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Slumping beef demand weakens U.S. live cattle futures

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures posted modest losses on Friday with lower wholesale beef prices, traders and analysts said. August live cattle closed down 0.075 cent per pound, to 121.85 cents. October ended at 126.075 cents, or 0.35 cent lower (all figures US$). The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Friday afternoon data showed the […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Profit-taking, weather pressure new-crop U.S. corn, soy

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Reading Time: 3 minutes New-crop U.S. soybean and corn futures sank on Friday as updated weather forecasts scaled back the threat of hot and dry weather in the Corn Belt and traders took profits following recent gains. Nearby July contracts expired after gyrating in extremely volatile trading. At the Chicago Board of Trade, November soybeans, representing the crop that […] Read more
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s 2013 Prairie grasshopper forecast. (AAFC)
Crops, Weather

Grasshopper today’s top pest issue in Manitoba

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Weird weather appears to putting the lie to the age-old assertion that on the Prairies, you get either grasshoppers or mosquitoes, but never both. In scattered pockets around the province, young hoppers are boiling underneath the grass canopy even as hordes of mosquitoes hover above creating misery for man, bird and beast. “Currently, the biggest […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Man., Sask. soybeans catch up on development

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Soybeans may have been planted late in Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year, but hot temperatures in recent weeks have helped speed up the development. “They look great,” said Mark Jorgensen of soybean processor Delmar Commodities at Winkler, Man., noting hot days and hot nights have helped the soybeans gain ground despite being seeded a little […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

EU lawmakers deal blow to crop-based biofuels

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Reading Time: 2 minutes EU efforts to limit the use of crop-based biofuels, increasingly seen as doing the planet more harm than good, won parliamentary backing on Thursday in what a top biodiesel company called “a very bad blow.” The vote in the European Parliament’s environment committee will be followed by a plenary vote, expected in September. It will […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

ICE canola outlook: Weather to determine price direction

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canola contracts on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform moved higher during the week ended Wednesday (July 10), with much of the strength linked to the commodity following the gains seen in Chicago soybeans. Traders were said to be building a weather premium into the U.S. soybean market, as they got “edgy” with forecasts calling […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

Chicago soybeans near three-week high on weather concerns

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Reading Time: 3 minutes U.S. new-crop soybean futures rose to a nearly three-week high on Wednesday on worries about planting delays and potentially stressful crop weather, traders said. Corn futures ended mixed with new-crop December edging lower, while wheat was mostly higher. At the Chicago Board of Trade, new-crop November soybeans ended up 8-1/2 cents at $12.84-3/4 per bushel […] Read more
Crops, Weather

CropChatter: Why are my wheat leaves purple?

Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba’s provincial Crop Diagnostic Lab and Crops Knowledge Centre have received samples this week of wheat plants with distinct purple colouring on their leaves. Similar symptoms were first reported in 2009, on leaves of Kane wheat, according to staff from Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, writing Tuesday on the CropChatter website. But what’s causing […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Late herbicide application can cut soybean yields

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s all in the timing: Delaying herbicide application until later stages of weed growth can result in lower crop yields. A field survey has found that when glyphosate is applied to glyphosate-resistant soybeans with weeds taller than six inches, crop yields can be reduced by as much as 27 per cent. The July-September edition of […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Weather impact info now on the AIR

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has created a new application Canadians can access over the Internet to report on how weather and climate conditions affect their farm operations. “It allows a producer to provide their story to us,” said Trevor Hadwen, an AAFC agroclimate specialist based in Regina. The Agroclimate Impact Reporter (AIR) is an […] Read more

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