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Is this the shape of Prairie grain? Monsanto is betting $100 million on it.
Corn, Crops

The Corn Belt moves north

Monsanto has plans to produce varieties that can be grown on half the acres in Western Canada

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Reading Time: 7 minutes It might not look like it at first glance, but this nondescript boardroom in a steel building beside a busy highway in southern Manitoba is the heart of the western Canadian corn pipeline. The site near Carman is home to Monsanto’s major corn expansion project, announced just over two years ago with much fanfare and […] Read more
(Monsanto.com)
Corn, Crops, Reuters

Chinese farmers illegally growing GMO corn, Greenpeace says

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Beijing | Reuters — Farmers are illegally growing genetically modified (GMO) corn in China’s northeast, said environmental non-profit Greenpeace on Wednesday, in a report that may generate further distrust of the government’s ability to ensure a safe food supply. Beijing has spent billions of dollars to develop GMO crops that it hopes will ensure food […] Read more
Canada fleabane control with a post-emergent application of Banvel II (right) compared with an unsprayed check.
Crops

Pest Patrol: What’s the best way to get rid of glyphosate-resistant fleabane?

#PestPatrol with Mike Cowbrough, OMAFRA

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Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m seeing what I assume is glyphosate-resistant Canada fleabane all over the place. What is the best strategy to get rid of this weed in a corn, soybean and cereal rotation? CORN: Control of glyphosate-resistant Canada fleabane has been most consistent with post-emergence herbicide applications, but good control can be achieved with pre-emergence herbicides. Of […] Read more
(FIle photo by Allan Dawson)
Corn, Crops, Markets

Manitoba corn locked in sideways trading mode

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Manitoba corn appears locked into a sideways trading range for the foreseeable future, according to one industry watcher. From where the president of the Manitoba Corn Growers Association sits, it’s not surprising, given commodities’ bearish nature these days. “It’s not super-rosy; the (weak Canadian) dollar helps a bit, but we would like […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China plans to cut domestic corn prices to shrink stockpiles

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Beijing | Reuters — Beijing plans to cut local corn prices for a second year as it pushes to reignite stalled demand from its crisis-hit grain processors and whittle down the world’s biggest corn stockpile, industry sources said. In its latest move to boost a sector that has struggled with the world’s most expensive domestic […] Read more
The search for a ‘tipping point’ in corn production
Corn, Crops

The search for a ‘tipping point’ in corn production

Is corn ready for prime time on these Saskatchewan fields? Maybe yes, if we can get the marketing right

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Which has to come first, the acreage, or the market to justify it? That’s exactly the chicken-or-egg, catch-22 sort of situation that farmers on the Prairies have found themselves in repeatedly in past years as their cropping options have changed. First it was the canola revolution of the 1970s and ’80s which made Canada into […] Read more
harvesting corn
Crops

When good isn’t good enough

How do you go from good to great at marketing? With volatile years ahead, these five steps will help

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Neil Blue cut his grain-marketing teeth as a farmer in the bad ol’ ’80s. He had no choice. It was either that or rack up loss after loss. “Now the second and sometimes the third generation of farmers are learning about these things,” says Blue, today a marketing analyst with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. “Some […] Read more

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