A farmer says inaccuracies in grain grading and dockage determination could cost growers millions of dollars
A Saskatchewan farmer says prairie grain growers are at risk of losing big money — potentially hundreds of millions of dollars every year — because no one is asking tough questions about the way grain is graded and sold in Western Canada. Grain growers across the West sell tens of millions of tonnes of grain to commercial […] Read moreAuthor Archives
Producers offered grain grading seminar
For the third time in as many years, commodity groups in Saskatchewan are offering a pair of one-day seminars that teach farmers about grading grain. Grade School 2019 will offer grain farmers an opportunity to learn more about common degrading factors and proper grading procedures, as detailed in Canada’s Official Grain Grading Guide. Experienced grain […] Read more
Canola quality remains uncertain
Prairie farmers have had plenty of things to fret about during the soggy harvest of 2019. Their latest stress point might be the condition of unharvested canola. As of late last week, a large amount of this year’s canola crop was still in the field. Based on provincial estimates, nearly 15 million acres of Western […] Read more
Falling number tests increase in importance
This year’s challenged harvest is expected to increase interest in using the measurement to determine value of the crop
With significant amounts of weather-damaged wheat filling grain bins across the West this year, farmers will be looking for any advantage they can find when it comes time to market this year’s crop. That means getting an accurate assessment of grade and falling number will be more important than ever in determining the crop’s value. […] Read more
Harvest delays slow grain movement
Slow harvest progress in Western Canada is delaying the movement of grain to prairie elevators and export terminals on the West Coast and at Thunder Bay. John Brooks, executive vice-president with Canadian Pacific Railway, told investors in Montreal that the western Canadian harvest is as much as 30 percent behind normal this year. Poor harvest […] Read more
Report puts a number on Sask. lake flooding
The study says farmers near the Quill Lakes have suffered total property losses of more than $100 million since 2012
Farmers and landowners around the Quill Lakes in east-central Saskatchewan have lost more than $100 million since 2012 due to rising water levels, according to a recently released report commissioned by the Quill Lakes Watershed Association. The report, entitled Economic Impacts of Quill Lakes Flooding 2012-2108, suggests farmers and landowners in the area have lost […] Read more
Ceres plans to sell shares
Ceres Global Ag Corp., owner of the Northgate, Sask., grain terminal, announced Sept. 20 that it is hoping to raise $12.6 million by selling nearly 2.8 million common shares — about 10 percent of the company’s total outstanding shares — in a private placement offer. According to a Sept. 20 news release, Ceres will sell […] Read more
‘Supercluster’ becomes an election target
The head of Protein Industries Canada says his office will conduct business as usual, despite suggestions that PIC and a $950 million federal supercluster program would be part of a review of federal business subsidy programs if Canada elects a Conservative government. “I’m not going to make specific comments on the policy platforms of any […] Read more
Sask. researchers help crack pea genome
The initiative will assist breeders in achieving specific breeding priorities, such as boosting pea protein levels
Plant scientists from the University of Saskatchewan have played a role in an international consortium of researchers that has developed a complete genome sequence for the pea (Pisum sativum). The accomplishment, which includes U of S researchers Tom Warkentin, Kishore Gali and Bunyamin Tar’an, took six years and was reported earlier this month in the […] Read more
Delayed harvest slows grain movement
Slow harvest progress in Western Canada is delaying the movement of grain to prairie elevators and export terminals on the West Coast and at Thunder Bay. John Brooks, executive vice-president with Canadian Pacific Railway, told investors in Montreal that the western Canadian harvest is as much as 30 percent behind normal this year. Poor harvest […] Read more
