Reading Time: 5 minutes What’s your definition of a “long-term” research project? Depending on its goals and its methodologies, five years might seem like a long time. Something like 10 or 20 years could be a real stretch. But here’s an experiment dating back 119 years that’s in a different category altogether, and it has just produced a new […] Read more
Finding more green for corn crops
These results from a 119-year-old experiment could strengthen corn stalks and boost yields
Getting to the root of corn rootworm
How alarmed should you be about the threat of corn rootworm due to the expansion of continuous corn acres?
Reading Time: 6 minutes For a large percentage of growers in Eastern Canada, corn production isn’t just one crop in the rotation, it’s the main crop in that rotation. For others — mostly livestock producers — it’s the only crop. That dominance is creating concerns as the incidence of resistance of corn rootworm becomes a more-pressing issue. Even so, […] Read more
CBOT weekly outlook: WASDE unexpectedly bearish for corn
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Corn prices on the Chicago Board of Trade immediately turned sour after Tuesday’s release of the monthly supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. By the time trading closed for the day, soybeans had recovered from losses incurred shortly after the report’s release to finish in double-digits on the plus […] Read more
Tracking tar spot in Ontario
Scouting is the foundation for managing this challenging new disease
Reading Time: 7 minutes In case you haven’t heard, tar spot in corn is finally part of the landscape in Ontario. Tar spot been plastered across the U.S. farm media for the past three years. Advisors, researchers and extension personnel in Ontario have been saying it’s inevitable that, given the diseases’s ease of transmission and rapid spread in the […] Read more
CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soybeans may see seasonal slowdown
However, more upside remains possible
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade, now trading at their highest levels in years, could come under some pressure over the next month, although the longer-range outlook remains strong, according to a broker. Crop insurance levels in the U.S. are based in part off of new-crop futures prices during […] Read more
CBOT weekly outlook: Corn is the leader
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Over the last week at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn has been leading soybeans, while wheat has been lacking good exports, according to Ryan Ettner, broker with Allendale Inc. in Fort McHenry, Ill. Ettner said he also expects the situation is very likely to continue, barring any kind of a major […] Read more
The challenge of even crop emergence
It’s a frequent subject but it’s also a source of conflict for many corn growers
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the days before the COVID-19 pandemic, talk during winter meetings and even well into spring centred on three key discussion points with corn: plant when the ground is fit, plant to moisture and pay attention to the critical weed-free period. Each comes under the heading of “giving your corn crop the best start,” because […] Read more
CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn turn bearish
Traders keep an eye on South America
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Soybean and corn futures backed away from multi-year highs during the week ended Wednesday, as investors took profits and weather conditions showed some improvement in South America. “The technicals are a little bearish for both corn and beans,” said Terry Reilly of Futures International in Chicago. The managed money long position in soybeans, […] Read more
Going wide on corn row spacing
In this research, allowing more space for the intercrop has little or no effect on corn yield
Reading Time: 5 minutes Get used to a new term in corn production — “solar corridor.” The idea is to provide a wide enough row spacing to allow sunlight to reach intercrops such as clover and hairy vetch. How wide? How does 60 inches sound? Intercropping is attracting more interest from straight grain as well as livestock producers. Grain […] Read more
Feed weekly outlook: Barley market’s eye on exports, corn prices
Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Strong export demand for Canadian barley and rising corn prices in the U.S. are expected to continue to keep feed prices well supported in Western Canada. “Feed grains are being squeezed by lower imports of U.S. corn into Western Canada,” analyst Chuck Penner of Leftfield Commodity Research said in a presentation Tuesday for […] Read more
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