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Stripe rust can cause significant yield losses for wheat growers. (Yue Jin photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Pearce: Stripe rust in winter wheat is Ontario’s biggest threat

By Ralph Pearce May 30, 2016

Reading Time: 3 minutes Normally, stripe rust in winter wheat isn’t a huge problem for growers in Eastern Canada, and particularly in Ontario — at least, not at this stage of the growing season — but the 2016 growing season isn’t shaping up to be “normal” either. For now, the immediate challenge before growers is to get out and […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

Bimbo to shut Canada Bread’s North Bay plant

By Country Guide Staff May 28, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada Bread, the Canadian arm of Mexican baked-goods giant Grupo Bimbo, plans to close its bakery at North Bay, Ont. later this summer. The company announced Wednesday it will begin to gradually wind down operations, transfer the plant’s work to its other bakeries in Quebec and Ontario and shut down the bakery effective Aug. 5. […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets

Lethbridge feed barley’s spring rally muted

By Jade Markus May 16, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Lethbridge feed barley should be seeing its largest premium over fall and winter months, but so far this year the market’s spring rally has been limited. “This year all we’ve seen is a $5 to $10 per tonne move higher,” said Jim Beusekom, analyst at Market Place Commodities. “So it’s pretty minimal […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat, Weather, Winter Wheat

Saskatchewan wheat crop enters crucial phase

By Dave Sims May 13, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– Freezing temperatures are raising tensions for wheat growers in Saskatchewan as this year’s crop looks to survive a late blast of winter weather. The mercury dipped below 0 C in Saskatchewan on Thursday morning and Friday morning. Speaking Thursday afternoon, a regional crop specialist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Shannon Friesen, […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Forages

Pest Patrol: Are there any new insect pests that we should be alert for?

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

By Mike Cowbrough May 12, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes The following information was provided by Tracey Baute, field crop entomologist, OMAFRA. Cereal leaf beetles feed on wheat, oat, corn, forages and grassy weeds. Spring plantings are most attractive, particularly late plantings, though some winter wheat can be infested in the spring. Both adults and larvae cause damage by chewing long strips of tissue between […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Prairie spring wheat bids rise with dry weather

By Dave Sims May 9, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Cash spring wheat bids across Western Canada improved during the week ended Friday, with prices receiving support from dry weather conditions in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Weakness in the Canadian dollar, which fell from the US80-cent mark to the mid-77-cent range between April 29 and Friday, added to the upside. Depending on the […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Minneapolis leads U.S. wheat futures trifecta

By Jade Markus May 3, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Minneapolis wheat prices are gaining on those at other U.S. futures markets, as traders expect reduced acres this year. But the opposite is true for the Kansas City exchange as the expectation of high production weighs, and Chicago markets are moving on technical trading. Minneapolis Grain Exchange — “We’re keeping an eye […] Read more

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich (l) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. (Government.ru)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Russia seen extending wheat export tax for 2016-17

By Reuters April 28, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes Moscow | Reuters — Russia is likely to extend its wheat export tax for the 2016-17 marketing year, which starts on July 1, because the levy is at a minimum level under current market conditions, traders and analysts said. The government has also indicated it is unlikely to change the tax ahead of the next […] Read more

Growers need to return wheat to its million-acre scale to help with diseases like fusarium, as well as quality issues.

Cereals, Crops

If it’s wheat, spray for fusarium

This disease has become a perennial issue — and it will be for years to come

By Ralph Pearce April 26, 2016

Reading Time: 5 minutes With today’s tight margins, there are times when it can make sense to play the odds in order to cut spray costs, at least until there’s visible damage to the crop. But with fusarium head blight in wheat, it’s just not advisable. Peter Johnson believes it’s time to adopt the same caution with fusarium as […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Oats

Pressure on oat prices sends farmers scouting other crops

By Dave Sims April 26, 2016

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Lukewarm prices for oats, coupled with dry conditions in Alberta and soggy conditions in Manitoba, are crimping acreage this year. Generally known as one of the hardier crops around, oats haven’t been setting any record highs on price charts, resulting in a forecast of 11 per cent less acreage in Canada. “The […] Read more

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