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As seeding season approaches, a new seed royalty pilot is getting off the ground, to some controversy. Photo: File

Seed pilot project unveiled

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News February 28, 2020

The new Seed Variety Use Agreement (SVUA) pilot project, unveiled in Winnipeg Feb. 25, will demonstrate the benefits of farmers paying breeders a royalty for seed saved for planting. But the Prairies’ five wheat and barley commissions have “significant concern” about the project, they said in a news release. The SVUA pilot is being organized […] Read more

A small plot of forage barley on display at Ag in Motion near Saskatoon. (photo: Lisa Guenther)

Livestock, Research

Barley yields come up the backstretch

Research on the Record with Reynold Bergen

By Reynold Bergen February 24, 2020

Like cattle performance, crop yields reflect the interplay between genetics, management practices and environmental conditions. Statistics Canada reports show that barley yields weren’t keeping up with other feed crops for decades. Barley yields increased 0.39 bushels/acre/year between 1980 and 2009, slower than either wheat (0.44) or corn (1.66). But since 2010, Canada’s barley yields have […] Read more

A barley crop south of Ethelton, Sask. on July 30, 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Barley, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Softening barley market to stabilize

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News February 20, 2020

MarketsFarm — Feed barley bids in Western Canada have softened over the past few weeks, but should stabilize as the spring approaches. “I don’t think there’s a lot of potential to push this thing much higher, and I don’t think the bottom will fall out either. What you see is what you get,” Matt Froehlich, […] Read more

File photo of a canola field in northern France’s Normandy region. (Brasil2/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Lower grain production predicted from Europe in 2020

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News February 20, 2020

MarketsFarm — European grain production is expected to be down slightly in 2020, according to the first forecast for the year from European trade association Coceral. In the report, released Thursday, Coceral pegged total grain production for the European Union and United Kingdom in 2020 at 302.7 million tonnes, which would be down from the […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets

Strong export demand, acreage ahead for barley

Lower supplies from Australia benefit Canadian growers

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm February 8, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canadian malting barley acreage is expected to remain high in the coming year, mostly due to strong export demand. Peter Watts, managing director of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Center in Winnipeg, said tough harvest conditions were partially to blame for lowered malt barley output in 2019. “We had a fairly lousy harvest, […] Read more

Feed markets, Market talk, Markets

Feed barley outlook

Market Talk with Jerry Klassen

By Jerry Klassen February 6, 2020

I’ve received many inquiries from feedlot and backgrounding operators regarding the price outlook for feed barley. The Western Canadian feed grains complex made seasonal lows during September of 2019. Lethbridge area feedlots were buying feed barley at just under $200/mt delivered. However, the market started to ratchet higher during October. Adverse weather and the delayed […] Read more

Loading grain on a vessel at a Burrard Inlet terminal. (Maxvis/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Poor Chinese demand a setback for grain exports

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News February 1, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canadian grain exports from licensed facilities are running well behind the previous year’s pace, due primarily to a sharp reduction in movement to China, according to latest monthly data from the Canadian Grain Commission. Total exports at Dec. 31 of grain, oilseed and pulse crops for the 2019-20 crop year to date came […] Read more

Crops, Markets

AAFC forecasts more wheat, less canola seeded in spring

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 24, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers will seed more wheat and less canola in the 2020 growing season, according to the first supply/demand estimates for the 2020-21 marketing year, released Thursday by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Total seeded wheat area is forecast to rise to 25.77 million acres, from 25.02 million the previous year. Production is forecast […] Read more

Barley, Crops, Markets

Feed weekly outlook: Temperatures rise, Prairie bids cool down

By Phil Franz-Warkentin January 24, 2020

MarketsFarm — Feed grain bids in southern Alberta are cooling down as temperatures warm up after a bitter cold spell earlier in the month. After dealing with temperatures in the -20 C to -34 C range over much of the week ended Jan. 17, conditions in the key Lethbridge feeding area have flipped the other […] Read more

Forecaster Drew Lerner speaks at Ag Days 2020 in Brandon. (Manitoba Co-operator photo by Alexis Stockford)

Crops, Weather

Favourable growing conditions forecast for major ag regions

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm January 23, 2020

MarketsFarm — Canadian producers looking for challenging growing conditions elsewhere in the world to prop up commodity prices may be disappointed during the 2020 growing season. South America “If you’re looking for any help from South America for your canola or soybeans or corn, you’d better look somewhere else,” Drew Lerner, president of World Weather […] Read more

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Seed pilot project unveiled

Barley yields come up the backstretch

Feed weekly outlook: Softening barley market to stabilize

Lower grain production predicted from Europe in 2020

Strong export demand, acreage ahead for barley

Feed barley outlook

Poor Chinese demand a setback for grain exports

AAFC forecasts more wheat, less canola seeded in spring

Feed weekly outlook: Temperatures rise, Prairie bids cool down

Favourable growing conditions forecast for major ag regions

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