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ICE Canada canola futures climb for third straight day
Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

ICE Canada canola futures climb for third straight day

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago/Reuters – ICE Canada canola futures climbed on Wednesday for a third straight session, buoyed by a lack of moisture in parts of the Canadian Prairies and spillover strength from U.S. soyoil values, traders said. November canola rose $5.50 to settle at $511.20 per tonne, and January canola ended up $5.40 at $516.50. Chicago Board […] Read more
Chad Bown says that at 33 cents per litre, drying last year’s canola cost about six cents per bushel for propane, but related costs for equipment and electricity raised the total to about 50 cents per bushel.
Canola, Crops

Turn up the heat on aeration fans when drying canola

Some growers grappling with a late harvest and high-moisture crops in 2016 added supplemental heaters to their aeration fans. This grower’s experience may inspire an upgrade to aeration setups for 2017

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Things were a little off with Harvest 2016 and Chad Bown was desperate. The farmer from Ranfurly, Alta., was combining 14 per cent moisture canola in late November after a month or more of snow delays. Delivery locations were full, so on-farm storage was his only option. But aeration fans blowing cool air could not […] Read more
ICE Canada Weekly Outlook: Canola off highs, but watching weather
Canola, Markets

ICE Canada Weekly Outlook: Canola off highs, but watching weather

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Winnipeg (CNS Canada) – ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved lower during the week ended July 26, as improving weather conditions in parts of Western Canada and the US Midwest saw speculators liquidating some of their long positions. While the nearby charts turned bearish, canola rebounded off of its lows on Wednesday taking some direction […] Read more
VIDEO: Curbing clubroot in Ontario canola
Canola, Crops, Production

VIDEO: Curbing clubroot in Ontario canola

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Reading Time: < 1 minute During a recent canola growers’ day at Arthur, Ont., Dan Orchard, an agronomist with the Canola Council of Canada, brought his years of experience managing clubroot in Alberta to Ontario growers. Canola fields affected by clubroot were first found last year in Ontario. With some diligence, Orchard said, the problem should be able to be […] Read more
Canola, Crops, Markets

Crude oil bearishness seeps into canola market

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The falling price of crude oil is a bearish force weighing on many agricultural commodities, including canola, according to a Prairie market analyst. “Crude oil has been a driver of this weakness,” said Errol Anderson, president of ProMarket Communications in Calgary. In the past month, crude oil dropped roughly US$9 per barrel […] Read more
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Canola, Crops

Syngenta exits canola seed business

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canola growers checking out Syngenta Canada’s 2018 seed guide for Western Canada will notice canola by its absence. Syngenta, which entered the Prairie canola seed market in 2013 and by this spring had six hybrid varieties on offer, said in a statement it has “recently taken the decision to exit the canola seed business.” The […] Read more
Are you ready to scout for and control flea beetles?
Canola, Crops

Are you ready to scout for and control flea beetles?

Flea beetles move fast and do a lot of damage. Be sure to keep ahead of them in your canola crops

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Flea beetles are easily the most chronically damaging insect pest in western Canadian canola. Damage results in yield losses estimated at $300 million each year. To limit damage, experts recommend acting early when an average level of defoliation level of 25 per cent or more is reached. Early action necessary According to Greg Sekulic, an […] Read more
Grain Bins in a Canola Field
Canola, Crops

Four canola diseases to watch for

Be ready to recognize these major diseases in your canola crop this summer

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Is that canola crop afflicted by blackleg, root rot, both, or something else entirely? It’s a messy question farmers and agronomists encounter every year. Presenters tried to untangle those problems at CanoLAB in Vermilion this winter. Here are four diseases to watch for in canola fields this summer, and tips on diagnosing them. 1. Blackleg […] Read more

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