Crop Management
There is a dizzying array of market factors that could influence crop prices in the upcoming crop year, but Neil Townsend likes to make things simple. “You can boil 2022-23 down to one variable and that’s U.S. corn yield,” said the FarmLink Marketing Solutions analyst. U.S. farmers have indicated they intend to plant 89.5 million […] Read more
Crop Management
Farm security may need an upgrade
Today’s scale of agriculture and rural demographics mean producers need more ways to watch and defend their assets
The best defence is a good offence is an adage that includes farm security, where neighbours keep an eye out for one another. However, that’s being threatened as the distances between farm yards and bin sites or equipment sheds have swelled. “The problem with rural Saskat-chewan now is those neighbours are not a mile away […] Read more
Verigrain aims to deliver dollars via reliable sampling
When the pandemic dried up sources of capital to launch Verigrain’s sampling and inventory management system, Ken Jackson and his colleagues did a quick pivot to put a high polish on the product instead. “Capital markets just closed, for many months and we could see that was going to be… we needed dollars to move […] Read more
Big farm thinking about tiny agricultural micros
Questions are being asked with the rise of research and product releases for microbiological tools in agriculture
A significant hurdle that manufacturers of microbial-based cropping products must overcome is of their own making. “We’ve created our own problem by overpromising what biologicals are capable of doing, and so we’re living with that right now and it’s a bit of an inflection point where we’re trying to change that image, be it with […] Read more
Producers warned to watch for corn tar spot fungus
Corn tar spot fungus is proving to be a growing threat to corn producers in Canada and the United States. The fungus was first detected in Mexico in 1904, spread throughout Central and South America then made its way into Illinois and Indiana in 2015. It spread across the U.S. corn-growing region and arrived in […] Read more
Hope remains for Ukrainian grain export season
Ukraine’s 2022-23 crop production is going to be reduced but with ample carryover, the country could have decent volumes to ship, says an analyst from the war-torn country. The Ukrainian government estimates farmers will plant 33.1 million acres of spring crops by April 1, which would be 8.4 million acres fewer than last year. But […] Read more
Small, medium, large: three options for farmland carbon capture
Canadian farmland could sequester 72.7 million tonnes of carbon if more producers adopted beneficial practices like cover crops, applying compost and reducing tillage, says a new report from the Soil Conservation Council of Canada and the Compost Council of Canada. The report, released April 5, says there are three possible scenarios for storing carbon in […] Read more
Wheat market outlook tied to war developments
Wheat markets are in for a rude awakening when the hostilities in Ukraine come to an end, according to a Black Sea grain analyst. “When there is a ceasefire I think the reversal will be quite substantial,” SovEcon managing director Andrey Sizov said in a recent webinar. He believes world wheat prices should be around […] Read more
China books biggest deal for U.S. corn since May 2021
CHICAGO, April 4 (Reuters) – Chinese buyers bought 1.084 million tonnes of U.S. corn, their biggest purchase of U.S. grain since May 2021, the U.S. government said on Monday. The deal comes as shipments from Ukraine, the world’s fourth biggest exporter of corn, are snarled following Russia’s invasion. China had been a big buyer of […] Read more
Kabuli chickpea prices on the rise
Kabuli chickpea prices have rapidly escalated in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Colin Young, owner of Mid-West Grain Ltd., a chickpea processor near Moose Jaw, Sask., said Russia had been keeping kabuli prices in check early in the 2021-22 campaign. “When we were offering chickpeas at $1,300 per tonne Russia was in there […] Read more
