Reading Time: 5 minutes With every new year come great challenges. For Canadian farmers looking out into their 2015 planning horizon, soybeans are increasingly a large part of that. Where once soybeans were relegated to the deep southwest of Ontario, now there are three million acres in Ontario and 836,000 in Quebec, plus over one million acres in Manitoba […] Read more
2015 soybean market outlook
Soybean Guide: Demand is keeping pace with increased production, but will that continue? Here’s what to watch
The road ahead for soybean growers
Soybean Guide: What makes you so sure that you can plant more soybeans and still pull off good yields?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Soybeans, soybeans — and more soybeans. That’s the forecast from most corners of the agri-food industry, whether it’s based in Western Canada or in the East. Soybean production in Canada was big in 2014 and it’s on a path to grow even bigger in 2015. At the same time, that growth will come at a […] Read more
Stacked tolerance traits taking on herbicide-resistant weeds
Next-generation herbicide stacks are on their way to help fight not only weed resistance, but more weed species too
Reading Time: 8 minutes A number of next-generation herbicide-tolerant crops are in the pipeline for soybean and canola growers, but the offerings won’t include any magic bullets. Instead, what we’re likely to see first are more stacked tolerance traits. It’s because life science companies have their own kind of stacking to deal with. Their new traits are lined up, […] Read more
Digging into food-grade soybeans
Soybean Guide: This four-year study aims to exploit the best traits and qualities in IP soys
Reading Time: 6 minutes Agriculture often has to take a look back in order to see what’s ahead. Farmers do it with their cropping plans and seed orders. Retailers and suppliers do it too, using the previous year’s experience to improve in the year ahead. Now the food-grade soybean sector is embracing the same strategy. Thanks in part to […] Read more
Argentina says ‘worried’ about flooded soy fields
Reading Time: < 1 minute Buenos Aires | Reuters — Flooding in some of the soy-growing areas of Cordoba, Entre Rios and Santa Fe provinces has become “worrying” to the government as farmers get ready to start harvesting the 2014-15 crop, the agriculture ministry said in its weekly report on Friday. The northern part of the Pampas grains belt has […] Read more
Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses
Reading Time: < 1 minute Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Some of Argentina’s northern soy-growing areas were flooded by heavy rains in the past week, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said Thursday, warning that it may lower its 57 million-tonne 2014-15 harvest forecast in the coming weeks. The country is the world’s No. 3 soybean exporter and top supplier of […] Read more
Soybeans to see continued growth in Saskatchewan
Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Soybeans are a relatively new crop in Saskatchewan, but are generating more traction and are expected to increase their footprint in 2015. Saskatchewan farmers planted 270,000 acres of soybeans in 2014, nearly double the previous year, according to Statistics Canada data. “We’re expecting soybean acres to rise again,” said Carl Potts, executive […] Read more
Argentine farmers to halt crop sales for three days in protest
Reading Time: 2 minutes Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine farmers will suspend grain sales for three days to protest export quotas and other government policies they say hurt profits, the country’s main growers’ organizations said Tuesday. The strike will start on Wednesday, March 11, leaders of three of Argentina’s biggest farm groups told a press conference. “This action […] Read more
CBOT weekly: Soybeans, corn await next USDA reports
Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) moved up and down during the week ended Wednesday, but posted losses on the whole as concerns over a truckers’ strike in Brazil subsided. While large South American crop prospects remain a bearish influence in the background, the market could be due for […] Read more
Argentina tracks soy hoarding by registering silo bag sales
Reading Time: 2 minutes Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina will keep an eye on how much soy is being hoarded on farms throughout the country by requiring that the sales of silo bags be reported to tax authorities, according to a government resolution announced Monday. The oblong industrial-strength plastic bags have come to dot the Pampas grains belt […] Read more
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