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Rain poses biggest threat to Man. edible beans

By Jade Markus June 8, 2015

CNS Canada — Most of Manitoba’s edible bean crops are progressing with no complications — the only imminent threat being too much rain and moisture. Dennis Lange, farm production advisor for Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development at Altona, said most of the beans were planted at the end of May. “One of the biggest […] Read more

Crops, Oats, Weather

Prairie oats crop off to a decent start

By Terryn Shiells June 8, 2015

CNS Canada — Western Canadian farmers are wrapping up seeding their oats crops, which so far are off to a decent start in many areas. “I know in Manitoba, in the Red River Valley, the oats are off to an excellent start,” said Art Enns, president of the Prairie Oats Growers Association. “In Saskatchewan it’s […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Wheat bids climb with U.S. futures

By Phil Franz-Warkentin June 8, 2015

CNS Canada –– Cash bids for Canadian wheat climbed sharply during the week ended Friday, as a rally in U.S. futures pulled bids up across the Prairies. Average Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat prices were C$12 to $19 per tonne higher, with bids ranging from about $218 per tonne in north-central Saskatchewan to as […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat adds two per cent gain to weather-related rally

By Julie Ingwersen, Rod Nickel June 8, 2015

Reuters — Chicago wheat futures climbed two per cent on Monday, extending last week’s rally on worries over potentially lower crop yields in the U.S. Plains. Wheat’s gains helped pull corn and soybeans close to the multi-week highs they touched on Friday. Weather concerns encouraged investors to cover short positions, said Mark Schultz, chief analyst […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Monsanto sweetens Syngenta play with $2B break fee

By Reuters June 8, 2015

New York | Reuters –– U.S. seed and ag chem firm Monsanto has offered to pay a US$2 billion reverse break-up fee to Syngenta if it can’t obtain global regulatory approvals for an acquisition, it said in a statement on Sunday. The move, under which Monsanto would pay the fee if regulators reject the proposal, […] Read more

Dr. Roy Golsteyn’s lab is studying buffalo bean for compounds that may help fight certain cancers. (Photo courtesy University of Lethbridge)

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Guenther: Buffalo bean more than floral for cancer researchers

By Lisa Guenther June 6, 2015

Buffalo beans adorn the pastures, field edges and even kitchen tables of many Prairie farms and ranches — but the pretty plant is now also being picked for its potential properties as a cancer fighter. Experiments show compounds extracted from buffalo bean leaves have potential to fight a class of cancers that includes multiple myeloma, […] Read more

Features, Forages

Looking for a payoff from energy-dense forages

By Heather Smith Thomas June 5, 2015

Clayton Robins, the current executive director of the Manitoba 4-H Council, has been researching forages for a number of years. In 2008 he was part of a team from Canada that went to Argentina to look at the forage-fed beef value chain. “We spent most of our time there with Dr. Anibal Pordomingo who was […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Profit-taking weighs on soybeans, corn, wheat

By Mark Weinraub June 5, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn, wheat and soybean futures fell on Friday on end-of-week profit-taking and technical selling, traders said. It was the first time all three commodities posted losses on the same day since May 26. Some position-squaring ahead of the U.S. Agriculture Department’s monthly supply and demand report on Wednesday was noted. […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Oats, Reuters, Soybeans, Spring Wheat

CME bars grain traders for years over wash trades, spoofing

By Reuters June 5, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– CME Group said Friday it barred a grain trader from its markets for three years for executing noncompetitive transactions and suspended another for two years for market manipulation. The traders, Aleksey Vsemirnov and Stephen Duggan, could not immediately be reached for comment. Vsemirnov executed numerous non-competitive transactions in wheat, oats, rice, […] Read more

Canola, Crops

Time to test all Man. fields for clubroot, province says

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff June 5, 2015

Distribution of clubroot spores across Manitoba now suggests it’s time for more widespread testing to keep the disease in check, the provincial ag department recommends. Since the disease appeared in Manitoba in 2009, fewer than five per cent of the province’s farms have so far been tested for the spores that cause the yield-robbing disease […] Read more

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Rain poses biggest threat to Man. edible beans

Prairie oats crop off to a decent start

Wheat bids climb with U.S. futures

U.S. grains: Wheat adds two per cent gain to weather-related rally

Monsanto sweetens Syngenta play with $2B break fee

Guenther: Buffalo bean more than floral for cancer researchers

Looking for a payoff from energy-dense forages

U.S. grains: Profit-taking weighs on soybeans, corn, wheat

CME bars grain traders for years over wash trades, spoofing

Time to test all Man. fields for clubroot, province says

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