SASKATOON — European Union canola demand should be robust this year, according to an Australian analyst. That is due in part to a poor domestic harvest, Dennis Voznesenski, agricultural economist with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said in a recent weekly alert and podcast. He noted that Oil World has dropped its 2024 EU canola […] Read more
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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
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
Good demand expected for Canada’s two biggest crops
Glacier FarmMedia – There should be good demand for Canada’s two biggest crops this year, an economist says. Stephen Nicholson, global sector strategist of grains and oilseeds for Rabobank, said the U.S. hard red winter crop is big and getting larger as the weeks tick by. On the surface that sounds like it would be […] Read more
Canola sector gets biofuel shock
U.S. farmers ask gov’t to ban imported feedstocks from biofuel program SASKATOON — A Canadian canola industry executive is worried about a new proposal to keep foreign feedstocks out of the U.S. biofuel industry. Four major farm groups sent a letter to U.S. treasury secretary Janet Yellen and Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda […] 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
Entrepreneurs tout products at Ag in Motion event
Glacier FarmMedia – Entrepreneurs pitched their products at Ag in Motion‘s AgTech Breakfast. Trevor Scherman, co-founder of Combine Settings, was first up to talk about his website, designed to help farmers reduce harvest losses. “Losses at harvest are astronomical,” he said during the event hosted by Startup TNT. Canola farmers lose an average of 1.3 […] Read more
FBN planning expansion of product line
Glacier FarmMedia – Farmers Business Network is expanding its footprint in Canada. The company that is primarily known for retailing agricultural chemicals direct to its farmer-members plans to branch out into providing various other crop inputs, such as farm lending products. “That’s something we do in the U.S. that we don’t do in Canada,” FBN’s […] Read more
Farmers spend money on hail coverage this year
Customers take out an average of $230 per acre and do it earlier than normal, a trend seen since ‘hectic’ 2021’ season
SASKATOON — Farmers have been active buyers of hail insurance the past three years, says an industry official. Interest in the product jumped after a “pretty hectic” 2021 hail season when there was plenty of crop damage, said Scott McQueen, chief operating officer of Palliser Insurance. Growers are also responding to the mounting costs of […] Read more
VIDEO: Western Canadian crops rebound in 2024
Glacier FarmMedia – Glacier FarmMedia’s Bruce Burnett took advantage of the drive to Ag In Motion to cast his experienced eye on the Prairie’s crop prospects this growing season. He found that crop conditions are vastly improved over last year, especially in the southwest Prairies. However, the heat forecast for the end of this week […] Read more
