(A previous version of this story had incorrect data on canola. It has been corrected.) By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Canadian canola stocks were likely the the tightest in four years before the country’s harvest began, while wheat supplies topped those of last year, according to a Reuters survey ahead of […] Read more
Flax
PREVIEW-Year end canola stocks seen dwindling to 4-year low
StatsCan production survey timing likely to skew results
Winnipeg, Aug. 29 (CNS Canada) – Production of Canada’s major crops is generally expected to be down on the year after an adverse growing season in many areas. However, actual production may not end up as low as the estimates set to be released by Statistics Canada on Aug. 31 due to the timing of […] Read more
Research company touts camelina as the next Cinderella crop in Western Canada
Jack Grushcow is a true believer, at least when it comes to camelina. Grushcow, who founded a software company that was sold to Microsoft in 1991, is convinced camelina will be the next Cinderella crop in Western Canada. There’s only about 5,000 acres of camelina in Saskatchewan this year, but Grushcow envisions a much larger […] Read more
Saskatchewan harvest ahead of average
WINNIPEG, Aug. 24 – Harvest progress across Saskatchewan is ahead of the five-year average, according to the latest Saskatchewan Agriculture crop report released today. Fourteen percent has been combined in the province so far, compared to the five-year average of eight percent. Another 15 percent of the crop is swathed or ready to be straight […] Read more
Harvest: the last chance to boost yield
Learning where your losses are occurring at the back of the combine is critical to putting money in your pocket
HUMBOLDT, Sask. — Harvest time is another opportunity to increase yield by reducing what stays in the field. Combine losses are typically acceptable at a bushel per acre, depending on the crop. The number is more if it is a heavy feed barley crop and less if it is canola or flax. For every bushel […] Read more
Trials compare rotation length, weed numbers
Research studied one and two-year rotations, with and without fungicide treatments, and assessed weed populations
LACOMBE, Alta. — Current prairie crop rotations are too short to beat back weeds and disease. “If you look at our cropping systems here in Western Canada, we are largely a cereal-oilseed-cereal-oilseed rotation in many areas. In many areas, pulses are an important part of the rotation,” Kelly Turkington, a plant pathologist with Agriculture Canada […] Read more
Prairie flax crop in tough shape
Growers might want to be patient when marketing the 2017 flax crop, says an analyst. Small crops in Canada and the United States will create a tight supply and demand situation in North America, said Chuck Penner, analyst with LeftField Commodity Research. He forecasts 550,000 tonnes of Canadian production, well below Agriculture Canada’s estimate of […] Read more
You shake my breath and rattle my health
Come the fall, the field will be harvested, your grain will be in the bin, and if you’re lucky, everything will quickly be hauled off. All that will be left on your field is the straw, and if it’s a flax field, that straw becomes a real pain next seeding season. It wraps around the […] Read more
Silver lining to smaller crops: less off-combine selling
Farmers probably won’t race down the gravel roads of Western Canada to dump off-the-combine crop into the elevator system. That’s one of the few silver linings to the cloudy situation that so many Prairie farmers face — smaller-than-expected crops and adequate bin space are reducing the need to move crop fast. “People having to sell […] Read more
Saskatchewan crop conditions deteriorate in heat and dry weather
WINNIPEG, July 13 (CNS) – The condition of major Saskatchewan crops has deteriorated over the past two weeks but the pace of maturation has caught up to normal. Saskatchewan Agriculture says in its weekly crop report released July 13 that most crops are at the normal stage of development. However, lack of rain and heat […] Read more
