Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Grain Commission’s Eastern Standards Committee has released new standard samples and standard prints (photographs) for peas, pea beans and lentils. The committee also recommended a new guide for No. 1 Canada Eastern Red (Winter), Mildew Guide. Standard samples and standard prints represent the subjective visual grading factors that are most common in a […] Read more
New standard samples for Eastern grains
New standard samples for Western grains
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Grain Commission’s Western Standards Committee has released new standard samples and standard prints (photographs) for several grades of CWRS, peas, pea beans and lentils. Standard samples and standard prints represent the subjective visual grading factors that are most common in a given year. Standard samples and standard prints reflect the proportion of such […] Read more
Tomato and tobacco growth regulator registered
Reading Time: < 1 minute Syngenta Crop Protection Canada has picked up registration for a growth regulator that also works to boost natural defences against bacteria and mould infections in plants such as tomatoes and tobacco. The company on Dec. 15 announced approval for Actigard, a plant growth regulator billed as offering protection against bacterial speck and bacterial spot in […] Read more
Folicur label expanded to oats and barley
Reading Time: < 1 minute Bayer CropScience’s wheat crop fungicide Folicur has been reformulated and rebranded for use on oat and barley crops. The new formulation, dubbed Folicur EW, is registered to suppress fusarium head blight and control assorted foliar diseases such as rust, tan spot and septoria leaf blotch, the company said in a recent release. Growers using the […] Read more
Agrium sees A$40 million in synergies in AWB purchase
Reading Time: < 1 minute Agrium says that its proposed purchase of Australian grain handler and agri-retailer AWB Ltd. would be “significantly accretive” to earnings in the first year, and that it could generate A$40 million in synergies annually. “We believe we will be able to generate synergies of A$40-million or more on an annual basis, with limited synergies realized […] Read more
CWB says export barley market attractive through GPCs
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Wheat Board has issued a special feed barley market update alerting farmers to the recent strength in export prices. The CWB said that for the past two years, barley from Black Sea exporters have dominated world feed markets, but an export ban from Russia and one expected from Ukraine have driven prices sharply […] Read more
Quebec looks to get more local products on grocery shelves
Reading Time: < 1 minute Quebec Minister of Agriculture Claude Bechard has announced the establishment of five working groups to increase the presence of local foods on Quebec grocery shelves. “We are launching today a framework of meetings that will encourage an exchange, a better understanding of the constraints and expectations of different partners in the food chain and, hopefully, […] Read more
Manitoba continues to struggle with rain
Reading Time: < 1 minute Unwanted rain is once again a theme of Manitoba Agriculture’s weekly crop report, with accumulations of 20 to as high as 100 mm reported in some areas. The rain interrupted or halted harvest in most areas. Many later-seeded crops are still maturing. Disease incidence is reported higher than normal, including from fusarium head blight which […] Read more
Viterra declines comment on AWB
Reading Time: < 1 minute Viterra is well-positioned for further deals and continues to seek them, but is declining comment on whether it has any interest in bidding for AWB Ltd. “We certainly wouldn’t and couldn’t comment on our strategic initiatives,” Viterra CEO Mayo Schmidt said in a Reuters report Aug. 23. Viterra is already a major player in Australia […] Read more
Economist sees strong cattle prices for three to five years
Reading Time: < 1 minute Consumers may be eating less beef, but there is still good news in the cattle business, says Chris Hurt, an extension economist at Purdue University. In a Purdue release, Hurt says that after several years of financial difficulty, producers show no interest in rebuilding the herd. As a result, beef supplies will continue to decline […] Read more
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