A group of Prairie crop associations have pledged $1.8 million to continue barley variety development at the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre.
As Statistics Canada projected Alberta to see larger harvests of dry peas and lentils in 2025/26, the Alberta Pulse Growers offered their views as to why.
Corn production in Mexico is to improve to 25 million tonnes in 2025/26, while the country’s wheat crop is to recede a little, said the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Mexico City.
As Canada’s western provinces experience the second-worst wildfire season in decades, driven by hotter and drier conditions due to climate change, some canola farmers say they are seeing an unexpected benefit to the hazy summer skies.
Canada’s durum crop has been damaged from rainy, damp conditions, with some farmers holding off on harvesting crops in the hopes of drier weather the Canadian Grain Commission said.
In an unexpected move, Argentina has seriously disrupted any possible new crop soybean purchases to be made by China from the United States, said analyst Michael Cordonnier of Soybean and Corn Advisor Inc. in Hinsdale, Ill.