Crop Management
The November soybean futures contract jumped US$74.25 per tonne on June 30, the day the report was released, while the December corn futures contract fell $33.75.
Crop Management
Lentil shipments to Turkey expected to shrink
Soaring interest rates and a bigger crop will likely dampen the country’s appetite for imported lentils this year.
EPA’s renewable fuel rule called ‘missed opportunity’
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tapped the brakes on the renewable diesel sector and the oilseed industry that feeds it, say analysts and officials. In its final rule on renewable fuel obligations, the EPA made very modest changes to its disappointing proposed rule issued on Dec. 1, 2022. It kept the 2023 biomass-based diesel […] Read more
Float like a butterfly cut like a Honey Bee
Company updates its flex header so that it’s better equipped when it comes time to harvest bushy crops
Honey Bee Manufacturing’s Air Flex lineup uses gauge wheels on each side of the feeder house that hold most of the header’s weight in flex mode, and all of its weight in rigid mode.
System helps drive grain cart tractor remotely
3D printed hardware overlays a tractor’s armrest controls and allows remote operation with augers, baggers and extractors
The original RCFarmArm is wireless, yet it enables the operator to remotely control the r.p.m., hydraulics, p.t.o., and the key from outside the cab.
Machine vision drives desktop grain sampler
Regina — A desktop grain tester that uses machine vision to determine grain grades was on display at a recent farm show in Regina. “We’re building a unit that will go on the combine and will be able to grade grain quality in real time as you harvest. But as part of the journey, we’ve […] Read more
Canola, wheat big winners in seeding report
Lentils might be the biggest surprise, plunging to 3.67 million acres, a 7.7 percent drop from March expectations and well below the lowest trade forecast. It is the smallest lentil acreage since 2014.
Oat growers reminded of lambda-cy restrictions
Grain Millers, which operates an oat mill in Yorkton, Sask., is reminding growers to not use lambda-cyhalothrin on oats this summer. Farmers who have production contracts with Grain Millers, or hope to sell oats to the company this year, cannot use the insecticide on their oat crop. “It has been brought to our attention by […] Read more
Argentine bean crop suffers amid fourth year of drought
Production losses could be severe for one of Canada’s main competitors as a lack of rain and potential frost risk threaten crops.
Canada imports high levels of grain from U.S.
Imports are down 29 percent from last year through the first eight months of 2022-23, but they remain at high levels.
