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Manitoba soy growers likely face light yields

By Terry Fries August 23, 2018

CNS Canada — Manitoba soybeans will be ready for harvest well ahead of normal, provincial pulse crop specialist Dennis Lange said, fresh from fields where he was conducting maturity ratings. He said he was out around Morris on Tuesday and some soybean varieties there are already nearing full maturity. Throughout Manitoba, farmers could be taking […] Read more

Crops, Pulses, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: Heat blast threatens chickpea yields

By Dave Sims August 14, 2018

CNS Canada — Temperatures as high as 38 C were recorded in the western Prairies over the weekend — and with that heat comes questions about crop impact. Lentils and peas are far enough along that the recent heat wave is unlikely to affect them from a yield perspective, according to Carl Potts of Saskatchewan […] Read more

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Wider price spreads likely with big chickpea crop ahead

By Phil Franz-Warkentin, GFM Network News July 18, 2018

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers planted their largest chickpea crop in more than a decade in 2018, with the bigger crop likely to lead to a wider price spread between larger- and smaller-calibre supplies. Statistics Canada has placed chickpea acreage for 2018 at 468,900 acres, which would be well above the 160,000 acres planted in […] Read more

Features, Livestock

Consult the grazing chart

Grazing with Steve Kenyon

By Steve Kenyon July 17, 2018

One of the most undermanaged crops we have in North America is pasture. The reason we don’t manage it or don’t understand it is because most pasture is not bought or sold. It is usually consumed on farm. So we don’t understand the value of it. If we never see any value in it, we […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

U.S. spring wheat, durum expected to surge

By MarketsFarm Team July 12, 2018

CNS Canada — Data released today from the U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service showed large expected increases in spring wheat and durum production this year. Spring wheat production in the country, not including durum, is forecast at 614 million bushels, up 48 per cent from 2017. Of that, 584 million bushels, or 95 per cent […] Read more

Sclerotinia in canola. (Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Weather

Consider canola crop’s potential yield before spraying

By Lisa Guenther June 20, 2018

As July approaches and crop canopies close, sclerotinia will be on the minds of many canola growers. But will it pay to spray? Fungicide applications are more likely to be profitable when the canola hits 30-40 bushels per acre, said Colleen Redlick, senior technical development specialist at BASF. Justine Cornelsen, agronomy specialist with the Canola […] Read more

A coffee planter shows his coffee plantation in a farm in Sao Desiderio, Bahia state, Brazil on March 21. (Photo: Reuters/Roberto Samora)

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

By Roberto Samora March 27, 2018

Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Brazil | Reuters –– Farmers tending vast, flat soy and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye can see in northeastern Brazil are finding that coffee crops might provide higher profits in the country’s agricultural frontier. More coffee farms are being developed in the western part of Bahia state, which […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Front-month soy tops US$10

By Julie Ingwersen October 13, 2017

New York | Reuters — U.S. spot soybean futures closed above US$10 a bushel on Friday, the highest in 2-1/2 months, on follow-through buying a day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture lowered its estimate of the U.S. average soy yield, analysts said. Corn futures rose on a bigger-than-expected weekly export sales tally and wheat […] Read more

Crops

Study finds organic’s sustainability ‘context-dependent’

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 11, 2017

When weighed for sustainability, the purported benefits and costs of organic agriculture can actually “vary heavily” from case to case, a new University of British Columbia study finds. The UBC study, titled “Many shades of gray: The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture,” published Friday in the U.S. journal Science Advances, sets out to “systematically review […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Manitoba crops decline moving west: CWB tour

By Jade Markus July 22, 2015

Brandon, Man. — As this year’s CWB crop tour moves west through Manitoba, crops have started looking thinner as the area has been drier than in the eastern part of the province.. Canola around Killarney doesn’t look good compared to its eastern Manitoba counterparts. Canola in western Manitoba is still flowering. The later bloom is […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slip on demand concerns as beef prices turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy drops on demand worries, corn firm as traders question lofty yield projections

Australian crops to surpass 10-year averages

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U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slip on demand concerns as beef prices turn lower

U.S. grains: Soy drops on demand worries, corn firm as traders question lofty yield projections

Australian crops to surpass 10-year averages

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Manitoba soy growers likely face light yields

Pulse weekly outlook: Heat blast threatens chickpea yields

Pulse weekly outlook: Wider price spreads likely with big chickpea crop ahead

Consult the grazing chart

U.S. spring wheat, durum expected to surge

Consider canola crop’s potential yield before spraying

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

U.S. grains: Front-month soy tops US$10

Study finds organic’s sustainability ‘context-dependent’

Manitoba crops decline moving west: CWB tour

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