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• Cereals, Crops

  Careful grain sampling key when looking for mycotoxins

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  January 7, 2020

• Cereals, Crops

  Public cereal crop breeding rebounds

  There’s so much to like about cereals in Eastern Canada, whether you’re talking winter or spring wheat, oats, barley or…

  December 23, 2019

• Crops

  Controlling scentless chamomile with herbicides

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  December 17, 2019

• Crops, Markets

  What to expect from grain companies premiums and discounts

  As harvest continued late into this fall, Prairie grain buyers continued to sort out what they would pay for this…

  December 16, 2019

• Canola, Crops

  Hope ahead for more durable clubroot resistance

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Crops, Markets

AAFC forecasts more wheat, less canola seeded in spring

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm 1 day ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers will seed more wheat and less canola in the 2020 growing season, according to the first supply/demand estimates for the 2020-21 marketing year, released Thursday by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Total seeded wheat area is forecast to rise to 25.77 million acres, from 25.02 million the previous year. Production is forecast […] Read more

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Barley, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Temperatures rise, Prairie bids cool down

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm 1 day ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Feed grain bids in southern Alberta are cooling down as temperatures warm up after a bitter cold spell earlier in the month. After dealing with temperatures in the -20 C to -34 C range over much of the week ended Jan. 17, conditions in the key Lethbridge feeding area have flipped the other […] Read more

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Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Don’t expect China to buy if Huawei exec goes free

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 1 day ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola traders have been keeping a close eye on this week’s extradition hearings for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. The hearing is to determine whether Meng will be extradited to the U.S., which requested her arrest by Canadian authorities in December 2018. China, in the wake of that arrest, detained […] Read more

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Crops, Weather

Favourable growing conditions forecast for major ag regions

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm 1 day ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Canadian producers looking for challenging growing conditions elsewhere in the world to prop up commodity prices may be disappointed during the 2020 growing season. South America “If you’re looking for any help from South America for your canola or soybeans or corn, you’d better look somewhere else,” Drew Lerner, president of World Weather […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn futures hit three-month high on export demand

Profit-taking sparks pullback in CBOT wheat

By Tom Polansek 1 day ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures topped a three-month high on Thursday on improved export demand, while wheat futures traded near a 1-1/2 year high reached a session earlier. Soybeans eased to a one-month low as traders awaited signs of Chinese purchases of U.S. crops in the wake of last week’s initial trade agreement […] Read more

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Corn, Crops, Reuters, Weather

Zimbabwe says grain stocks running out after drought

By Reuters 2 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe has only 100,000 tonnes of grain in its strategic reserves, enough to last just over a month, as the southern African nation suffers the effects of a severe drought, according to the agriculture minister. More than half the country’s population faces food shortages after maize harvests halved last year. The […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Peas, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Uncertainty pervades markets

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm 2 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — The price spread between green and yellow peas continues to widen in Western Canada, but whether or not that trend will continue remains to be seen. Numerous outside factors lend a general air of uncertainty to the pulse market, according to a pulse trader. Green peas typically trade at a premium to yellow […] Read more

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Corn, Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn set to rally

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm 2 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade may be due for a rally. The March corn contract hit $3.92 per bushel three times earlier in the month, facing stiff resistance to break higher (all figures US$). Prices established lows last week, around $3.7525. “I would like to see resistance be taken to […] Read more

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Crops, Weather

Variable Prairie weather makes for uncertain spring ahead

If nothing else, a rainy harvest season helped replenish topsoil moisture

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm 2 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Late-season rains wreaked havoc on the 2019 harvest season but were helpful in restoring topsoil moisture to key growing regions in the Prairies. Since snow coverage has been variable across the Prairies so far in 2020, however, the growing season may get off to a rocky start. “If we take a look at […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Robust global demand supports Chicago wheat

By Tom Polansek 2 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Profit-taking pulled down Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures on Wednesday after robust global demand and concerns about tightening supplies pushed the most-active contract to its highest price since August 2018. Soybean futures also ended lower, while nearby corn futures inched higher. Traders in the farm markets continued to wait for […] Read more

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