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Top 10 weed management practices
Crops

Top 10 weed management practices

Herbicide resistant weeds are no longer a novelty, they’re the norm

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Hugh Beckie, a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, said it’s a challenge to get farmers to implement herbicide-resistance best management practices (BMP) because growers are diverse, and one size doesn’t fit all. But Beckie has found that growers who use BMPs tend to have less herbicide resistance. So, in the spirit of David[...]
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Eight tips to run your own crop trials
Crops

Eight tips to run your own crop trials

Do your own research instead of adapting other people's research to your farm

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Every acre can be a research acre, said Nicole Philp to farmers at this years CropSphere in Saskatoon. Farmers interested in testing new products and practices can create powerful data sets with a little co-ordination, said Philp, a Canola Council of Canada agronomist. But how can you make sure you get good data out of[...]
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Canola, Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: Canola drops amid widespread pressure

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts suffered significant losses during a volatile week ended Wednesday. While futures managed to recover off their fresh contract lows hit during the week, the overall technical bias remained pointed lower. Weakness in the U.S. soy complex and vegetable oil market were joined by strength in the Canadian[...]
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(Bruce Fritz photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets

Sunflowers look good in field, flat in market

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — While many Canadian crops are wishing for more rain right now, one expert sees sunflowers, primarily grown in Manitoba, doing relatively fine for moisture. “There’s no weather worries on sunflowers right now. A lot of the acres went in because it was forecasted to be a very dry summer, but it hasn’t[...]
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(Bruce Fritz photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets, Weather

Sunflowers off to good start in Manitoba

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Manitoba’s sunflower crop is off to a good start this year, having largely missed out on any damage from adverse weather over the May long weekend. “We had a good early start (to spring seeding) in the eastern part of the province and things went into some nice warm ground,” said Troy[...]
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(Bruce Fritz photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Crops, Markets, Weather

Manitoba sunflower acres set to rise

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada –– An early spring and drier conditions in western Manitoba, together with relatively favourable prices, should lead to an increase in sunflower plantings in the province this year. “Assuming that the southwest won’t be wet this year, we’re expecting that acres will be over 100,000,” said Darcelle Graham, executive director of the National[...]
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Canola, Crops, Machinery, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

ADM cuts biodiesel output as industry hit by weak margins

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg/New York | Reuters — Archer Daniels Midland , one of the world’s top biofuels producers, has slowed North American biodiesel output, the latest sign the industry is battling uncertainty over U.S. renewable fuel policy while the oil rout curbs demand. The Chicago-based agri business has “temporarily” shifted production at its Velva, N.D. oilseeds processing[...]
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Moving grain to market
Crops

Moving grain to market

Truckers and farmers are still figuring each other out following a massive move to hired transport

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Reading Time: 6 minutes The 2014 crop is in the bin, and farmers now face their two perennial post-harvest challenges. They must market their grains and oilseeds amid a challenging world scene, and they must move those harvests efficiently off the farm. Over the past 20 years, the way they’ve done that second job has changed dramatically. Back when[...]
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bag of certified seed
Crops, Soybeans

The slow road to traceability for grains and oilseeds

Traceability may be inevitable, and it may even be welcomed by farmers, but it is arriving in baby steps

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The word gets rolled out every time there’s a scare about food-borne illness, or when a meat or vegetable recall hits the headlines. It’s traceability. On the food side of the agri-food industry, it’s a word that instils confidence and trust. Yet on the agricultural side — at least, on the crop side — it[...]
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