SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, July 26 (Reuters) – Canadian farmers were on track to reap slightly larger wheat and canola yields, despite dry conditions and a wide discrepancy in growth rates, a crop tour estimated on Thursday. The inaugural Grain World crop tour, organized by FarmLink Marketing Solutions, toured the Canadian Prairie provinces on Tuesday and Wednesday. […] Read more
Canada dry, but crop tour sees slightly bigger wheat, canola yields
Wheat yanks up on the commodity chain
For a change it was wheat that lead commodities higher. A combination of factors lead markets to conclude that wheat wasn’t going to be as plentiful over the next grain year as it has been. Wheat on Chicago ended up US 32-5 cents per bushel in the face of droughty conditions in Europe. A grain […] Read more
Canola closed up, carried by beans, trade wars
American trade-war compensation announcements by Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue put soybean traders in a better mood and they rallied the markets behind the oilseed. Which was good news for canola and ICE futures for that crop. The US$12 billion support package is aimed at compensating producers for the loss of markets and lower prices […] Read more
Funding loss a blow to oat research
Public oat breeding has taken a major blow with PepsiCo pulling funding support from all oat breeding research in Canada. “In total it’s nearly $600,000 per year that they’ve eliminated, so now PepsiCo/Quaker is not helping to fund any oat breeding programs in Canada as far as we know,” said Shawna Mathieson, executive director of […] Read more
Sask. farmers issued fusarium risk warning
Farmers in northeastern Saskatchewan should stay alert for fusarium head blight, according to the province’s forecast map. “There are some other areas over by Hudson Bay and around the Melfort area that are high and that’s because they were wetter last year,” said Sherri Roberts, Saskatchewan Agriculture cropping management specialist for the southeastern region. While […] Read more
Ag economist questions future of oats
Oats is at risk of becoming an orphan crop, said Richard Gray, agricultural economist at the University of Saskatchewan. An orphan crop is a crop with too small an acreage footprint to garner a lot investment from either the private or public sector. “Part of it is they (oats) are a cereal grain, and the […] Read more
WP livestock report
Hogs The United States national live price average for barrows and gilts was US$55.91 per hundredweight July 13, down from $58.38 July 6. U.S. hogs averaged $74.19 on a carcass basis July 13, down from $76.61 July 6. The U.S. pork cutout was $83.82 per cwt. July 13, down from $85.52 July 6. The estimated […] Read more
Crop insurance prices out of line with markets
Market prices have declined on some commodities, making the insured price from crop insurance look generous by comparison. This has ramifications for producers who may be hit with low yields this fall. The great debate about the size of the prairie crop will intensify in the weeks ahead. While crop potential is good in many […] Read more
Canola up, wheat down in new seeded acreage report
Statistics Canada made some big adjustments in its June seeded acreage report, but the trade’s focus is elsewhere. “The biggest concern right now is going to be production,” said Brian Voth, president of IntelliFARM. “Acreage is only part of the story.” He recently drove across southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan and saw a lot of […] Read more
Wild oat resistance persists
Wild and free: that’s beginning to describe wild oats rather well. The “wild” is a given, right in the name, and the “free” is embodied in the weeds’ freedom from in-crop herbicide harm. “We have wild oat seed lots that can have blanket resistance to both Group 1s and Group 2s, meaning they’re resistant to […] Read more
