Crop Management
Are the risks associated with planting before temperatures can support a crop worth potential benefits?
When early seeding works it means early harvest and reduced odds of frost damage in the fall, hail and other risk factors. If ultra-early seeding works, it can also provide a grade benefit.
Crop Management
Dormant: fall-seeded winter crops
University of Alberta researcher Graham Collier explains, “In dormant seeding you want the ground cold as possible, so seed sits there without germinating until the following spring. You don’t want the crop to get snow right away because that might insulate the soil and maintain too much heat. If you get germination in the fall, that crop will die. You have a very narrow window of opportunity.
Three years ultra-early on-farm experience
“I think it’s definitely a risk. But I think the upside outweighs the downside, especially in our country out here at Consort (eastern Alberta),” said Farley.
Gene family stimulates longer wheat roots
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered that the right number of copies of a specific group of genes called OPRlll can stimulate longer wheat root growth, offering opportunities for farmers to grow healthier crops with greater yields, despite climate variables.
U.S. EPA finalizes biofuel blending mandate
Under the December proposal, oil refiners would be required to add 20.82 billion gallons of biofuels to their fuel in 2023, 21.87 billion gallons in 2024, and 22.68 billion gallons in 2025.
Russian wheat exports set torrid pace this year
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's permanent representative to the United Nations, recently told a meeting of the UN Security Council that Russia is blackmailing the world by disrupting the Black Sea Grain Initiative and pretending to suffer from its existence, while in fact its grain exports are soaring.
High oleic soybeans come to Canada
Sevita plans to release more high-oleic varieties in the future to take advantage of the massive global market for vegetable oils.
Corn prices fall as supplies expected to increase
"It looks like we're heading back to the environment where corn supplies are going to be easily available again," said DTN lead analyst Todd Hultman. "Instead of $6 prices, we're going to be looking at prices below $5."
Territorial changes complicate Ukrainian crop estimates
Are the crops in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine considered the domain of Ukraine or Russia?
Italy hungry for Canadian durum
Leif Carlson, director of market intelligence and trade policy with Cereals Canada, said the world's biggest pasta exporter chews through a lot of the grain every year.
