Canola, Crops

Hope ahead for more durable clubroot resistance

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Your 2020 agricultural calendar of winter events

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Must Reads

• Cereals, Crops

  Marketing strategies for your 2019 crop

  After several years of high-quality crops across most of the Prairies, this fall’s poor harvesting conditions mean many farmers have…

  December 4, 2019

• Crops

  Finding the value of cover crops for Western Canada

  When Yvonne Lawley wrote her research proposal for a study of cover crops, she was specific about the wording of…

  December 2, 2019

• Crops

  Pest Patrol: Dealing with waterhemp and Canada fleabane

  In last month’s #PestPatrol, we discussed options for the control of glyphosate-resistant waterhemp. However, across the province, there appears to…

  November 26, 2019

• Canola, Crops

  Taking a long-term look at agronomy for canola

  Canola-based rotation systems can improve long-term sustainability by using less energy and storing carbon below the ground, but keeping them…

  November 25, 2019

• Crops

  Re-setting the mind-set on cover crops

  Much of what is known about specific practices in agriculture has been constructed then modified and sometimes deconstructed altogether. It’s…

  November 21, 2019

• Canola, Crops

  Growing canola in Canada’s east

  When talk to turns to “alternative crops,” there are several familiar options that come up in the conversation: oats, barley,…

  November 18, 2019

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Prairie cash wheat: Mid-December bids mixed

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm 1 day ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Hard red spring wheat bids in Western Canada were mixed during the week ended Thursday, with small gains in some areas and small losses in others as the market adjusted in a narrow range. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS, 13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices were down by as much as $2 […] Read more

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Canola, Crops, Markets

Visible canola supplies largest in three years

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm 1 day ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Solid farmer deliveries into the commercial pipeline saw visible Canadian canola supplies hit their highest level in three years, according to the latest Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) data for the week ended Sunday. Total visible supplies of the oilseed came in at 1.584 million tonnes, which was the highest of the marketing year-to-date […] Read more

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Crops

CN reports grain movement back at pre-strike pace

By Allan Dawson 1 day ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian National Railway’s grain shipping is back to its pre-strike pace, the railway says. “By the second week of December (week 19), CN returned to shipping at peak levels, as well as taking on all customer hopper demand for the second and third weeks of December,” Montreal-based CN said in a release Thursday. “Despite a […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: China trade news provides lift

By Julie Ingwersen 1 day ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures touched a three-week high on Friday after Washington and Beijing announced a “phase one” trade deal, but the market pared gains amid uncertainty about the details of the pact, including the size of any potential Chinese agricultural purchases. As part of the agreement, Beijing committed to buy an […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Reuters

Chinese officials, Trump agree to tariff rollbacks

By David Lawder, Stella Qiu 2 days ago

Reading Time: 3 minutes Beijing/Washington | Reuters — The United States and China cooled their trade war on Friday, announcing a “phase one” agreement that reduces some U.S. tariffs in exchange for increased Chinese purchases of U.S. farm goods. Chinese officials offered no specific details on the amount of U.S. agricultural goods Beijing had agreed to buy, a key […] Read more

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Crops, Reuters

K+S considering sale of stakes in potash, salt businesses

By Reuters 2 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute Frankfurt | Reuters — German potash and salt miner K+S said it was looking into selling stakes in its North American businesses because an ongoing cost cutting push would not yield enough savings to reach its debt reduction target. A company spokesman said K+S was considering selling a stake in its Bethune, Sask. potash mine […] Read more

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Crops, Markets

Variable yields supportive for mustard prices

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm 2 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada’s principal field crop production report last week estimated a significant drop in Canada’s 2019 mustard production. In September, the agency estimated Canadian mustard would total about 141,000 tonnes. However, due to challenging growing conditions and a slight reduction in acreage, the StatsCan estimates released Friday were revised downward to 134,600 tonnes. […] Read more

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Crops

G3 plans two more Prairie elevators

By GFM Staff 2 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute Prairie grain handler G3 plans to add another 76,000 tonnes of grain handling capacity in southwestern Saskatchewan and eastern Alberta. The Winnipeg company announced Thursday it will start work in early 2020 on new grain elevators at Swift Current, Sask. and Vermilion, Alta. for completion in 2021. Both new elevators are to be built with […] Read more

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Canola, Crops

Hope ahead for more durable clubroot resistance

A combination of two resistance genes shows promise against multiple pathotypes

By Clare Stanfield 2 days ago

Reading Time: 3 minutes Since it was first discovered in Alberta in the early 2000s, clubroot has proven a wily opponent for plant pathologists and breeders. Back then, researchers identified a handful of clubroot pathotypes, mostly minor, and one major one that was responsible for most infections and yield loss in Western Canada. Plant breeders focused on that and […] Read more

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Barley, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Grains pressured by lower demand

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm 2 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Bids for feed grains have backed off previous highs as feedlots in Western Canada are covered into the New Year. “Now they’re bidding January and forward,” said Allen Pirness of Market Place Commodities in Lethbridge. Bids for feed barley and feed wheat delivered from January to March were around $220 per tonne, according […] Read more

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