cuts the (French’s) mustard with food business sale

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Reading Time: 2 minutes London | Reuters — U.S. spices maker McCormick and Co. Inc. has won the battle to buy Reckitt Benckiser Group’s North American food business, paying a higher than expected US$4.2 billion to add extra seasonings and sauces. London-listed Reckitt said in April it was reviewing options for the unit, which includes French’s mustard and Frank’s […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola trades on weather

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — It’s the time of year when canola prices closely follow the weather, and while recent rain has caused some losses, the market could hold onto its premium. “In some ways you could say it’s a classic weather market,” said Jon Driedger, senior market analyst at FarmLink Marketing. Prices had gained following dryness […] Read more
BASF’s dicamba production facility in Beaumont, Tex. (BASF.com)
Crops

U.S. state-level dicamba bans temporary

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Reading Time: 2 minutes A ban on dicamba applications in Missouri could end by the weekend, a state agriculture official said Monday. “The intent was never for this to be a long pause,” Missouri Agriculture Director Chris Chinn told the U.S. farm show Agritalk on Monday, after Missouri became the second state to announce such a ban so far […] Read more
A screengrab from a promotional video for Bayer’s Proline fungicide. (Bayer CropScience Canada via YouTube)
Crops, Machinery

Finer nozzle screens linked to Proline plug-ups

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Bayer CropScience is recommending users of its Proline foliar fungicide double-check the nozzles they’re using before spraying, to avoid the “plugging issues” affecting some customers’ sprayers. The company on Wednesday reported a “small” number of cases in which farmers’ sprayers were plugging up during applications of Proline, a broad-spectrum prothioconazole (Group 3) suspension Bayer bills […] Read more
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Crops, Reuters

U.S. proposes cutting biofuels requirements due to ‘market realities’

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Reading Time: 2 minutes New York | Reuters — The U.S. government on Wednesday proposed reducing the volumes of biofuel required to be used in gasoline and diesel in 2018, in a move that could mark the first step towards a broader overhaul to the controversial energy policy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal marked a slight decline […] Read more
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Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola market at mercy of weather

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts climbed higher during the week ended Wednesday, following gains in the U.S. soy market. The dominant November canola contract posted a gain of $28.70 per tonne. That lifted it above major resistance to settle at $510.80. Prices were also boosted by concerns that rising temperatures in Western […] Read more

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