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(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Wheat trade hoping for big export year

By Terry Fries August 23, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada –– Canadian wheat growers could find themselves popular with international buyers this winter, as world wheat stocks hit lows not seen for a decade. Marlene Boersch, managing partner at Mercantile Consulting Venture, said the present 26-day wheat supply available to world markets, once China’s stockpiles are removed from the equation, should boost prices […] Read more

AAC Elevate has a yield advantage of about six per cent over Radiant, and agronomics are suitable across the Prairies.

Cereals, Crops, Winter Wheat

Winter wheat varieties available or in the pipeline

These four varieties should make winter wheat more attractive to both farmers and customers

By Jeff Melchior August 21, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes Higher milling quality and larger and more consistent supplies are key to expanded markets for Prairie winter wheat. Rob Graf, long-time breeder at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, says four varieties either available or in the pipeline should help meet those goals. AAC Elevate Available since last fall, AAC Elevate […] Read more

Several promising new winter wheat varieties are being evaluated at the AAFC’s Lethbridge research station.

Crops, Winter Wheat

The great western winter wheat rescue is on

Researchers and marketers are combining their efforts to revitalize a crop stuck in a multi-year decline

By Jeff Melchior August 21, 2018

Reading Time: 5 minutes It can yield up to 40 per cent higher than spring wheat. It’s competitive with weeds. It helps prevent soil erosion. It spreads out the farm workload, with seeding and harvest windows different from spring crops. It’s the world’s most common type of wheat traded. And it’s duck-friendly. So what’s not to like? You’d think […] Read more

The easiest measure of success in row crop production comes at the combine — a matter of quantity versus quality.

Cereals, Crops

The protein advantage

In wheat, it can still pay to shoot for a protein-building combination of management, timing and a little luck

By Ralph Pearce August 21, 2018

Reading Time: 7 minutes Among the mental pictures we associate with wheat, one of the more tantalizing depicts the healthy goodness of a basket of loaves of bread and different types of buns. Although it’s not the traditional vision of acres of wheat ripening in the sun, it’s still what the exercise is all about, producing top-quality food for […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Some North Dakota wheat rejected for ergot, merchants say

By Julie Ingwersen August 14, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– Elevated levels of the grain fungus ergot are showing up in spring wheat being harvested in south-central North Dakota, prompting grain elevators to impose discounts and even turn some truckloads away, grain merchants said Tuesday. Ergot is a common grain fungus but some major buyers, including top global wheat importer Egypt, […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Lightest harvest in years expected for Germany

By MarketsFarm Team August 10, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada — Drought and heat continue to pound Germany’s crops and analysts now expect the lightest harvest in 24 years, the association of German farm co-operatives DRV said in an Aug. 8 harvest report. The harvest for all grains is expected to decline to about 36.3 million tonnes, a 20.3 per cent fall and […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Corn and soybeans sitting firm ahead of USDA report

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm August 8, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada – Corn and soybean markets at the Chicago Board of Trade have been strengthening ahead of Friday’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report from the United States Department of Agriculture. “There’s been a lot of really big yield estimates we’ve been throwing around that people are starting to walk back a little […] Read more

A diplomatic dispute between Canada and Saudi Arabia has halted wheat and barley shipments to the middle eastern country. Photo: Thinkstock

Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Saudi Arabian agency stops buying Canadian wheat, barley

By Michael Hogan August 7, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hamburg | Reuters – Saudi Arabia’s main state wheat buying agency has told grains exporters it will no longer buy Canadian wheat and barley in its international tenders, European traders said on Tuesday, as a diplomatic dispute between the two countries escalates. Traders said they had received an official notice from the Saudi Grains Organization […] Read more

McEachren tried different seeding rates on his test field: 140,000 as an average with 175,000 and 115,000 the extremes.

Cereals, Crops, Oilseeds

Relay cropping

The goal for Ontario’s Dave McEachren is three crops in two years

By Ralph Pearce August 2, 2018

Reading Time: 7 minutes For the 2018 growing season, Dave McEachren decided to revisit the past with something old and something new. A dozen years ago, he had tried relay cropping after hearing about it and reading the research that had been done on it at Ohio State University. The practice involves planting soybeans into a wheat crop as […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Spring Wheat

Chinese demand boosting Canadian wheat, barley exports

By Terry Fries July 18, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — China is making major moves to import more Canadian wheat and barley this year. Data released by the Canadian Grain Commission show China more than tripled its wheat imports, taking in 979,100 tonnes as of May, up from 295,300 tonnes in the same period of 2016-17 and an increase of 231.6 per […] Read more

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Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea found on a southern Alberta farm

Indonesia opens market to Canadian pork, expands beef access

IGC February report adjusts world data

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