Reading Time: < 1 minute Wet conditions delaying seeding operations across Western Canada this spring could leave wheat crops more susceptible to fusarium if the moisture continues through the growing season. Fusarium head blight is a fungal disease that attacks cereal crops, especially wheat and barley. It is usually most prevalent in Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan, but moist conditions in […] Read more
Conditions raise concerns over fusarium on Prairies
Prairie grasshopper forecasts dialed back in wet weather
Reading Time: 2 minutes The excessive moisture causing seeding delays across much of Western Canada should be good for at least one thing: the wet weather will be detrimental to grasshoppers across the Prairies, according to insect specialists. However, actual populations will depend on weather conditions in June and through the summer. Grasshopper forecasts for the three Prairie provinces, […] Read more
StatsCan confirms tight canola stocks
Reading Time: 2 minutes A record-setting domestic crush pace and solid export demand cut into Canadian canola supplies a little more than expected, according to the stocks report Statistics Canada released Friday. Supplies of most grains and oilseeds were tighter on March 31, 2011, than they were at the same point the previous year, the federal statistics agency said. […] Read more
StatsCan seen confirming tighter stocks Friday
Reading Time: 2 minutes Statistics Canada is expected to confirm tightening supplies of most grains and oilseeds, aside from wheat, in the agency’s latest stocks in all positions report, to be released Friday. The report is to show the stocks being held on-farm and in commercial positions as of March 31. “From a general assessment, we should have tighter […] Read more
Good barley bids available, but activity slow
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cash barley bids in the key Lethbridge, Alta. feeding area may have been seeing a little strength over the past month, but wet conditions in the area are limiting both willing buyers and available sellers. Jim Beusekom of Market Place Commodities said muddy conditions at most feedlots are causing many operations to look at getting […] Read more
Man. farmers looking at corn, weather still key
Reading Time: 2 minutes The ongoing “fight for acres” in the U.S., attempting to bring in more corn plantings, has also spilled north of the border, with Manitoba corn growers looking to increase their area of the profitable crop as well. However, corn needs a long growing season, and wet conditions now seen across much of the province could […] Read more
Northern flow of U.S. DDGS stalled
Reading Time: < 1 minute High prices and ample supplies of domestic feed grains are limiting the amount of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) finding their way into western Canadian cattle rations from the US. That situation is now expected to continue as long as the price spread between domestic wheat and barley and the U.S. imports remains wide. […] Read more
Barley cash bids edge higher
Reading Time: < 1 minute Feed barley bids in the key Lethbridge, Alta. feedlot zone are trending higher, but ample feed wheat supplies should limit the potential upside. Seasonal issues were behind the firmness, as road bans and the fact that farmers will soon be turning their attention to spring seeding helped underpin barley bids, said Dave Guichon, president of […] Read more
Parties support ag sector, differ on details
Reading Time: 2 minutes The agriculture policies of all five major Canadian political parties were put front and centre in a debate hosted by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in Ottawa on Monday. All of the parties were in agreement that agriculture was important to the country, but there was some disagreement on just how the government should be […] Read more
Rising prices may encourage more oats acres
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oats prices at both the Chicago Board of Trade and in Western Canada have rallied over the past week, which could help bring some more acres to the crop this spring. However, competition from other crops and weather issues at seeding time could still sway the market. After weather issues in Saskatchewan hampered Canadian production […] Read more
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