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Crops varied, but production down overall: tour

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Regina — Crop conditions across Western Canada ranged from good to poor during CWB tours of the Prairie provinces over the week ended July 24, with ‘variability’ the key word in any discussion on this year’s prospects. Production on canola and wheat will be down overall, but perhaps by not as much as originally thought. […] Read more
Mature winter wheat. (Allan Dawson photo)
Canola, Crops, Spring Wheat

CWB tour pegs wheat at 38.9 bushels

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Regina / Reuters —Western Canada spring wheat, durum and canola yields look to fall sharply from last year’s levels, due to hot, dry conditions, leaders of a crop tour said on Friday. The second-annual CWB Market Research Services crop tour pegged spring wheat yield potential in the region at 38.9 bushels per acre on average, down […] Read more
Crops, Forages, Pasture

Look to crop insurance first: Ritz

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Reading Time: 2 minutes While many crops across Western Canada are withering under intensifying drought, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says ad hoc programs are not the answer should producers require assistance. However, tax deferral will be available for affected ranchers. “We don’t need ad hoc (assistance), we’ve got a very comprehensive system of business risk management,” said Gerry Ritz, speaking […] Read more
Crops, Markets

Rain too late to bring back yields: CWB crop tour

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Eastern Saskatchewan — no recovery seen By Jade Markus, Commodity News Service Canada Grenfell, Sask. — As the CWB crop tour sees an increasing number of wheat fields suffering from dryness earlier this season, it brings the question: will rain help? According to farmers, the answer is likely “no.” Fields of wheat in the south […] Read more
Crops

Crops varied in eastern Sask: CWB tour

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Carlyle, Sask. — The effect of this years dry weather is becoming increasingly apparent as the CWB crop tour moves into Saskatchewan. Lack of moisture is visible in southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan, the CWB tour found. However, dryness hasn’t been all bad in some areas — participants from the 2014 crop tour recall a […] Read more
Canola, Markets

CWB pegs canola production at 12.18 mln tonnes

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Commodity news Service Canada — CWB is estimating the Canadian canola crop will produce 12.18 million tonnes in 2015/16 (Aug/Jul), according to a supply and demand table released via the Market Research Services Twitter account on Wednesday. The projection is below a previous estimate from the company of 12.60 to 13.00 million tonnes, which was […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Spring wheat yields puny in dry Alberta: CWB tour

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Lethbridge/Reuters — Spring wheat yields measured less than half of last year’s results in drought-stricken southeastern Alberta, but were on track to set a record high in southern Manitoba, during a Canadian crop tour that saw the results of wildly contrasting weather. The tour organized by CWB Market Research Services is travelling on three routes […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Reuters

Manitoba crops decline moving west: CWB tour

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Brandon, Man. — As this year’s CWB crop tour moves west through Manitoba, crops have started looking thinner as the area has been drier than in the eastern part of the province.. Canola around Killarney doesn’t look good compared to its eastern Manitoba counterparts. Canola in western Manitoba is still flowering. The later bloom is […] Read more
Stripe rust.
Canola, Cereals, Crops

Only upside to drought? Less spraying and less risk of crop diseases

But diseases like stripe rust, tan spot, or sclerotinia could be an issue if there’s been decent moisture

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Reading Time: 4 minutes This summer’s dry growing conditions in Alberta have at least one silver lining — lower levels of disease in fields. “In those areas that have had very little rainfall this summer, you’re probably looking at limited development of diseases,” federal research scientist Kelly Turkington said in a July 6 interview. “Of more concern would simply […] Read more
Crops

Saskatchewan farm groups talk transportation

Transport review won't be complete until after the election

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Saskatoon — Grain transportation should be an election issue, says Cam Goff, chair of the Saskatchewan Barley Development Commission, which hosted the Farmers’ Forum on Grain Transportation here Monday along with the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission. The forum coincided with Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s announcement in Winnipeg of […] Read more

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