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Crown rust is considered one of the worst crop diseases since its strains can mutate to acquire new virulence and resistance.
Cereals, Crops

Crown rust comes after oats

Part of the management challenge comes from its sources and its choice as a cover crop

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Reading Time: 5 minutes In a production agriculture world where corn and soybeans have dominated the scene for much of the last 25 years, oats are supposedly one of the forgotten crops. There have been attempts to revive the grain’s standing, including the formation of the Oat and Barley Council of Ontario back in the early 2000s, as well […] Read more
Cereals, Crops, Dairy Cattle

Ukraine farmers examine Canadian agriculture co-ops

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Reading Time: < 1 minute A delegation of Ukrainian farmers were visiting agriculture co-ops this week, looking to see if the approach can benefit their grain businesses in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. In Ontario they visited Agris Co-op and Great Lakes Grain in Chatham, Agrico fertilizer storage outside London, an Agromart retail operation in Wellburn, and the Donkers’ dairy goat farm […] Read more
Harpinder Randhawa, spring wheat and triticale breeder with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Lethbridge, stands in a field of soft white spring wheat. He is working on soft white spring varieties with improved resistance to disease and pre-harvest sprouting.
Cereals, Crops

Soft white spring wheat spreads east

Ethanol drives new demand while research adapts SWSW to new regions

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Until relatively recently, there were few producers outside the irrigation belt of southern Alberta who had ever heard of, much less planted, soft white spring wheat (SWSW). However, backed by 50 years of research, the wheat class is suddenly showing a new potential to be grown on more acres and in more areas, and for […] Read more
(Screengrab from RobinHood.ca)
Cereals, Crops

Robin Hood flour pulled in E. coli probe

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Federal health officials investigating over two dozen cases of E. coli poisoning across Canada are warning consumers to get rid of a certain batch of Robin Hood flour. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Tuesday issued a food recall warning for Robin Hood All-Purpose Flour, Original, distributed in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. […] Read more
(Doug Wilson photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Oats

Yorkton, Sask. oat plant moves on major expansion

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Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S. processing firm Grain Millers Inc. is pressing ahead on the second phase of a previously announced expansion at its Yorkton, Sask. oat processing plant. The company on Friday announced the “initiation” of the second phase of the expansion, which overall is expected to cost $100 million and boost the plant’s annual output by 80,000 […] Read more
The joint GFO/SGS Canada lab opened in Guelph in July 2016. (GFO/SGS Canada video image)
Crops, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Ontario cereals lab filling nationwide demand

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Grain Farmers of Ontario and SGS Canada took a risk in creating the Grains Analytical Testing Laboratory, as a partnership bringing wheat testing to a province with a comparatively small wheat crop. After eight months, and a first harvest of wheat analytics, the Guelph lab’s manager says they have found there is interest in the […] Read more
Location of the bread and durum wheat fields surveyed in 20 crop districts across Saskatchewan, from 2001 to 2012.
Cereals, Crops

Is climate change making leaf diseases worse?

Durum quality took a beating last year, and climate change could see more of the same

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Reading Time: 3 minutes It is difficult — even impossible — to define the precise relationship between climate change and disease incidence and severity in Western Canada. But new research from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Swift Current Research and Development Centre is contributing a few pieces to the puzzle. Research scientist Myriam Fernandez says breeding for resistance to the […] Read more
(Rahr.com)
Barley, Crops, Reuters

Ameropa to shut malting barley trading firm Interbrau

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hamburg | Reuters — Swiss-based grain trading group Ameropa AG said Thursday it will end its involvement in malting barley trading and close its Hamburg-based malting barley trading house Interbrau GmbH at the end of 2017. “This decision is mainly driven by the fact that the malting barley market did not develop as Ameropa had […] Read more
Durum wheat. (Gipsa.usda.gov)
Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Durum lacks momentum ahead of competing harvests

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Canadian durum prices are at a standstill as the market looks to upcoming production, while domestic crops act as a “wild card,” one Winnipeg-based analyst says. “The durum market is certainly quiet right now. We’re kind of in that period where we’re in a lull,” said Jerry Klassen, manager of the Canadian […] Read more

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