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Avoid ‘green bridge’ from winter wheat wrecks to spring wheat

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba agriculture department staffers report questions coming in about seeding spring wheat in a field where the winter wheat was torn up due to poor emergence or winterkill. The main disease consideration in this situation is wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV). This disease is vectored by the wheat curl mite and both the virus and […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Man. corn acres unlikely to live up to early expectations

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Manitoba corn growers have made good progress planting over the past two weeks, but the late start is expected to limit expansion into non-traditional growing areas, according to an official with the Manitoba Corn Growers Association. After planting a record 300,000-acre corn crop in 2012, strong prices and improving varieties had Manitoba farmers intending to […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Alta. seeding aided by warmer weather, but still behind

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Warmer conditions in Alberta have advanced the seeding process the past two weeks, but most areas are still a week behind normal, according to a provincial crop specialist. “The last few years we’ve had cool, wet Mays,” said Harry Brook with Alberta’s Ag-Info Centre in Stettler. “This year May was cool and wet early on, […] Read more
Crops, Weather

McMillan: U.S. farmers plant corn at breakneck pace

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Warmer temperatures and dry skies across growing areas of the U.S. have allowed farmers to make huge gains in seeding activities — although the haste to plant may not necessarily produce the best crop. Across the U.S., farmers raced to get crops sown after a slow start to the 2013 season. The changing weather was […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Weather

Westeel buys Italian grain conveyor maker

Reading Time: 2 minutes Winnipeg grain storage and handling equipment maker Westeel plans to offer customers worldwide a “more comprehensive” product line by buying further into the grain conveyor business. Westeel, the grain and liquid storage products arm of Oakville, Ont.-based Vicwest Inc., recently announced it has bought PTM Technology, an Italian designer and manufacturer of automated grain handling […] Read more
Livestock, Weather

Tight feed forces some Prairie cattle to pasture early

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Some producers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are having to put cattle out to pasture earlier than they should because they don’t have enough feed supplies to nourish them. “Feed is really expensive these days, so producers are not going to purchase more,” said Glenn Friesen, forage specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives at […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Weather

U.S. corn falls after record planting pace

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Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. corn futures dropped 1.5 per cent, to their lowest since early April, on Tuesday as investors unwound bull spreads following a record planting pace last week that encouraged farmers to sell some old-crop supplies to ease cash market tightness, traders said. A surge in corn planting progress during the past week eased farmer concerns […] Read more
Crops, Weather

CropChatter: Should I be cancelling my soybean seed?

Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re a soybean grower in Manitoba, before you considering cancelling your soybean seed for this spring, Manitoba’s CropChatter website lists a few points you should consider. Other recent questions and answers posted on the CropChatter site include whether producers still need to be concerned about a spring frost; what the plant stand should now […] Read more
Crops, Weather

Prairie farmers take advantage of planting window

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Weather conditions were good for spring seeding across much of Western Canada over the past week, with producers in the Prairie provinces getting in about a third of the crop in the past seven days alone, according to a CWB official. Total seeding progress across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta was estimated at 45 to 50 […] Read more

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