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Prairie farmers wait to assess frost damage

Reading Time: 2 minutes Prairie grain and oilseed growers are advised to wait a day or more to assess their fields in the wake of frost damage which hit parts of the region over the weekend. Maps generated by Weather Innovations Consulting for the WeatherFarm website show lows dropped into the -1 to -3 C range in much of […] Read more
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Farm use of neonics ‘not sustainable:’ PMRA

Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s farming practices involving corn and soybeans treated with neonicotinoid pesticides are “not sustainable” and new measures to reduce their risk to bees are en route for 2014, the federal government says. Following reports of bee deaths over more corn- and soybean-growing areas in three provinces, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) announced Friday […] Read more
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Mustard yields ‘all over the map,’ analyst says

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada’s mustard harvest is ongoing throughout the Prairies, with yields varying greatly from field to field, said Patrick Ackerman, chair of the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission (SMDC), said. “Mustard yields are all over the map,” he said. “I’ve heard poorer yields than last year, and I’ve heard better yields than last year. It’s kind of […] Read more
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Bayer to scrap TraitGuard canola program for 2014

Reading Time: 2 minutes Calling the program a “bigger challenge” than expected, Bayer CropScience Canada plans to shut down its TraitGuard early-season establishment program for growers of its InVigor canola. Under TraitGuard, farmers who signed the program release would see per-acre refunds of the InVigor trait fee they paid to Bayer, on InVigor hybrid canola acres that failed to […] Read more
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Late blight arrives again in Manitoba potato country

Reading Time: 2 minutes Manitoba’s agriculture department has again confirmed findings of late blight, a highly destructive Prairie potato disease, in the central potato-producing area of the province. Late blight is able to attack both tubers and foliage at any stage of development and can destroy entire fields if left unchecked, the province has said previously. Suspect leaf samples […] Read more
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Corn futures sink after USDA increases U.S. crop; soy soars

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Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. corn futures tumbled on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture surprised traders by increasing its harvest forecast despite a late-summer stretch of hot, dry weather in key crop areas. Soybean futures soared after the USDA, in the same monthly report, made a larger-than-expected cut to stocks remaining at the end of the crop […] Read more
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CBOT soy, corn, wheat edge up ahead of USDA harvest view

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Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. soybean futures crawled higher on Wednesday as hot weather in the U.S. Midwest encouraged traders to expect a lower harvest outlook in a government report due on Thursday. Corn and wheat futures also rose in tentative trading in the run-up to the release of U.S. Department of Agriculture crop data. The U.S. crop production […] Read more
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CBOT soybeans slip on hopes for rain in U.S. Midwest

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Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. soybean futures slipped on Tuesday on forecasts for modest rainfall that could bring some relief to crops stressed by recent dryness in the U.S. Midwest. Corn and wheat futures edged higher on positioning ahead of U.S. government crop reports due out on Thursday. The U.S. soybean crop is in its weather-sensitive, pod-setting stage of […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Claims for storm-damaged crops above average for Alta.

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Many Alberta farmers were rocked by wild weather this summer, with overall claim activity 25 per cent above average, according to the Canadian Crop Hail Association. The association’s latest report stated that although insurance companies saw more normal claim volumes from Alberta in August, storms struck southern Alberta early in the season. Central Alberta was […] Read more

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