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Managing forage in a dry year

Planning for drought needs to occur before drought arrives

By Duane McCartney April 30, 2019

Drought is normal in Western Canada and it is not going to go away. We just don’t know when the next drought will be, or how long it will last. “Drought affects two basic parts of the rancher’s business,” says Dr. Art Bailey, range science professor emeritus at the University of Alberta. “On the demand […] Read more

Severe flooding in the U.S. Midwest may weigh on plantable acreage this spring for producers such as Justin Mensik, a corn and soybean grower shown here March 22, 2019 at his farm at Morse Bluff, Neb., about 70 km west of Omaha. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

USDA won’t survey for volume of grain lost to March floods

By Julie Ingwersen April 25, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s statistical arm will not collect data on the volume of harvested grain lost when farms from the Dakotas to Missouri were hit by flooding in March that burst grain storage bins, a government official said on Tuesday. However, figures in USDA’s regular quarterly stocks report for […] Read more

Statistics Canada’s March preliminary estimates of principal field crop areas, including 2019 acreage forecast released April 24, 2019. (Statcan.gc.ca)

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Canadian farmers to reduce canola plantings by seven per cent

By Rod Nickel April 24, 2019

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers intend to plant seven per cent fewer acres of canola this spring compared with a year earlier, even less than expected by analysts and traders, as a dispute with China hampers demand, a government report showed on Wednesday. China and Canada are locked in a diplomatic and trade dispute […] Read more

File photo of rice growing near Pune in Maharashtra, western India. (ePhotocorp/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses, Weather

Near-normal monsoon expected in India

By MarketsFarm Team, GFM Network News April 16, 2019

MarketsFarm — Monsoon rains in India are expected to be near normal in 2019, according to the first long-range forecast of the year from the India Meteorological Department. The southwest monsoon typically runs from June through September. It provides crucial moisture for the country’s agriculture sector, as it accounts for roughly 70 per cent of […] Read more

Sea surface temperature anomalies over the equatorial Pacific for the week centred on April 3, 2019. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Crops, Weather

Prairies can expect unexpected from El Nino this summer

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm April 12, 2019

MarketsFarm — The U.S. National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center on Thursday reported a 65 per cent chance of El Nino prevailing throughout 2019’s growing season. “A weak El Nino is likely to continue through the Northern Hemisphere summer 2019 (65 per cent chance) and possibly fall (50-55 per cent chance),” the CPC’s report said. […] Read more

Water vapour imagery from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES East satellite on April 10, 2019 shows a powerful late-season winter storm expected to bring heavy snow and high winds to parts of the north-central U.S. Plains and the upper Midwest. Bright blue and white areas indicate high water vapour or moisture content. (Satellite map courtesy NOAA)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

By Reuters April 11, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — A second “bomb cyclone” blizzard hitting the United States was limiting the movement and processing of corn, soybeans and wheat around the Midwest and Plains on Thursday. Grain trader Cargill said it was closing three of its grain handling facilities in Minnesota, two in South Dakota and one in Nebraska on […] Read more

CBOT May 2019 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

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U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn slide as export sales data disappoints

By Julie Ingwersen April 11, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean and corn futures fell on Thursday on disappointing weekly export sales data and expectations of large South American harvests that should dampen U.S. export prospects, analysts said. Wheat futures were higher on short-covering after a five-session slide and worries that wintry weather in the Dakotas will curb plantings of […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Crops, Weather

Neonic-treated canola not an ‘unacceptable risk’ for pollinators

By Dave Bedard April 11, 2019

Already facing federally mandated phase-outs from many major on-farm uses in Canada over risks to aquatic insects, neonicotinoids aren’t expected to pose “unacceptable risks” to pollinators when used on canola seed or hothouse vegetables in the meantime. Health Canada said as much Thursday as it released its final re-evaluation decisions for three neonic pesticides — […] Read more

The AltEn ethanol plant at Mead, Neb. on March 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

Midwest floods hammer U.S. ethanol industry

By Jarrett Renshaw, Stephanie Kelly April 8, 2019

New York | Reuters — The March floods that punished the U.S. Midwest have roiled the ethanol industry, hammering prices and trapping barrels in the country’s interior while the U.S. coasts suffer from shortages of the biofuel. The historic March floods have dealt a series of blows to large swaths of an ethanol industry that […] Read more

Emerging corn plants in Canada. (Sophie-Caron/iStock/Getty Images)

Corn, Crops, Weather

Feed weekly outlook: Corn acreage predicted to be flat

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm April 4, 2019

MarketsFarm — Experts predict corn acreage will be flat in Western Canada in 2019. While flooding remains a concern to many this spring, years of dry summers have impacted soil conditions to the point where a wet spring may be a welcome reprieve. “I’m more concerned about how much moisture we will have gained because […] Read more

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U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

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Managing forage in a dry year

USDA won’t survey for volume of grain lost to March floods

Canadian farmers to reduce canola plantings by seven per cent

Near-normal monsoon expected in India

Prairies can expect unexpected from El Nino this summer

Blizzard forces closure of some U.S. grain processors, elevators

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn slide as export sales data disappoints

Neonic-treated canola not an ‘unacceptable risk’ for pollinators

Midwest floods hammer U.S. ethanol industry

Feed weekly outlook: Corn acreage predicted to be flat

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