Reading Time: 4 minutes [UPDATED: Nov. 22, 2019] The ‘harvest from hell’ has resulted in one of the worst years in recent memory for sprout damage. That’s pushed down falling numbers and — since grain buyers have different approaches to handling this issue — increased the need for farmers to know the falling numbers for their wheat. But if […] Read more
Knowing your wheat’s falling number critical this year
Prairie cash wheat: Bids steady to lower
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were lower for the week ended Thursday. Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat had larger declines, while Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) and durum (CWAD) were steady to lower. The Canadian dollar dropped almost a half cent during the week. Average CWRS (13.5 per cent protein) wheat prices […] Read more
Feed weekly outlook: Prolonged Prairie harvest pushes up grain prices
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — A seemingly never-ending harvest across the Prairies has been responsible for a $10-$15 per tonne jump this month in feed grain prices, said Glen Loyns, general manager of JGL Commodities in Moose Jaw. “It’s probably gone up $5 this week,” Loyns said. This year’s extended harvest, coupled with large amounts of grain to […] Read more
Syngenta to halt Canadian cereal development operations
Reading Time: 2 minutes Seed and ag chem giant Syngenta plans to wrap up a decade of cereal seed research and development work in Canada by the end of the year. The company announced Wednesday it will discontinue its Canadian cereal seed research and development program effective at the end of calendar 2019, affecting five Syngenta Canada staff positions. […] Read more
Glencore’s head barley trader leaves post
Reading Time: < 1 minute Paris | Reuters –– Glencore Agriculture removed head barley trader Mathieu Kleine from his post last week, market sources familiar with the matter said. The grain merchant, which is part owned by diversified commodity group Glencore, dismissed Kleine due to disappointing results, two of the sources said. It was not clear if Kleine was still […] Read more
Alberta harvest likely finished for 2019 in some regions
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm – Alberta farmers managed to make some progress despite trying conditions of cold temperatures mixed with snow and rain, including some hail, according to the province’s latest weekly crop report. For the week ended Nov. 5, approximately 88.0 per cent of all Alberta crops were in the bin. That’s up from 80.9 per cent […] Read more
CWRS bids edge lower with Minneapolis futures, CPSR up
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm – Wheat bids in Western Canada were mixed during the week ended Nov. 7, with a steady to lower tone in Canada Western Red Spring Wheat as a downtrend in the Minneapolis future weighed on values. However, the Chicago and Kansas City winter wheat contracts trended higher, which underpinned Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR) […] Read more
Feed weekly outlook: Barley, feed wheat at par in southern Alberta
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm – Feed barley prices in southern Alberta’s feedlot alley moved higher over the past few weeks, but the price rise will likely slow down as barley trades at par with feed wheat. Feed barley and feed wheat are both currently trading at around C$225 per tonne delivered into Lethbridge, Alta. “That’s a sell signal […] Read more
Homegrown ‘boutique wheat’
Breeding program lets farmers participate in breeding wheat and oat varieties suited to organic production
Reading Time: 5 minutes Not many remember that the Canadian Seed Growers Association started with a seed-selection competition for children. In the early 1900s, agriculturalist James Robertson and philanthropist Sir William MacDonald, wanting to encourage farmers to use seed selection to improve the output and resilience of Canadian farms, targeted their children with a contest: the children would select […] Read more
Perennial cereal rye 2.0
After setbacks with an earlier program, Lethbridge researchers are making progress in developing a dual-purpose grain and forage rye
Reading Time: 5 minutes It sounds ideal like the ideal crop. It produces grain every year, has no annual seed and planting costs, provides excellent weed control and you can also use it for forage. Too good to be true? Maybe not. Efforts to develop perennial wheat continue their slow pace with commercialization pegged at around 15 years from […] Read more
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