Forages, Hay, Pasture

Feed Watch: August 12, 2019

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Staff

Forages, Hay, Pasture

Feed Watch: August 5, 2019

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Staff

Cereals, Forages, Peas

What to consider when choosing alternate cattle feed sources

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Piper Whelan

Must Reads

• Forages, Hay, Pasture

  Feed Watch: July 29, 2019

  While rain has boosted pasture growth in recent weeks, it didn’t come early enough for a second cut of hay…

  July 30, 2019

• Forages, Hay

  Don’t let hot air spoil your silage

  If you think you’ve packed that silage enough, pack it again. That’s among the…

  July 26, 2019

• Cereals, Forages, Livestock, Pasture

  Nitrate toxicity poses risk to cattle

  Haying and grazing season is underway and due to dry conditions more of the forage supply is consisting of small…

  July 24, 2019

• Forages, Hay, Pasture

  Feed Watch: July 22, 2019

  While rain has generally improved conditions in Western Canada, a hay shortage looms in many regions. On Monday morning, the…

  July 22, 2019

• Features, Pasture

  Using insects to control invasive weeds on pasture

  Once invasive plants reach a point of domination, elimination is generally not feasible. Land managers sometimes turn to biologic control,…

  July 17, 2019

• Forages, News

  Feed Watch: July 15, 2019

  As the summer wears on, the precipitation situation varies greatly across the Prairies. Rain has been plentiful in some areas,…

  July 15, 2019

Crops, Soybeans

Ceres closes on option to buy Delmar Commodities

By GFM Staff 14 hours ago

U.S. commodities firm Ceres Global Ag Corp. has exercised its option and closed its deal to buy Manitoba grain merchandising firm Delmar Commodities. Ceres announced Friday it has completed the deal to buy all of Delmar’s shares for about $15.25 million in cash and assume about $7.6 million in existing term debt. The Minneapolis firm […] Read more

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Crops, Machinery

Telus buys Farm At Hand

By GFM Staff 16 hours ago

Vancouver farm management software development firm Farm At Hand has become an arm of one of the Big Five in Canada’s communication services sector. Farm At Hand, which makes the cloud-based Crop Planner software suite for farmers and the Farm At Hand Agronomy suite for agronomists, announced Tuesday it has been wholly acquired by Telus […] Read more

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Crops, Weather

Prairie hail claims pass 10,000 for year

By MarketsFarm 3 days ago

MarketsFarm — More than 10,000 claims for hail damage have been filed by Prairie farmers so far in 2019 with insurance companies belonging to the Canadian Crop Hail Association. Between July 27 and Aug. 6, hail on the Prairies saw farmers add 900 claims alone, according to a CCHA press release Friday. To date overall, […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

USDA attache to Canada predicts larger wheat crop

By MarketsFarm 3 days ago

MarketsFarm — A new report from the Ottawa-based attache to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has raised its estimate of total wheat production in Canada for 2019. The report Thursday from attache Phil Hayes increases FAS’s estimate of wheat production in Canada for 2019 to 32.65 million tonnes, compared to last […] Read more

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Canola, Crops, Markets

Funds cover canola short positions

By Phil Franz-Warkentin 3 days ago

MarketsFarm — Fund traders covered some of their large net short position in canola during the week ended Tuesday, according to the latest commitment of traders (CoT) report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The net managed money short position in canola came in Tuesday at 66,293, a decrease of roughly 3,000 contracts […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Cash wheat: Bids mixed, watching futures and currency

By Phil Franz-Warkentin 3 days ago

MarketsFarm — Wheat bids in Western Canada were narrowly mixed during the week ended Thursday, with losses in U.S. futures countered by support from a softer Canadian dollar. The Canadian dollar was down by roughly a third of a cent relative to its U.S. counterpart, while the futures were all lower following bearish U.S. Department […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, soy, wheat rise but post big weekly losses

By Mark Weinraub 3 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn, soybean and wheat futures rose on Friday on a technical rebound as traders evened up positions after the grains market posted sharp declines during the week. The heavy weekly losses — corn posted its biggest weekly drop in percentage terms since June 2016 — stemmed from a surprise boost […] Read more

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Corn, Crops, Reuters

Ag-state senator says Trump EPA ‘screwed us’ with biofuel waivers

By Humeyra Pamuk 3 days ago

Washington | Reuters — Iowa’s Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has “screwed” the U.S. ethanol industry and farmers by granting waivers to 31 small petroleum refineries, effectively exempting them from an obligation to use more ethanol in their products. The powerful senator, who represents the largest ethanol-producing state in […] Read more

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Crops, Weather, Winter Wheat

Winter wheat harvest varies by province

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm 4 days ago

MarketsFarm — Depending where a farmer is located, Canada’s winter wheat crop has varied this year. Ontario has long been the country’s powerhouse for winter wheat. Statistics Canada projected the province’s farmers to seed just over one million acres this year, nearly 75 per cent of Canada’s total winter wheat acres. However, Marty Vermey, senior […] Read more

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Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

U.S. CFTC says Kraft, Mondelez to pay $16M in wheat price manipulation case

By Reuters 4 days ago

Reuters — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Thursday Kraft Heinz and Mondelez International will have to pay US$16 million in penalty regarding a wheat manipulation case that dates back to 2015. Kraft Heinz, which was Kraft Foods until 2015, and snack food firm Mondelez bought $90 million of December 2011 wheat […] Read more

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