Crop Management
I recall Roundup herbicide being sold for $60 per litre. It was a celebrated win when the price dropped to $40 and then $30 per litre. This was the 360 grams per litre formulation. It was a déjà vu moment when I began hearing of $16 a litre of Roundup Transorb. A quick conversion to […] Read more
Crop Management
Stopping the nutrient losses at the pril
Calgary company found a way to coat the urea after production, prior to distribution, making it cheaper and convenient
A new nitrification inhibitor that’s cheaper to produce and can be coated onto urea during manufacturing may reduce the cost of protecting nitrogen fertilizer. Calgary-based Soilgenic Technologies produces NitroBlock, based on dicyandiamide technology, that is commonly used in fertilizer formulations as a nitrification inhibitor to slow the release of applied nitrogen into plant available forms. […] Read more
Green growth: Merlo expands its production operations
Italian agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer Merlo wants to produce 10,000 telehandlers and 25,000 attachments per year by 2025. With this goal, Merlo is undergoing significant expansion through its plant in Cuneo, where the company story first began. Merlo enjoys a 15 percent market share in Europe and a 10.5 percent market share worldwide while […] Read more
Lentil acres leave peas in the dust
Lentils have overtaken peas as Canada’s top pulse crop. High lentil prices, low pea yields and poor pea seed quality due to drought are seen as reasons for lentils’ rising popularity. Growers told Statistics Canada they intend to plant 4.49 million acres of lentils this year compared to 3.55 million acres of peas. Lentil acres […] Read more
Seeding already behind in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Agriculture issued its first weekly crop report of 2022 today, showing that only one percent of all crops are in the ground. The report cited cool temperatures and spring snowstorms as holding back many farmers getting into their fields. The overall five-year average at this time of year is five percent complete. This time […] Read more
CDN wheat exports drop, destination disparity
Certain wheat importers have been hit hard by Canada’s short crop in 2021-22, while others haven’t experienced any disruption in supplies. Canadian farmers harvested 19 million tonnes of non-durum wheat last fall, a 34 percent drop from the previous year. That meant some customers were going to be out of luck. China and Indonesia are […] Read more
Brandon college plans food industry diplomas
Canada’s food processing sector desperately needs more workers, especially skilled workers, who have the technical abilities and knowledge to work at plant protein manufacturers and other plants. To help address the worker shortage, Assiniboine Community College in Brandon is developing two diploma programs to train students for jobs in food and beverage processing. ACC is […] Read more
Nutrien bolsters profit forecast on surging fertilizer prices
May 2 (Reuters) – Nutrien Ltd on Monday raised its full-year earnings forecast well above estimates after posting a more than 10-fold jump in first-quarter profit, as the world’s largest fertilizer company benefits strongly from soaring prices of crop nutrients. Prices of essential crop nutrients such as potash and phosphate skyrocketed in the quarter, touching […] Read more
Wheat drops to three-week low as U.S. rains lift production prospects
SINGAPORE/PARIS, May 2 (Reuters) – Chicago wheat futures dropped to a three-week low on Monday, falling for a fourth session, as rains in key growing parts of the U.S. Plains provided much-needed relief to the crop. Corn and soybean prices eased with focus on U.S. planting. “The trigger for the fall seems to have been […] Read more
Chinese wheat better than expected
It turns out that the world’s biggest wheat producer is not having a disastrous year. In March, China’s minister of agriculture told reporters that heavy rainfall and flooding in the fall of 2021 delayed seeding of one-third of the country’s winter wheat. “Not long ago we went to the grassroots to do a survey and […] Read more
