Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Average bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat moved down by an average of $2 to $5 per tonne across Western Canada during the week ended Friday, as large global wheat supplies weighed on the North American market. The highest CWRS prices were still available in Manitoba, but average bids in […] Read more
Wheat bids down again
Late harvest to hurt Prairie winter wheat seeding
Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– Monday (Sept. 15) marks the full coverage crop insurance seeding deadline for winter wheat in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with Alberta farmers having until the 20th or 30th of the month, depending on their location. A late harvest this year, however, has prevented some farmers from getting the crop seeded in time. “Unfortunately […] Read more
The path to bigger wheat yields
Partly it’s genetics. Partly it’s agronomics too. But mainly it’s management
Reading Time: 7 minutes Too often, talk about wheat yields in Eastern Canada turns to what’s happening in places like Kansas, the United Kingdom or northern Europe, as if our best hope to increase our productivity here is to use the ideas they’re developing there. Increasingly, however, the smart money is on taking a harder look at our own […] Read more
Bigger feed wheat supplies to stay put for now
Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Adverse weather conditions over the past month, including snow in Alberta and untimely rains in many other regions of the Prairies, are expected to lead to quality downgrades in Canada’s wheat crop. While a greater percentage of the wheat in the country will likely go to feed than normal, Canada is unlikely […] Read more
Malt barley prospects decline with excess moisture
Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — It looks like this year’s Canadian malt barley crop could be a lot smaller than originally expected. Canada’s 2014-15 barley production was estimated at 7.2 million tonnes by Statistics Canada. This compares to last year’s total of 10.2 million tonnes. That estimate, however, was before persistent rains swept across the Prairies during […] Read more
Prairie wheat bids follow U.S. futures lower
Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) at moved down at most locations across Western Canada during the week ended Friday, despite mounting weather-related concerns across the Prairies, as losses in U.S. futures weighed on prices. The highest CWRS prices were still available in Manitoba, but average bids in the province declined […] Read more
East-west rail movement seen hurting Prairie oats
Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– Inability to secure rail cars destined for the U.S., particularly Minnesota, is seen to be hurting oat producers as quantities of old crop continue to sit idle. Last year’s record-large crop continues to tie up Canada’s two main railways, which also face government regulations requiring them to carry over a million tonnes […] Read more
Agronomy project aims to raise yields 25 per cent
Complex project will study intensive systems approach to crop management
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sheri Strydhorst isn’t doing a lot of fishing this summer. And if her research bears out, you just might be willing to give it up, too. An agronomy research scientist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development in Barrhead, Strydhorst is leading an incredibly complex, multi-layered, multi-site, multi-crop research project designed to find out the extent […] Read more
Prairie wheat bids hold steady
Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Average bids for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat across Western Canada held relatively steady during the week ended Friday, with slight improvements in basis levels generally compensating for declines in the U.S. futures, according to average prices quoted from a cross-section of Prairie elevators. CWRS bids remain the strongest in Manitoba, […] Read more
Fungicide question on wheat is settled
For these farmers, it’s every acre, every year… but always at the right crop stage
Reading Time: 8 minutes Kristjan Hebert knows exactly what his target is when he is spraying fungicide on his wheat. “One hundred per cent,” says the Moosomin, Sask.-area grain grower, who farms with his father. “Our goal is to get it all covered at the heading stage.” That’s a far cry from just a few years ago, when the […] Read more
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