Canola, Crops

How to keep sclerotinia infection to less than five per cent

Posted 1 day ago by Jay Whetter

Crops

Stay calm and spray on

Posted 3 days ago by Clare Stanfield

Crops

Apply your fungicide where it matters

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Jennifer Barber

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  Disease considerations for a late and wet spring

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• Corn, Crops, Soybeans

  Soybean and corn disease threats in Eastern Canada

  Another crop season is upon us and certain disease threats stand out in soybeans and corn in Eastern Canada. “SDS…

  May 11, 2020

• Crops, Soybeans

  Pest Patrol: Weed control in IP soybeans

  For more than a decade now, the University of Guelph and OMAFRA have been comparing the level of weed control,…

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• Cereals, Crops

  New cereal fungicide seeks to carve out its own niche

  In the fight against diseases in winter wheat in Eastern Canada, the agri-food industry has done a remarkable job in…

  May 5, 2020

• Crops

  What’s going to ‘bug’ you in 2020?

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• Cereals, Crops

  Pushing the wheat seeding envelope

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Canola, Crops, Peas

Plant protein processor backed for expansion

Lenders arrange up to $85 million for Merit Functional Foods

By Dave Bedard 5 hours ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes The money has been lined up to fund a major expansion for a Winnipeg pea and canola protein processing plant that’s still being built. Merit Functional Foods Corp. announced May 4 it has secured a debt financing package of up to $85 million from “a syndicate of lenders” including Export Development Canada, Farm Credit Canada […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery

Rite Way proposes to buy Morris Industries

Regina farm equipment maker draws up letter of intent

By Dave Bedard 15 hours ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Cash-crunched seeding equipment maker Morris Industries has been handed a letter of intent to purchase, from a Saskatchewan suitor with a farm equipment company of its own. Calgary consultancy Alvarez and Marsal said in a report Tuesday it received a letter of intent for a “proposed sale transaction” from Superior Farms Solutions Ltd. (SFSL), the […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat up as weather, currency spark short-covering

Hong Kong row tempers hopes of China demand for U.S. soy

By Karl Plume 19 hours ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures jumped on Thursday to a five-week high as a weaker dollar, forecasts for hotter, drier weather in the Midwest corn belt and a further rebound in ethanol production triggered bargain buying and short-covering by managed funds. Wheat futures also rallied on expanding dryness across the Plains wheat belt […] Read more

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Crops, Reuters

Farm workers cram daily into U.S.-Mexico border tunnel

Labourers line up hundreds deep for hours despite contagion risk

By Laura Gottesdiener 20 hours ago

Reading Time: 3 minutes Mexicali | Reuters — Every night, hundreds of farm workers in Mexico crowd for hours in a cramped tunnel to a border station to reach day jobs in Imperial Valley, California, with no social distancing enforced despite coronavirus cases saturating hospitals in the region. By 2 a.m. on Tuesday, tense men and women with cloth […] Read more

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Canola, Crops, Reuters

Huawei extradition ruling could unleash more Chinese backlash

More punitive trade measures expected

By David Ljunggren, Steve Scherer 21 hours ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ottawa | Reuters — A British Columbia court ruling that could permit the extradition of a senior Huawei executive to the U.S. leaves Canada vulnerable to further retaliation from Beijing, analysts said. Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on Wednesday lost a challenge to a U.S. bid to extradite her to face bank fraud charges, […] Read more

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Barley, Corn, Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Feed weekly outlook: Cheaper corn to temper rising barley bids

Lack of farmer selling a factor in bids

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm 22 hours ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Rising feed barley prices in Western Canada may be nearing their upper limit, as end users look to add more cheaper corn to their rations. “The higher that barley and wheat get, the more attractive corn gets,” said Mike Fleischhauer of Eagle Commodities in Lethbridge. “If barley and wheat go any higher, we’ll […] Read more

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Canola, Crops

How to keep sclerotinia infection to less than five per cent

New research shows fungicide applied at or just after 20 per cent flowering is still the best way to stop sclerotinia stem rot from shredding canola profits

By Jay Whetter 1 day ago

Reading Time: 6 minutes Like a detective piecing together the timeline of a crime, Dwayne Hegedus has played and replayed the sequence of events from when a sclerotinia-infested petal drops onto a canola leaf to the all-is-lost cleaving of the cuticle. The scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Saskatoon now knows, genetically, what arrows the pathogen shoots and […] Read more

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Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Extradition ruling not the only anchor on canola

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 2 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Although ICE July canola finished $1.30 per tonne lower Wednesday, at $463.50, following a ruling on the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Wayne Palmer said there’s much more to the decline in the price. While Palmer, a trader with Exceed Grain in Winnipeg, called the ruling “a nail in canola’s coffin,” he […] Read more

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Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Crop commodities rangebound

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm 2 days ago

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Favourable growing conditions across most of the U.S. — and a good start to the growing season — have kept commodity prices on the Chicago Board of Trade locked in a sideways range. In the crop progress report released Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. corn crop was approximately […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on slowed planting progress

Wheat rangebound as Northern Hemisphere weather watched

By Karl Plume 2 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures firmed on Wednesday as a slowdown in plantings in the Midwest and forecasts for more disruptive weather lifted prices to two-week highs, although technical selling kept a lid on gains. Corn also edged higher after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported slower-than-anticipated planting in a weekly crop […] Read more

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