Crop Management
There is one sentence in the 2022 United States Prospective Plantings report that stood out for MarketsFarm analyst Bruce Burnett. It was a comment related to the expectation that growers will plant 47.4 million acres of wheat, a one percent increase over 2021 area. “If realized, this represents the fifth lowest all wheat planted area […] Read more
Crop Management
TSB urges changes to freight rail braking systems
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has issued three recommendations to Transport Canada, aimed at improving the safety of cold weather train operations in the Canadian Rockies and other mountainous regions of Canada. The recommendations stem from a TSB investigation into a fatal freight train derailment that killed three people in February 2019 near Field, […] Read more
Alta. crop insurance rate hike attributed to rising prices
Agricultural insurance rates across the Prairies will be going up this year as a result of higher commodity prices and huge payouts following last year’s drought. Darryl Kay, chief executive officer of the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC), said an increase in AgriInsurance premiums by 10 percent on average is mainly driven by the rise […] Read more
Canola sector upbeat about goals despite last year’s yields
Industry insists that low production experienced in 2021 because of drought will not affect its long-term yield targets
The Canola Council of Canada believes farmers can still reach the group’s lofty 2025 yearly production goal, despite producing only half that amount in 2021. But to reach the 2025 target of 26 million tonnes, it will take a decent year of growing conditions to see how close farmers, the industry and plant breeders have […] Read more
Seaweed moves from ocean to field
Bio-products for crop production are a growing market and companies are developing new and novel ones to meet demand
Formulation isn’t a sexy word in the world of agriculture. For the last few years, much of the attention and passion in the industry has been directed at words like “automation,” “digital farming” and “climate smart” agriculture. But formulation is still a critical piece of ag innovation. Someone has to take a concept, like a […] Read more
Manitoba Ag Days holds Innovation Showcase 2022
The pandemic shut down Manitoba’s Ag Days Live for two consecutive years but it didn’t stop 33 agricultural innovators from eagerly showcasing their inventions through the 2022 Manitoba Ag Days Innovation Showcase. Nor did it stop organizers from picking seven winners. First place in each category wins $1,000 cash from Manitoba Ag Days plus a […] Read more
Autonomous trucks capture market’s imagination
While farm operations consider shifts to autonomous tools, the transportation and distribution industry is adopting them
OXFORD, U.K. (Reuters) — We’d all be whizzing round in robo-taxis by now if Elon Musk had been right. Instead, fully self-driving cars are struggling to get away from the starting grid and some investors are betting that driverless trucks will reach the chequered flag first. Only a year ago, start-ups developing robo-taxis were pulling […] Read more
Historical space and terrestrial data predict soils’ properties
University of Saskatchewan researchers improve bare soil predictive modelling for agriculture in province
Historical soil data combined with satellite imagery is being used to create models that can accurately predict soil properties, including the most precise soil-texture map currently available in Saskatchewan. Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan already created a synthetic bare soil map with data from the Google Earth Engine (GEE) to predict soil properties. However, […] Read more
Wheat tumbles as Ukraine-Russia talks boost ceasefire hopes
PARIS/BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) – Chicago wheat dropped by more than 7 percent on Tuesday as comments by Russia and Ukraine following negotiations in Turkey raised hopes of a ceasefire in a conflict that has disrupted massive grain exports through the Black Sea region. Corn also fell sharply while soybeans turned lower, pressured by a […] Read more
Tight supplies to keep wheat prices high
High wheat prices will stick around in 2022-23 due to a lack of supply-side response, says an analyst. “It just doesn’t appear right now that we’re going to be growing our way out of this high-priced environment in the short-term,” said Will Osnato, senior research analyst with Gro Intelligence. That is because three-quarters of the […] Read more
