While crop production prospects in our nearest competitor, the United States, appear to be great, weather has not been so kind in other parts of the world. The outlook for a huge American crop has weakened grain prices, but the outlook for Canada’s crop exports in 2024-25 will also be affected by harvests in Europe, […] Read more
Pulses
Canadian producers have new option for selling pulses
WINNIPEG — Yet another company wants to buy pulse crops from Canadian farmers and sell them to the world. Sadot Group, a firm with headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, announced this summer that it’s creating a subsidiary in Toronto called Sadot Canada. In a news release from July unveiling the new division, Sadot Canada said […] Read more
Hopes of bumper crop evaporate
SASKATOON — A prolonged hot and dry spell has withered notions of a Prairie-wide bumper crop. MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett was forecasting a “close-to-record” crop after wrapping up a 3,500-kilometre, five-day crop tour in mid-July. Related stories: He doesn’t feel that way anymore after nearly three weeks of hot and dry weather. “There’s probably not […] Read more
Pulse grower-funded lentils near release date
Limagrain and Saskatchewan Pulse Growers say their new red lentil varieties will offer ‘significant yield improvement’
LANGHAM, Sask. — Saskatchewan Pulse Growers’ new breeding partner is poised to release its first varieties. Limagrain has small red lentil varieties ready for commercialization, Benzon Lorenzana, the company’s head of cereals and pulse research for North America, said during the Ag in Motion show. They will offer “significant yield improvement” for Canada’s lentil growers, […] Read more
VIDEO: Decent crop can create its own marketing challenges
Many western Canadian farmers are facing a marketing problem they haven’t had to think much about for the past five years. They, and many of their neighbours, will probably have a good crop to sell into a glutted market. No matter who you spoke with at Ag in Motion, farmers reported having or seeing great […] Read more
Bumper crop potential grows
LANGHAM, Sask. — Western Canadian farmers are sitting on a bumper crop, according to a leading grain analyst. “If we have a nice harvest period, we have the potential for having a close-to-record crop on the Prairies this year,” said MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett. That observation is based on a recently completed 3,500-kilometre crop tour […] Read more
Company promises instant plant tissue sample results
ATP Nutrition, which made headlines last year with their Nutriscan portable soil lab, has upgraded the system to scan nutrients in the leaf tissue of plants. The company spotlighted the technology at this year’s Ag in Motion farm show in Langham, Saskatchewan. Dan Owen, director of agronomy for ATP, said scanning the leaf tissue is […] Read more
Seed growers offer proof that new varieties will work, says SeCan manager
Many of us have become used to buying things that aren’t complete right out of the box. There’s probably no better example of this than the software industry, where products are often released to customers and released again when the “bugs” are out. Todd Hyra can’t speak for the entire grain industry, but as far […] Read more
VIDEO: Enthusiasm beats the heat at AIM 2024
Between 30,000 and 35,000 people attended Ag in Motion from July 16 to 18 to see offerings from a record 607 exhibitors, including 37 new product launches.
Thousands of attendees braved the mid-July heat for Ag in Motion 2024.Western Canada’s largest outdoor farm show transformed over 100 acres near Langham, Sask., into a small city for three days of demos, discussions and the latest developments in agriculture. “I really like the positive atmosphere that everybody’s brought to the show,” said show director […] Read more
Russia now sells more peas to China than Canada
Canada once had a 95 to 97 per cent market share but has dropped to 44.6 per cent, compared to Russia’s 49.1 per cent
SASKATOON — Russia has officially displaced Canada as the top exporter of peas to China. Russia’s Union of Grain Exporters said the country shipped 1.13 million tonnes of the crop to that market in 2023-24, according to a Reuters story. That gave it a 49.1 per cent market share compared to Canada’s 44.6 per cent. […] Read more
