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Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT soy seen weakening as soon as Brazil’s logistics improve

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, as continued good export demand for U.S. soybeans was bullish. Brazil’s slower than normal harvest pace and its logistics problems related to a trucker strike both led to strong export demand for the U.S. As soon as those […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Weather

Manitoba corn acres expected to be ‘down or flat’

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — A mixture of extremely wet conditions in 2014 and a projected dry outlook for southwestern Manitoba are leading one corn expert to predict fewer corn acres in the province in 2015. “The southwest was wet, wet, wet and now they’re expecting to be dry, dry, dry. Neither of those conditions is great […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Reuters

Cargill begins selling GM corn seed at centre of lawsuits

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Cargill has started selling a variety of genetically modified Syngenta corn seed that previously disrupted U.S. grain trading, now that China has approved imports of the biotech crop. Cargill, one of the top U.S. grain exporters, began selling seed containing the Agrisure Viptera trait last month and scrapped a policy that required farmers […] Read more
corn plants
Corn

The market is looking for corn acres

Corn Guide: It may seem like the bears are in control, but global corn demand is amazingly strong

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Reading Time: 4 minutes We got here with our eyes wide open. Corn prices have been in a decline since August of 2012 when futures topped out at $8.49 per bushel. Now of course, we are all ready for the ride back up, and the question is how long this will take, and will corn prices in 2015 climb […] Read more
A new arrival in the high-speed planter market, the Väderstad Tempo was showcased at the 2014 Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show.
Corn

High-speed planters turn more heads

Corn Guide: More manufacturers join 
the competition to sell high-accuracy, 12-m.p.h. planters

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Reading Time: 7 minutes One hundred hours. It’s barely more than four days of 24-hour planting, and it can seem like it goes by in a blink of the eye. But depending on farm size, it’s the typical number of hours you get in the spring to plant your corn and soybeans into optimum conditions. In some years like […] Read more
Three generations of the Cantelon family farming operation: Wayne (l), his son Mark and his dad George.
Corn, Crops

Once you get to the top…

Corn Guide: For the corn-growing Cantelon family, it just means you’re partway there

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Wayne Cantelon is a lot like other farmers. He works a substantial number of acres with his father, brother and son, and he’s always trying to improve conditions and production. And just like a lot of other farmers, too, he’s hesitant to consider himself a leader or an innovator. In spite of that reluctance, Cantelon, […] Read more
beetles eating corn plant
Corn, Crops

Advanced corn crop management

Corn Guide: Nutrient uptake during grain fill is the new pathway to even higher yields

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Reading Time: 8 minutes It’s a fair comment these days that corn production has reached a new level of complexity. Corn is anything but a simple, straightforward crop, even without taking into account the changing economics forced on producers by falling prices, and the constantly shifting mix of imports, exports and trait acceptability, Now comes research into a specific […] Read more
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I certainly wouldn’t be dumping half my 
acres into corn the very first year.” — Myron Krahn, MCGA
Corn, Crops

The West’s new Cinderella

Corn acres are surging across the West. Is it time for you to get on board?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Although widespread throughout southern Ontario and the U.S., corn is a crop you don’t normally associate with the colder Canadian Prairies. But don’t tell that to Monsanto, which is investing $100 million to develop early-maturing hybrids that the company hopes could make corn the new star in the West. “I think there’ll be millions of […] Read more

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